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2019 Palmer Forum for the Advancement of Democracy

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Lessons from 1989:

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Reinvigorating Democracy in Europe

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Thursday, October 17, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - breakfast and registration

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. - program

Freedom House

1850 M St. NW, Suite 1100

Washington, DC 20036

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November 9, 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This event, combined with the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, cleared the way for the formation or restoration of liberal democratic institutions not only in Eastern Europe, but around the world.



But, this surge of progress has begun to roll back. Many countries have struggled to accommodate the political swings and contentious debates intrinsic to democracy. In Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans, antidemocratic leaders are undermining democracy by weakening democratic institutions, restricting freedom of expression and attacking the media, and in some cases even consolidating power beyond constitutional limits.



This conference will seek to examine the biggest challenges facing democracy in Central and Eastern European states today, how lessons from 1989-1991 can be applied to present circumstances, and how the United States and other democracies can work to reinvigorate democracy in the region.

Confirmed speakers include:

Michael J. Abramowitz, president of Freedom House



Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Washington Post columnist, and professor of practice at the London School of Economics



Timothy Garton Ash, author, historian, Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University



Alex T. Johnson, chief of staff at the U.S. Helsinki Commission



James Kirchick, author, columnist, and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution



Lindsay Lloyd, director of the Human Freedom Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute



Malgorzata Szuleka, lawyer and advocacy officer at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Poland



Vessela Tcherneva, deputy director of the European Council on Foreign Relations



Ambassador Kurt Volker, executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University



Edit Zgut, political scientist and visiting lecturer at University of Warsaw

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