IFES News in Brief 2005

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Michael Svetlik
Vice President, Programs

Zeinab Abdelkarim
Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa

Chad Vickery
Regional Director, Europe and Asia

IFES’ Center for Transitional and Post-Conflict Governance on Dec. 21 hosted a discussion on the electoral process in Egypt led by Voter Education and Civic Dialogue Specialist Ban Saraf. In … read more » December 22, 2005

IFES Board Member Leon Weil praised Tajikistan’s Minister of Education, Abdujabbor Rahmonov, for his support of IFES’ civic education projects. Ambassador Weil presented Rahmonov with a Jefferson Cup,… read more » December 20, 2005

Kosovo authorities are preparing to manage the province’s elections for the first time since the 1999 ethnic conflict, with local government elections scheduled for 2006. The elections are a ste… read more » December 10, 2005

Arturo Lopez-Levy, IFES Hybl Fellow, presented his presentation "Religious communities and the development of civil society in Cuba," on December 9. Lopez-Levy is a Ph.D candidate at the University of… read more » December 10, 2005

IFES organized a three-day Youth Forum during the Africa Social Forum in Conakry, Guinea Dec. 2-4. More than 350 youth from Guinea, Benin, Sénégal and Liberia discussed their involvement fighting corr… read more » December 06, 2005

Staff from IFES’ Kyrgyzstan office coordinated with the Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI,) a local non-governmental organization, to discuss their Early Warning for Violence Preventio… read more » December 06, 2005

IFES President Richard Soudriette received an Honorary Diploma in electoral administration from the University of Paris II. The diploma was awarded at a ceremony in the French Senate on November 22. T… read more » November 23, 2005

IFES and The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a discussion featuring Luis Carlos Ugalde, the president of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) on November 18 in Washi… read more » November 19, 2005

IFES is preparing to expand its Victims of Organized Violence Project in Haiti which provides assistance to victims of torture and gives local organizations the means to document violence. Lesley Rich… read more » November 16, 2005

Raising the political and cultural profile of Ecuador’s Afro-descendant population is the goal of a new program from IFES. Americas Program Assistant Mara Krier explained the Promoting the Equitable P… read more » November 16, 2005

IFES President Richard Soudriette publicly endorsed the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation at a ceremony at the United Nations in New York on Oct. 27. U.N. Secretary-Gene… read more » October 28, 2005

IFES’ Director of Communications and Research Dorin Tudoran attended the 50th anniversary of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) on October 27 in Philadelphia. Tudoran, an associate fel… read more » October 28, 2005

Tajikistan Minister of Education Abdujabbor Rahmonov has awarded IFES an honorary diploma in recognition of the organization’s work with Tajikistani youth. The minister praised IFES’ efforts to educat… read more » October 20, 2005

IFES presented its Charles T. Manatt Democracy Award to Monsignor Agripino Nuñez Collado and United States Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN.) on Oct. 19 at the Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C. Nunez, Dire… read more » October 20, 2005

All of the big new ideas in the last 20 years have been generated by civil society organizations, said Miklos Marschall, Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia at Transparency International. He… read more » October 15, 2005

Jerry Hyman, Director of Democracy and Government at USAID, said that the current United States administration has adopted two key changes that affect democracy specialists. Hyman, who spoke at IFES’ … read more » October 05, 2005

Thomas Carothers, Director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, presented his keynote address “The Challenges of Democracy Promotion Today” on Oc… read more » October 04, 2005

IFES' 11th Charles and Kathleen Manatt Democracy Studies Fellow, Megan Reif, presented "Electoral Intimidation & Violence in Ghana and Newark: Can we define, measure and explain patterns across differ… read more » October 04, 2005