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 Program Events

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Fall Events:

November 2009


November 4th
Open House for the M.A. Program in Democracy & Governance
5:30 pm
Mortara Center for International Studies
36th and N Streets, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
R.S.V.P. to Sarah Jackson at sij3@georgetown.edu

October 2009


October 15th
Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World
Democracy & Governance Co-Director Professor Daniel Brumberg and Dina Shehata discuss their latest edited volume, Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World, in which contributors seek to examine the challenges and opportunities for U.S. engagement that escalating identity conflicts within Muslim-majority states pose for both the Muslim world and for the West.
Time: 10 am to 11:30 am
Where: ICC 662

October 21st
Avi Melamed, independent security analyst in Israel on Middle East affairs, on The Minaret and the Satellite Dish: Opportunities and Challenges for Israel in a Changing Muslim World.
Presented by the Embassy of the State of Israel and CDACS.
Time: 12:00 to 1:30 pm
Where: MSFS Conference Room, 7th Floor
Georgetown University Intercultural Center
37th & O Streets, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20057

September 2009


September 10th
Careers in Democracy Assistance
a panel featuring experts from USAID, Democracy International and Freedom House


Past Events

January 2009

Wednesday, January 30
Lunch with a Policymaker: Carl Gershman, National Endowment for Democracy

February

Monday, February 11
Steve Heydemann, United States Institute of Peace, with Daniel Brumberg and Samer Shehata
"Upgrading Authoritarianism in the Middle East"

Wednesday, February 20
Arch Puddington, Freedom House
"Freedom in the World"

Friday, February 22
Patrick Bond, Center for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
"Kyoto's Civil Society Critics: The Debate over Market Solutions to Climate Change"

March

Wednesday, March 12
Marek Skovajsa, CDACS Visiting Fellow and Fulbright Scholar

Tuesday, March 18
Lunch with a Policymaker: Eric Goldstein, Human Rights Watch

Thursday, March 27
Coffee with a Policymaker:  Ammar Abdulhamid, Thwara Project

April

Thursday, April 2
Today's American:  How Free?
a half-day conference sponsored by Freedom House and the Forum for the Study of Democracy and Autocracy

Monday, April 7
General Juan Emilio Cheyre
"The Military and Democracy -- Lessons from the Case of Chile"

Thursday, April 10
Ammar Abdulhamid
"Syria in Transition: Analysis of the Democratic Opposition Movement and Prospects for Change"

Thursday, April 24
Juan Carlos Navarro, Inter-American Development Bank
"Education and Democracy"

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