Voices in Exile
Working to empower democratic movements in dictatorships and repressive contexts is always about supporting people driven by the belief that…
Library Region: Belarus
Supporting Civil Society in Exile
In Myanmar, civic space drastically contracted after the February 2021 coup. Stringent registration and operating constraints, as well as threats…
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Belarus’ Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya talks about living under a dictatorship and the challenges of leading her country’s shadow government from exile.…
Sanctions Relaxation and Conflict Resolution: Lessons from Past Sanctions Regimes
This report begins with a brief survey of the relationships between sanctions and conflict resolution. Next, elements of sanctions relief…
REPORT LAUNCH: Examining How Civic Mobilizations Grow & Thrive In Authoritarian Contexts
How Civic Mobilizations Grow in Authoritarian Contexts examines 21 recent examples of these mobilizations to determine the factors that helped or…
How can #democracy deliver on #environmentaljustice?
Today at World Forum for Democracy / Forum mondial de la Démocratie we had the pleasure of hearing from Vilija…
Promoting More Policy-Focused Parties Through Civic Organizing: A Guidance Note
This guidance note aims to identify what civic interventions have successfully incentivized more policy-focused political parties. The publication examines four…
Remarks by Nadia Zelenkova, Belarusian entrepreneur and activist in exile
Remarks by Nadia Zelenkova, Belarusian entrepreneur and activist in exile, wife of a political prisoner, at the international roundtable “Political…
Designing Sanctions: Lessons from EU Restrictive Measures against Belarus
This event will present a detailed analysis of the various elements in the design of EU sanctions and of how…