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Reinvigorating People Power: Lessons Learned from Civil Resistance Leaders

The Ash Center invites you to watch a panel discussion with civil resistance leaders from around the world discussing their experiences and lessons learned from fighting dictatorships over the past ten years.

Guest speakers from Bolivia, South Sudan, Venezuela and Egypt discussed the importance of transnational collaboration between people’s power movements and what can be done to confront recent democratic backsliding. Erica Chenoweth, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy School, moderated.

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