January 31st, 2012

Trafficking victim turns personal story into powerful force for advocacy

Roni 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 »

December 8th, 2011

Klingner discusses Martus, a free and open source software program

Jeff 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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November 3rd, 2011

Kim states technology enables the right to education

Paul 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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October 20th, 2011

Srinivasan speaks to using social media to create connections

Ramesh Srinivasan, assistant professor at UCLA in design and media/information studies, delivered the Oct. 20 Liberation Technology seminar. Video available
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June 14th, 2011

The Challenge of Political Order

In an interview about his new book, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, FSI Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow Francis Fukuyama tells Matthew Shaffer of the National Review Online, "This really started with a practical concern I had after dealing with failed states and nation-building issues in the wake of September 11 and our nation-building efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. It seemed to me that the United States in particular didn’t appreciate the difficulty of this kind of activity, because we didn’t adequately understand how hard it was to establish institutions."

• » National Review: The Difficulty of Political Order

May 18th, 2011

Asia Foundation president suggests far-ranging impacts of uprisings

"As with the collapse of the Berlin Wall more than two decades ago, the reverberations of the 'Arab Awakening' are being felt well beyond the Middle East," said Asia Foundation president David D. Arnold during his May 4 talk at Stanford about the recent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East. He suggested that for countries in Asia and other parts of the world, the uprisings are a reminder that a strong economy is not a replacement for good governance and that democracy can take place anywhere in the world. In Asia, the Asia Foundation blog, provides an overview of Arnold's talk supplemented by essays, including "Worlds at Stake in Arab Reform" by Southeast Asia Forum director Donald Emmerson and "The 'Libya Model' and What’s Next in North Korea" and "Springtimes of Political Reform: Looking to East Asia for Clues to Democratic Consolidation" by former Pantech Fellow Scott Snyder. The full audio of Arnold's Stanford talk is now available online.

• » The Arab Awakening: Governance Lessons for Asia and Beyond
  
• » Stanford Daily: Arnold explains the Arab Awakening
• » In Asia: The Arab Awakening: Governance lessons for Asia and beyond
• » In Asia: Worlds at stake in Arab reform
• » In Asia: Springtimes of political reform: Looking to East Asia for clues to democratic consolidation
• » In Asia: The 'Libya model' and what's next in North Korea

April 20th, 2011

Fukuyama debuts latest book to Stanford community

On April 11, the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) hosted an event to celebrate the release of Francis Fukuyama's latest book, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. The occasion drew an audience of over 100 faculty, students, and members of the community, who were eager to hear Fukuyama introduce the first volume of this "magnum opus," which traces the history of the development of political institutions through the eighteenth century. Fukuyama was joined by two Stanford faculty members to provide commentary on the book; Ian Morris, Professor of Classics and History, and Barry Weingast, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute. Audio & Video transcripts available flyer available
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