09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Sponsored by: NED
NED honored three organizations working tirelessly to strengthen civil society in Sudan with the 2020 Democracy Award.
12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Glenn Tiffert discussed his report "Compromising the Knowledge Economy: Authoritarian Challenges to Intellectual Inquiry," which explores how authoritarian regimes target the academic, publishing, and think tank sectors of open societies.
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow Dolgion Aldar illustrated what is at stake thirty years after Mongolia’s democratic revolution in 1990 and examined whether Mongolia can address present challenges and reaffirm its commitment to democracy.