Mr. Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy, was the featured speaker at the 2011 John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture on March 1, 2011. Gershman addressed the topic "Democracy's New Moment: A Forward Strategy for Advancing Freedom in the World".

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Mauritian scholar and democracy activist Dr. Roukaya Kasenally examined the “picture-perfect model” of Mauritius and demonstrated the need to go beyond the numerical indicators that have consistently placed the small island as the best performer in Africa.

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The International Forum for Democratic Studies and the Europe Program of the National Endowment for Democracy brought together academic experts on comparative constitutional design with legal and country specialists to discuss how Bosnia and Herzegovina can complete its democratic transition and achieve its Euro-Atlantic aspirations.

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J. Aloysius Toe, Founder of the Foundation for Human Rights and Democracy in Liberia, discussed corruption, justice, and the role of the international community in anticipation of the November 2011 election.

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In his presentation, Mr. Dayo Aiyetan, an accomplished Nigerian investigative journalist, examined the threat posed by corruption to Nigerian democracy and explored the role that new models of watchdog journalism, particularly non-profit centers and other research organizations, can play in reversing this troubling trend.

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Peter Cary, a veteran journalist with extensive experience reporting about the U.S. military, presented a summary of his report for CIMA, The Pentagon, Information Operations, and Media Development, and examined DoD's evolving role in media development worldwide.

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Over 20 scholars from Latin America, Africa, Asia, postcommunist Europe, and the United States to discuss how political clientelism affects social policy and the quality of democracy in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, India, postcommunist Europe, and Africa.

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The chairman of NED grantee Database Center for North Korea Human Rights (NKDB) participated in a seminar at Johns Hopkins SAIS examining the findings of the 2010 White Paper on North Korean Human Rights, which provided systematically researched and analyzed data on human rights violations in North Korea.

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The panel discussed growing international unease over the direction of press freedom in Ukraine, particularly reversals of press freedom under Victor Yanukovych.

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Experts discussed the various ways by which governments in Latin America are using financial, legal, and administrative pressures to influence media coverage.

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