Conference: Soviet Dissident Movement and American Foreign Policy During 1980s.When: Panel discussions from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., April 14, 2008, and pre-dinner speaker Yuri Yarim-Agaev from 6:45 to 7:30 p.m., April 14, 2008 Where: Presentations and discussions at Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President , Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. ; Pre-dinner talk at Stanford Faculty Club, Stanford University What: The conference will analyze the joint effort by the Soviet dissidents Soviet dissidents were citizens of the Soviet Union who disagreed with the policies and actions of their government and actively protested against these actions through non-violent means. , Western democratic government, nongovernmental organizations Transnational organizations of private citizens that maintain a consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Nongovernmental organizations may be professional associations, foundations, multinational businesses, or simply groups with a common interest in , the media, academe, and the cultural community, which helped to bring down the Soviet communist regime. The conference will examine basic guiding principles of those groups and consider whether their successful experience could be applied for solving problems with current totalitarian regimes. Who: Participants will include Soviet dissidents Vladimir Bukovsky and Yuri Yarim-Agaev; architects of the Reagan's Soviet policy, Mark Palmer and Richard Perle; leaders of dissident-supportive NGOs David Waksberg and Philip Siegelman, and experts on democratization de·moc·ra·tize tr.v. de·moc·ra·tized, de·moc·ra·tiz·ing, de·moc·ra·tiz·es To make democratic. de·moc Michael McFaul, Henry Rowen, Charles Wolf and John Dunlop, all Hoover fellows. George Shultz, the secretary of state in the Reagan administration and Hoover Institution Distinguished Fellow, will open the conference. RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. , MORE INFORMATION: The conference and pre-dinner talk are open for coverage by the working media. To reserve a seat and receive a full agenda, telephone Hoover Institution Public Affairs at 650-723-0603. |
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