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FacebookNovember 8th, 2011
The kingdom of paradox
ARD Op-ed: Nieman ReportsVisiting Scholar Ahmed Benchemsi discusses the seemingly paradoxic relationship between the independent media and the Moroccan government in two pieces for Harvard's Nieman Reports. Read more »
CDDRL now accepting applications for Pre and Postdoctoral Fellowship
AnnouncementThe Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law is currently accepting applications from pre-doctoral students at the write-up stage and from new postdoctoral scholars working in any of the four program areas of democracy, development, evaluating the efficacy of democracy promotion, and rule of law. Applicants working at the intersection of two or more of these issue areas will receive preferential consideration. Read more »
A new mandate for NATO?
in the newsVisiting Researcher Henrik Larsen writes about NATO's recent intervention in Libya, which marked the first time in history that the Alliance engaged in regime change. In a policy brief for the Danish Institute for International Studies, Larsen emphasizes the fact that NATO is overstepping its original security mandate by assuming a more political role in the new world order. Read more »
November 3rd, 2011
Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program recruitment opens
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program NewsThe Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program is recruiting rising leaders from around the world to join the 2012 program scheduled for July 22-August 10 at Stanford University. Read more »
Kim states technology enables the right to education
Program on Liberation Technology NewsPaul Kim, the assistant dean for technology & CTO at Stanford University's School of Education, led the Nov. 3 Liberation Technology Seminar Series on “Global Inequalities, Achievement Gaps, and Mobile Innovations.” Kim has been reconceptualizing the whole education system, with a particular focus on the education of children in deprived areas. 
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November 1st, 2011
Stanford's Weinstein reflects on shaping Obama's foreign policy
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, CISAC in the newsAfter two years as President Barack Obama’s director for development and democracy at the National Security Council, Jeremy Weinstein is back at Stanford as an associate professor of political science. Read more »
Local teaching, global thinking
PHR in the news: Stanford Daily on November 3, 2011The Stanford Human Rights Education Initiative in partnership with the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education, the Program on Human Rights, the School of Education and the Division of International Comparative and Area Studies is working with community college educators to create a human rights curriculum that supports and promotes awareness among students about international issues. Read more »
October 31st, 2011
LibTech Program is building an interactive database of the world's constitutions
Program on Liberation Technology NewsThe Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law is building a ‘Constitution Explorer’ website that will host a structured database of constitutions to enable people to compare and contrast other countries' constitutions as they undergo their own national projects for constitutional change. Read more »
October 28th, 2011
Human Rights Watch comes to Stanford
PHR AnnouncementThe Program on Human Rights at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) is hosting the Human Rights Watch 2011 Voices for Justice honorees at a special event at Stanford University on November 18, 2011. This year's honorees —Consuelo Morales and Sussan Tahmasebi— will discuss their work defending human rights on the front lines in Mexico and Iran. Read more »
Weighing in on Qaddafi's death
ARD in the news: Stanford Daily on October 27, 2011Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) declared the liberation of Libya on Oct. 23 following the Oct. 20 capture and death of military dictator Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi. Col. Qaddafi’s death marks the end of Libya’s six-month civil war, which was preceded by mass protests starting February of this year. Read more »
October 27th, 2011
Gregory and Nunez discuss the use of video cameras in human rights work
Program on Liberation Technology NewsSam Gregory, program director at WITNESS
and Bryan Nunez, technology manager at Witness, delivered the Oct. 27 Liberation Technology seminar entitled, “Cameras Everywhere: Meeting the Challenges at the intersection of Human Rights, Video and Technology.” Video available
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October 20th, 2011
What’s next for Libya after Qaddafi’s death?
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, ARD NewsThe killing of Muammar Qadaffi marks an end to one of the most dramatic chapters of the Arab Spring. But what follows after the death of a dictator who has held power for 42 years? Read more »
Srinivasan speaks to using social media to create connections
Program on Liberation Technology NewsRamesh Srinivasan, assistant professor at UCLA in design and media/information studies, delivered the Oct. 20 Liberation Technology seminar. Video available
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October 17th, 2011
American Political Dysfunction
CDDRL, FSI Stanford Op-ed: The American InterestIn an article for the November/December 2011 issue of The American Interest, Francis Fukuyama analyzes the roots of dysfunction that have led to the polarization of the American political system. From the design of the U.S. Constitution curbing the power of central government to the entrenchment of powerful interest groups, Fukuyama suggests that institutional changes will need to take place to break the paralysis that characterizes the U.S. political system. 
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Morocco: A dictatorship in disguise
ARD in the news: The Stanford Daily on October 14, 2011On October 13, Ahmed Benchemsi opened the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law's weekly seminar series for the 2011-12 academic year with a rousing presentation on the illusion of democracy in Morocco. Benchemsi a Moroccan journalist and visiting scholar with the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, provided an overview of the Moroccan monarchy's calculating tactics to insulate itself from the surrounding events of the Arab Spring. Read more »
An interview with Prince Moulay Hicham
ARD in the news: Le DébatPrince Moulay Hicham ben Abdallah was interviewed in the September/October issue of the French journal Le Débat, providing his unique insight on the Arab Spring events as a member of the Moroccan royal family and scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law. Read more »
October 14th, 2011
Cuéllar, Magaloni on Iranian assassination plot and link to Mexican cartels
FSI Stanford, CDDRL, Program on Poverty and Governance NewsAs if the alleged Iranian plan to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. wasn’t strange and sinister enough, it offered an outlandish twist: American officials say the Iranian plotters wanted to hire a Mexican drug cartel to carry out the murder. FSI’s Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Beatriz Magaloni discuss the developing events. Read more »
Marques to lead Program on Human Rights
PHR in the newsNadejda Marques joined the Program on Human Rights (PHR) at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law in September 2011. Her mandate is to help the PHR launch a new research initiative on human trafficking, enhance current programming, and organize human rights events on campus. On October 6, The Stanford Daily published an article announcing Marques' arrival to Stanford from the Harvard School of Public Health, touching on the personal journey that inspired her passion and conviction in human rights. Read more »
Applications for summer fellowships open
PHR AnnouncementThe Program on Human Rights at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), together with the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society are offering four summer fellowships in human rights for 2012. The application period has now opened to talented Stanford undergraduates interested in working for organizations, government agencies, NGOs or international organizations that promote or defend human rights. The deadline to apply is December 9, 2011. Read more »
October 13th, 2011
Stern discusses strengthening grassroots in Africa providing the “last mile”
Program on Liberation Technology NewsIn the October 13 seminar entitled, "The Last Mile: Grassroots Development and Technology in Africa” Joshua Stern, executive director of Envaya, and Jesse Young, CTO of Envaya, shared their insights into how software could be used to strengthen grassroots development in Africa. Video available
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October 8th, 2011
Fall Newsletter 2011
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October 7th, 2011
Open Government Partnership launched at the United Nations
in the news: The Economist on October 8, 2011The Open Government Partnership (OGP) officially debuted at the United Nations in September. This global network comprised of reform-minded governments and NGOs sets new standards for government openness and transparency. Professor Jeremy Weinstein, faculty member at CDDRL, was instrumental in developing OGP while serving in the Obama administration as the Director of Democracy. On October 8, The Economist featured a piece on the OGP initiative discussing the merits and drawbacks of this new anti-corruption club. Read more »
Recommendations for a peaceful outcome
in the news: Afrik News on October 4, 2011In a piece for Afrik News, Landry Signé a Banting Fellow at CDDRL writes about Cameroon's upcoming election on October 9 and the prospects for a peaceful outcome. Signé argues that Cameroon has remained an anchor of stability in the Central African Region and disputed elections could lead to instability similar to the experience in Cote d'Ivoire. With a divided opposition competing against the 29-year rule of President Paul Biya, Signé emphasizes the importance of free, fair, and transparent elections monitored by outside observers to mitigate the risk of post-election conflict.
Great soul Gandhi: activist or entrepreneur?
in the news: The Huffington Post on October 4, 2011On the 142nd anniversary of the birth of Gandhi, Kavita Ramdas honors the social activist and great humanitarian by reflecting on the true definition of social entrepreneurship. In a piece for the "Huffington Post," Ramdas the newly appointed executive director of the Program on Social Entrepreneurship at CDDRL, wonders why a distinction is so clearly made between social activists and entrepreneurs. With such an emphasis placed on the entrepreneur's ability to generate new products, Ramdas argues that this new model underestimates the power of social movements and collective action to transform history.
October 6th, 2011
McLaughlin speaks on the expansion of the internet and its risks
Program on Liberation Technology NewsAndrew McLaughlin, a lecturer at the Stanford Law School and the executive director of the Creative Commons delivered the inaugural lecture for the fall season of the Liberation Technology Seminar Series at the Center on Democracy, Develpoment and Rule of Law. Video available
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