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FacebookFebruary 9th, 2012
Negotiating Assad's final exit
CDDRL, FSI Stanford Op-edIn an article for The New Republic's online symposium 'What Should the United States Do About Syria,' Larry Diamond argues that multilateral engagement is the best approach to depose President Bashar al-Assad. Read more »
February 8th, 2012
ARD scholar Elias Muhanna nominated for Next Century Foundation award
ARD NewsThe Program on Arab Reform and Democracy scholar Elias Muhanna, the blogger behind qifanabki.com, was nominated for a special award for an outstanding contribution to new media by the Next Century Foundation. Read more »
February 4th, 2012
Are the days of web surfing over?
Program on Liberation Technology Op-edIn an opinion piece for The New York Times on Feb. 4, Evgeny Morozov declares the days of cyberspace exploration over, snuffed out by the world of social media and search engine optimization. Read more »
February 2nd, 2012
Make Parliament bigger, says popular blogger Elias Muhanna
ARD in the news: The Daily Star on February 2, 2012Arab Reform and Democracy scholar Elias Muhanna spoke with The Daily Star, a Beirut-based newspaper, about the idea of introducing a bicameral legislature to Lebanon. Muhanna commented on what this would mean for the political system at large and how far it would go in repairing the deep governance issues that have divided the Lebanese polity for decades. Read more »
February 1st, 2012
Stanford democracy experts examine Asia, Middle East
CDDRL, FSI Stanford in the newsCDDRL scholars Larry Diamond, Francis Fukuyama, and Ahmed Benchemsi published articles in the January issue of the Journal of Democracy examining the state of democratic development in two pivotal regions – Asia and the Middle East. Read more »
January 31st, 2012
Trafficking victim turns personal story into powerful force for advocacy
PHR NewsRoni Hong, a human trafficking survivor and founder of the Tronie Foundation presented her testimony at the third installment of the Sanela Diana Jenkins International Speaker Series. Read more »
January 24th, 2012
Madeline Rees speaks out against human trafficking abuses within the UN system
PHR NewsMadeline Rees, former U.N. high commissioner for human rights in Bosnia and secretary general for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom spoke at the second installment of the Sanela Diana Jenkins International Speaker Series on human rights abuse during peacekeeping operations and how to improve accountability. Read more »
January 23rd, 2012
Stanford scholars reflect on Arab Spring
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, ARD NewsA year after the Egyptian uprising, five scholars talk about democracy in the Middle East, how lives have changed in the Arab world, and what the U.S. has learned from the Arab Spring. Read more »
January 19th, 2012
Poverty and Governance program launches policy brief series
Program on Poverty and Governance AnnouncementThe Program on Poverty and Governance at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law is proud to announce the launch of its inaugural policy brief series. Read more »
January 17th, 2012
Leading trafficking experts inaugurate speakers series
PHR NewsBradley Myles, executive director and CEO of Polaris, and Helga Konrad, OSCE special representative on combating trafficking in human beings inaugurated the 2012 Program on Human Rights Sanela Diana Jenkins International Speaker Series. Read more »
Lebanon, by the Numbers
ARD Op-ed: New York Times Latitude blog on January 17, 2012Lebanon’s peculiar brand of democracy, dysfunctional and widely unpopular, is a perennial source of national vexation, debated over Sunday lunches and in the press. Read more »
January 6th, 2012
Stanford's Fukuyama on the decline of the middle class
CDDRL, FSI Stanford in the newsIn an article for the Jan./Feb. issue of Foreign Affairs, Francis Fukuyama traces the rise of liberal democracy through the 20th century, which led to the growth of the middle class. Read more »
January 1st, 2012
LibTech seminar series, winter quarter
Program on Liberation Technology NewsThe Liberation Technology Seminar Series for the winter quarter features an impressive array of speakers. Read more »
December 17th, 2011
Stanford's McFaul is next ambassador to Russia
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, CISAC NewsMichael McFaul, a senior fellow at FSI and President Obama's top Russia advisor, will be Washington's chief diplomat in Moscow. Read more »
December 13th, 2011
Change in Russia is unlikely
CDDRL, FSI Stanford in the newsRussian protesters are clamoring for political change, but Kathryn Stoner-Weiss says they're not likely to get it. The CDDRL deputy director argues in The New York Times and on National Public Radio that Russians can expect Vladimir Putin to be their president. Read more »
December 12th, 2011
Safadi-Stanford Initiative convenes Washington policymakers
ARD NewsOn December 6, the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law together with the Safadi Foundation USA inaugurated the Safadi-Stanford Initiative for Policy Innovation (SSIPI) at a conference hosted by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Read more »
December 8th, 2011
Q&A: Stanford’s Fukuyama on European debt crisis
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsEuropean leaders converged in Brussels to figure a way out of a worsening debt crisis and agreed to greater financial oversight and centralization. England refuses to go along with the plan, and Stanford political scientist Francis Fukuyama says he expects some countries will start bailing out of the eurozone. 
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A warning shot for Putin
CDDRL, FSI Stanford Op-edWhile Russia's recent parliamentary elections have been mired in accusations of fraud, the electoral results convey a loss for Vladimir Putin's long-standing party. CDDRL Deputy Director Kathryn Stoner-Weiss argues in a piece for Foreign Affairs that the parliamentary results have not diminished the Kremlin's grip on power, and the "super" presidency will continue to reign supreme. Read more »
Klingner discusses Martus, a free and open source software program
Program on Liberation Technology NewsJeff Klingner, computer science consultant at Benetech, delivered Dec. 8 Liberation Technology Seminar on the topic of collecting, protecting, and analyzing human rights data. Video available
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December 6th, 2011
Moulay Hicham speaks to Morocco's attempt at reform
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, ARD in the newsWhile Morocco has not witnessed the same degree of revolutionary upheaval as it's North African neighbors, a constitutional referendum this summer ushered in a series of reforms to address popular pressure from the street. CDDRL Consulting Professor Hicham Ben Abdallah was interviewed in the weekly French magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur where he commented on the recent parliamentary election, the victory of the Justice and Development Party and what this means for the future of democracy in the kingdom. Read more »
December 1st, 2011
Two approaches to debates on technology and democracy: Evgany Morozov
Program on Liberation Technology NewsOn Dec. 1, Evgeny Morozov visiting scholar at CDDRL's Program on Liberation Technology delivered a seminar on the current state of the Internet and the democracy debate after the Arab Spring. Video available
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November 22nd, 2011
Stanford researchers fight human trafficking
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, PHR NewsHuman trafficking is a global phenomenon that each year forces millions into lives as prostitutes, laborers, child soldiers, and domestic servants. Traffickers prey on the weak and vulnerable, targeting young victims with promises of a better life. Read more »
Researchers explore potential solutions to Mexican crime and violence
CISAC, FSI Stanford, CDDRL, Program on Poverty and Governance AnnouncementScholars and policymakers from around the world gathered at Stanford in October for a two-day conference that examined, from a comparative perspective, issues in violence, crime, and governance in Mexico. An executive summary of the program and a series of papers presented there highlight the causes of these challenges and explore some potential solutions. 
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November 17th, 2011
d.school uses mobile technology for social issues in Kenya
Program on Liberation Technology NewsThe November 17 Liberation Technology Seminar was co-hosted by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), a nonpartisan economic policy research organization that unites remarkable economic talent from all parts of Stanford University. This seminar featured four student-led design projects that were created in the Designing Liberation Technologies course taught each spring at Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) by professors' Josh Cohen and Terry Winograd. Read more »
November 10th, 2011
O’Brien aims at protecting online journalists
Program on Liberation Technology NewsDanny O'Brien led the Nov. 10 Liberation Technology seminar on the topic, “Reports from the Bleeding Edge: What Journalism in Syria, China and Iran tell us about Silicon Valley's Future”. O'Brien is the Internet Advocacy Coordinator at Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which was founded in New York in 1981 with the aim of defending individual journalists worldwide. Video available
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