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Dictators and Demonstrators:
Sharing Strategies on Repression and Reform
A Graduate Student and Practitioner Symposium
Presented By
The Center for Democracy and Civil Society at Georgetown University
In Cooperation With
Freedom House & the Forum for the Study of Democracy
December 10th, 2009
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Council on Foreign Relations
1777 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006
From Rangoon to Tehran, demonstrators continually adopt new strategies and technologies in their struggles against oppressive regimes. However, demonstrators are not the only ones adapting. In an effort to preempt demonstrators, authoritarians manage access to technologies, cooperate in regional organizations, and learn from each other. Contending dictators and demonstrators are aware of this competitive learning, but we know little about which side is more adaptable and under what conditions.
Demonstrators: 10:00a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Commentator: Thomas O. Melia, Deputy Executive Director, Freedom House
Gabrielle Bardall, International Foundation for Electoral Systems
Kilic Kanat, Department of Political Science, Syracuse University
Laura Mottaz, Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy
J. Hunter Price, Department of Political Science, Trinity University
Dictators: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Commentator: Daniel Brumberg, Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgetown University and Acting Director of the Muslim World Initiative at the US Institute for Peace.
Lauren Albright, Department of Political Science, Temple University
Sheena Chestnut, Department of Political Science, Harvard University
Jeanne Elone, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Brandon Yonder, National Endowment for Democracy
Refreshments will be served
RSVP by December 8 to cdacsconference@gmail.com
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