Final Report on Third Assembly: Building Democracy for Peace, Development, and Human Rights

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Final Online Report

Welcome to the final report on the Third Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy, which took place at the International Convention Center on February 1-4, 2004, in Durban, South Africa.

The report was prepared by the Secretariat of the World Movement at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). It is based on the proceedings of the Assembly and the various workshop reports.

This online report is an enhanced version of the printed report and includes many of the recommendations and proposed initiatives that resulted from nearly 60 workshops; video clips and full text from the keynote addresses delivered by Zainab Bangura (Sierra Leone), Lodi Gyari (Tibet), and Ivan Krastev (Bulgaria); summaries of the Democracy Courage Tributes presented at the John B. Hurford Memorial Dinner; a list of the nearly 600 participants who attended; and other material.

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World Movement for Democracy

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The World Movement for Democracy is a global network of democrats including activists, practitioners, scholars, policy makers, and funders, who have come together to cooperate in the promotion of democracy. The World Movement seeks to strengthen democracy where it is weak, to reform and invigorate democracy even where it is longstanding, and to bolster pro-democracy groups in countries that have not yet entered into a process of democratic transition. [More...]

The material in this report was edited by Art Kaufman, Project Manager, World Movement Secretariat, and assembled by Rachel Boyle, Project Coordinator.