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.
Azerbaijan: Being More Than a Number
Freedom of speech around the world has come under renewed assault, and in Azerbaijan the government has been particularly aggressive in policing online expression. One NED grantee’s YouTube video satire has...
Forward or Backward in the Balkans?
Fifteen years after the genocide at Srebrenica, NED grantees Nataša Kandić of the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade and Anisa Sućeska-Vekić of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Sarajevo speak...
Can Anyone Hear Us? Voices from the 2009 Unrest in Urumchi
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
In advance of the one-year anniversary of the Urumchi unrest, analysts assessed the causes of the transformation of peaceful demonstrations into deadly inter-ethnic violence, government policy responses to the unrest, the effect of those policies on Uyghur and Han populations in Xinjiang, and the likely outcomes of the May 2010 Xinjiang Work Conference hosted by Chinese President Hu Jintao.
2010 Democracy Award
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
This half-day conference featured Senators Ted Kaufman and John McCain, as well as panel presentations on Lessons from Other Transitions to Democracy and The Road Ahead - Strategic Challenges for the Democratic Movement in Iran.
The Promise of Rural Journalism in Guatemala’s Fragile...
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Based in Guatemala as a journalism trainer for much of the past seven years, María Martin discussed challenges and opportunities facing rural media in the country.
Democracy in East Asia: An Elephant’s Graveyard?
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
In his presentation, Dr. Benjamin Reilly explained the competing trends of democratic reform and democratic pushback across Northeast and Southeast Asia, and addressed the broader implications of this distinctive process of democratization in East Asia.
Agenda: One Year Later: Prospects for a Democratic Transition in Iran
Opening Statements Senator Ted Kaufman (see video/read remarks) Senator John McCain (see video/read remarks) Panel I: Lessons from Other Transitions to Democracy Presenters Larry Diamond, Stanford...
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