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FacebookJanuary 17th, 2012
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 12th, 2012
Rebecca MacKinnon on how the Internet should be structured and governed
Program on Liberation Technology NewsRebecca MacKinnon, the Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, delivered the inaugural lecture for the Liberation Technology Seminar Series on Jan. 12 on the topic of Internet freedom and governance. 
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January 6th, 2012
Stanford's Fukuyama on the decline of the middle class
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, Governance Project Op-edIn 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, Governance Project 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: Evgeny 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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November 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. Video available
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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 »
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