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Democracy in the Steppe!
During June, Dr Todd Landman, of the Department of
Government and Human Rights Centre, participated in an international
conference on democracy in Mongolia.
The conference was attended by a variety of country delegations from
around the world, as well as representatives from the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), the International Institute for Democracy
and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
The conference was part of a series of activities carried out by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia and the UNDP under the auspices of
the Fifth International Conference on New or Restored Democracies
(ICNRD-5), the sixth round of which will be chaired by Qatar starting from
November 2006.
As part of the activities over the last year, Dr Landman and
researchers from the University (Marco Larizza, Claire McEvoy, and Edzia
Carvalho) prepared a desk study on the state of democracy in Mongolia, a
comparative study of democratisation in Central Asia, and advised on the
development of democratic governance indicators collected by a research
team of Mongolian academics based in Ulaanbaatar. Dr Landman will be
preparing a final report along with the Mongolia team and the UNDP on the
experience in Mongolia for the next international conference in Doha, when
the government of Qatar assumes leadership of ICNRD-6. These and future
activities form part of the Human Rights Centre’s State of Democracy
Project, which is jointly run with International IDEA.
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