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Past Event
Seminar

The Dissident’s Handbook: The Legal and Extra-Legal Maneuvers Used by Autocrats to Silence Opponents and How Best to Survive Them

Open to the Public

Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez, HKS alumnus (MPP 2009) and member of the US Institute for Peace's Comparative Constitution Project, outlines common strategies used in dissident suppression, drawing upon case studies from around the world as well as his own experiences in the Venezuelan opposition and those of fellow HKS alumni Bakhtiyar Hajiyev MPP 2009 (currently in prison in Azerbaijan) and Leopoldo Lopez MPP 1996 (currently banned from elected office in Venezuela).

Date: Time: - Location: Taubman Building - Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor
The Dissident’s Handbook: The Legal and Extra-Legal Maneuvers Used by Autocrats to Silence Opponents and How Best to Survive Them

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Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez, HKS alumnus (MPP 2009) and member of the US Institute for Peace's Comparative Constitution Project, outlines common strategies used in dissident suppression, drawing upon case studies from around the world as well as his own experiences in the Venezuelan opposition and those of fellow HKS alumni Bakhtiyar Hajiyev MPP 2009 (currently in prison in Azerbaijan) and Leopoldo Lopez MPP 1996 (currently banned from elected office in Venezuela).

Moderated by Hugh O’Doherty, adjunct lecturer in public policy, Harvard Kennedy School


Co-sponsored by the HKS Venezuelan Caucus, Center for Public Leadership, Center for International Development, Middle East Initiative, and Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe