06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Sponsored by: The Albert Shanker Institute,The American Federation of Teachers
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Developmental Studies and Professor of Political Sociology, The American University, Cairo, gave a Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on heading towards Islamic democracies
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Retiring NED Vice Chairman Thomas R. Donahue was honored by the Endowment with the presentation of the Democracy Service Medal on March 16, 2006.
06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Sponsored by: The Albert Shanker Institute,The American Federation of Teachers
In his talk, Dr. Fukuyama explored the challenges faced by the liberal democracies of Western Europe, Canada, and the United States in integrating Muslim immigrants. In particular, he sought to explain why the model of multiculturalism that originated in Canada and has been reasonably successful there is increasingly regarded as a failure in countries like the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
