HUMAN RIGHTS
Astrit Istrefi: We should not stop building alliances across the border, borders across the ethnic groups to fight for democracy, human rights and freedom
Astrit Istrefi, political and security analyst, Kosovo on the panel “History and future of uncompromising commitment...
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Olha Danyliuk: Democracy in Ukraine is also severely undermined by “news deserts” caused by limited access to information
Olha Danyliuk, journalist, Volyna Gazetta, Ukraine on the panel “History and future of uncompromising commitment to...
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DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE: The media are a key infrastructure – a barometer of democratic values and respect for human rights
DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE is the title of the first panel discussion of the major international Conference “Defending Democracy...
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Bojan Maricik: We need to deal with people’s emotions and to translate them into action
Bojan Maricik, civil society activist, expert for EU accession, law and politics, Former Deputy PM for...
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Srdjan Cvijic: Authoritarianism is about manipulating people’s emotions
Srdjan Cvijić, President of the International Advisory Committee of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, Serbia,...
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Wolfgang Ressmann: When democracy is abolished, the danger of war is rising
Wolfgang Ressmann, President of Media Dialogue/Y4M, Germany on the Panel “Democracy under Siege”, at the Conference...
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Konstantinas Andrijauskas: We need to be careful about the way autocrats present “objective truths”
Konstantinas Andrijauskas, University professor, Vilnius University, Lithuania on the Panel “Countering Authoritarianism” at the Conference “Defending...
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Edward Joseph: You can’t have democratic advancement of the region with the largest country that has interests in subverting neighbors
Edward P. Joseph, Conflict Management Expert, John Hopkins University, USA on the Panel “History and future...
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Aleksandar Spasov: We as the mainstream must learn how to make ourselves attractive for people instead of putting the blame on political radicals
Aleksandar Spasov, Associate Professor in Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law, North Macedonia on the Panel...
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Petrit Saracini: There should be coalitions between civil society, fact-checking organizations and mainstream media
Petrit Saracini, media expert, IMA, North Macedonia on the “Panel History and future of uncompromising commitment...
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