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Seminar

Fixed and Staged vs. Free and Fair: An Election Observer's Account of the Uzbek Parliamentary and Palestinian Presidential Elections

Open to the Public

Fixed and Staged vs. Free and Fair: An Election Observer's Account of the Uzbek Parliamentary and Palestinian Presidential Elections

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369

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The recent Uzbekistan parliamentary and Palestinian presidential elections were very different; the former were utterly staged and the latter suprisingly free and fair. ISP-Program on Intrastate Conflict fellow Fotini Christia describes her back-to-back experiences as an international monitor in Uzbekistan and the Palestinian Authority.