Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What...
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
John Burgess discussed his new CIMA report, Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure, which examines the strengths and shortcomings of media freedom indexes-in particular IREX's Media Sustainability Index, Freedom House's Freedom of the Press, and Reporters Without Borders' Press Freedom Index- and offers recommendations to improve these and other studies.
FIFTEEN YEARS LATER: Forward or Backward in the Balkans?
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Two lively panels: one examining what has happened over the past 15 years in terms of transitional justice in the Balkans, and the other discussing the challenges ahead for Bosnia’s democratic transition.
Democracy Service Medal Presentation to the Honorable Vin...
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
The National Endowment for Democracy honored its former Chairman Vin Weber with the presentation of the Democracy Service Medal at a Capitol Hill ceremony on July 20, 2010.
Community of Democracies Tenth Anniversary
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
In July, 2010, 87 official delegations and more than 200 civil society activists from around the world gathered in Krakow, Poland to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Community of Democracies (CD), recommit to the principles of its Warsaw Declaration, and to discuss improving and expanding its work. Attendees included US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałesa.
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