Ottawa Conference on Democracy Promotion

On February 25–26, the Cen-tre for the Study of Democracy atQueensUniversity(Kingston,Ontar-io)andtheFriedrichEbertFounda-tionhostedaconferenceinOttawa,Canada, entitled “Creating Demo-cratic Value: Evaluating Efforts toPromoteDemocracyAbroad.”Theattendeesdiscussedapproaches,ex-periences,andchallengesrelatedtodemocracyassistance.ThespeakersincludedGeorgePerlin(founderoftheCentrefortheStudyofDemoc-racy),PeterBurnell(professorattheUniversity ofWarwick and found-ingeditorofDemocratization),andCarlGershman(presidentoftheNa-tionalEndowmentforDemocracy).

Corrections

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