Duy Hoang - Democracy Promoters, Diasporas, and Diplomats (USIP/ICNC)

Описание: Today, international NGO's, human rights organizations and various governments provide assistance to indigenous groups that engage in dissent or resistance to autocracy. Russian and other critics of the "color revolutions" have denounced this as foreign interference, but democracy promotion has been going on for decades. This session will explore such questions as: What are its chief methods and effects today, in the context of the needs and opportunities of groups using civil resistance? How do diaspora-based dissidents and nonviolent opposition groups help foster nonviolent resistance to oppression? How should diplomats offer support to nonviolent campaigns for rights and justice?