Philanthropist Daniel Chavez Moran is pleased to announce Bill Richardson,
former two-term governor of New Mexico, U.S., will be the keynote speaker of
the seminar titled "La Construcción de la Gobernabilidad Democrática,"
sponsored by the non-profit Vidanta Foundation. The seminar will take place on Oct. 6-7,
2011, in Washington, D.C. Its primary
objective will be to present and discuss the main findings of the Vidanta
Foundation’s Constructing Democratic Governance series, coordinated by Michael Shifter at the Inter-American Dialogue and Jorge Dominguez at Harvard University.
Gov. Richardson served as the 30th governor of New Mexico
from 2003 to 2011. Before being elected governor, Richardson served in the
administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton as U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations, and as Energy Secretary. Richardson has also served as a U.S.
Congressman, chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and chairman
of the Democratic Governors Association.
The Constructing Democratic Governance project sponsored by the Vidanta Foundation is
concerned with democratic institutions and practice in the Latin America. Scholarly
publications resulting from the project have been widely used in college and
university classes concerned with democracy in Latin America and have been
cited frequently by policy specialists grappling with the complicated issues
surrounding democratic progress in the region.
Despite
progress in recent years, almost all Latin American countries continue to face
challenges, and possible setbacks, to democratic governance and the rule of
law. In light of these critical problems, it is productive to once again take
an in-depth, systematic look at regional trends in democratic governance. The
central purpose of such an assessment is to illuminate current trends and
challenges and to make practical lessons available to analysts and key decision
makers on Latin American issues.
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