2017 Democracy Award
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
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.
"Sharp Power": Rising Authoritarian Influence
11:00 AM - 02:30 PM
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.
14th Annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture: The Populist...
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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.
The Case of Roma in Slovakia
09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
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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