NED hosted a discussion of recent developments featuring the insights of key policy makers and experts in U.S. – DPRK relations, as well as the recipients of NED’s 2018 Democracy Award. These activists discussed how exposure to and engagement with the outside world is changing North Korea from the inside, and what that change means for the future of North Korea and its people.

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The National Endowment for Democracy’s 2018 Democracy Award honored the civil society movement for human rights and democracy in North Korea by recognizing the work of four organizations.

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The National Endowment for Democracy presented a screening of the documentary film "Mustafa", and hosted a conversation with the film's subject and human rights activist, Mustafa Dzhemilev. Following the screening, Mustafa Dzhemilev was awarded the Democracy Service Medal.

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The National Endowment for Democracy is pleased to join with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Ferencz International Justice Initiative in cosponsoring "Promoting Justice for Mass Atrocities."

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The National Endowment for Democracy honored activists from Afghanistan, Angola, Guatemala, Malaysia, and Ukraine with 2017 Democracy Award. Speaker Paul Ryan and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi made remarks at the presentation on June 7th.

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Authors of the report, "Sharp Power": Rising Authoritarian Influence, discussed how authoritarian regimes employ "sharp" influence techniques to manipulate or distort the information that reaches target audiences, and how democracies can respond to these methods.

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William Galston, the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and Senior Fellow, presented the 14th annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World at the Embassy of Canada.

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Since 2003, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) has engaged Roma political representatives, civic leaders, and grassroots activists across Central Europe and the Balkans in developing their skills to participate in the political process as equal citizens.

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