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Cristiana Chamorro is the founder and director of the Fundación Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, a nonprofit organization focusing on projects for the consolidation of reconciliation, peace, and democracy in Nicaragu, freedom of expression, and responses to poverty. She writes on the editorial page for Diario La Prensa and for the agency Servicio Especial de Mujeres, based in Costa Rica. She is on the Board of Directors and Editorial Advisery Board for Diario La Prensa. From 1991 to 1996, Mrs. Chamorro Barrios was an adviser to the President of Nicaragua, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. As president of the Director's Board of Diario La Prensa from 1991 to 1993, she introduced a process of computerization and began the professional modernization of the newspaper. From 1987 to 1993, she was the vice president of the Commission for the Freedom of Expression.
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The Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy at University College London offers a master’s degree program in democracy and democratization. The program focuses on the design and operation of democratic institutions in old and new democracies. Visit www.ucl.ac.uk/spp/teaching/msc-democracy-democratisation/ or write to Sherrill Stroschein (s.stroschein@ucl.ac.uk) for more information.
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The last time a Russian leader came to this city, in May 1989, the streets were clogged with student protesters demanding democracy and China seemed to be on the brink of cataclysmic political change. The leader, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, was hailed by students camped outside City Hall as the kind of forward-looking man that China needed to abandon its outdated ideology and rescue dilapidated cities like Shanghai.
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What do these jade and DNA studies have to do with Taiwan's identity and its openness to democracy? Enough Taiwanese were able to see through the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) propaganda. They found that true Taiwanese are those that remained proud of their island and their heritage. They did not need to claim some bogus link to the "Yellow Emperor" or his successors to fill their pride. Taiwanese are an island people and long used to the influx of and interaction with many cultures and even suffering the unfortunate colonization by many of those past cultures.
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Larry Diamond is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy. At Stanford University, he is professor by courtesy of political science and sociology, and he coordinates the democracy program of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), within the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI).
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The Center for Democracy and Civil Society and Georgetown University’s Department of Government is accepting applications for a master’s degree program in democracy studies. Created in fall 2006, the program addresses the diverse needs of a growing population working in the field of democracy promotion, with a specific focus on issues of democracy and development, and on improving the quality of democratic life around the world. Applications for fall 2007 admissions are due February 15, 2007. For additional information visit www.georgetown.edu/centers/cdats/maprogramaims.htm.
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