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TCDS Announces the Ninth Annual
Democracy & Diversity Graduate Institute
Cape Town, South Africa
January 6 - 22, 2009
Building upon the interest generated by our region-based institute in South Africa, we are pleased to announce the ninth Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Cape Town, South Africa. In this intensive program, an international body of civic-minded junior scholars and activists will examine critical issues of challenges to democracy and democratization as they manifest themselves in Southern Africa and beyond.
Fourteen years after launching its imaginative program for the creation of a post-apartheid society, economy, and state, South Africa provides an exceptionally stimulating setting for study and debate on democratic transitions and consolidation. The Democracy & Diversity Institute is designed and organized by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at The New School for Social Research, New York, in partnership with collaborating scholars and public intellectuals from the region, under the auspices of the Political Information and Monitoring Service (PIMS) at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA). The program will bring together up to 40 young scholars and civic leaders, from the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa but also from the United States, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Central & Eastern Europe.
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