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CIPE LIFE Project cited in Inkstick “World Refugee Day” Essay

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Cooking Up A New LIFE: How Refugees Use Cooking To Thrive This essay originally appeared in Inkstick, and is written by Johanna Mendelson Forman. It is often said that the history of immigration is the history of cuisine. Certainly, in the United States, we would still be eating only oysters and bee...

CIPE, NDI, and CIMA Announce Selection of First Cohort of Global Open Internet Leaders

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This article originally appeared on the National Democratic Institute’s website. The Open Internet for Democracy Initiative (OIDI) announced the selection of the first cohort of open internet advocates for the Open Internet for Democracy Leaders Program. The six outstanding leaders (se...

On populism and situation in Poland – An interview with Marek Tatala

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An Interview with CIPE partner Marek Tatala, the Executive President and Economist at the Civil Development Forum Foundation in Warsaw, Poland. He has degrees in Political Science and Economics from the University of Bristol, England and the Warsaw School of Economics. He is a graduate of the Atlas...

CIPE Expert Writes Anti-Corruption Blog

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Private sector participation in the Global Magnitsky Act Katya Lysova, a Senior Program Officer for Eurasia at the Center for International Private Enterprise, wrote about the Magnitsky Act for the FCPA blog. Read it here. ...

An Epidemic of Intolerance: Global Threats to Freedom of Expression

CIPE in News | Greg Lebedev

This piece was originally published in the Diplomatic Courrier. The 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris and a free speech meeting at a Danish café are unfortunate memories that we’d like to forget. But, what we hopefully learned and will not forget is that these events were more than just ano...

CIPE Report on “Corrosive Capital” cited in The Hill

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Beyond sanctions: On Russia policy, Congress should focus on new tools This opinion piece originally appeared in The Hill, and is written by Edoardo Saravalle. The Trump administration shocked observers by not imposing new Russia-related sanctions by a January 29 deadline. This decision came on the ...

Futbol: The Real Antidote to Social Instability

CIPE in News | Greg Lebedev

Remarks to the Conference on the Importance of Business to Democratic Governance and the Signing of the Ouagadougou Declaration Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | January 16-17, 2018 Your Excellency, President Kabore, the host of this conference, President Issoufou of Niger, President Keita of Mali,...

CIPE Experts discuss Effects of Governance Gaps and Corrosive Capital in Balkan Countries

CIPE in News | Martina Hrvolova, Eric Hontz

Mind the (Governance) Gap This article first appeared in European Western Balkans and was written by Martina Hrvolova and Eric Hontz Over the past decade, Russia and a number of other countries have sought to play a larger role in the Western Balkans. The tools that these countries have used are not...

Abdulwahab Alkebsi interviewed in PBS segment on Yemen

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A brutal, three-year civil war in Yemen has drawn in regional and global powers, led to the fastest growing cholera epidemic and, perhaps soon, famine. A Saudi coalition is lifting a recent blockade on the country after aid groups warned it would trigger a humanitarian disaster, but millions remain ...

CIPE Partner UNACOIS Meeting with Senegalese President

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UNACOIS, CIPE’s longtime partner, made national headlines in Senegal in July, when it hosted a policy forum with Senegal’s President Macky Sall and other key government representatives. UNACOIS members from all regional chapters, as well as from the association’s youth and women’s sections, ...