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Teilnehmerliste, Programm und Presseberichte der ersten Konferenz, die vom Carter Center der Emory University zum Thema internationale und regionale Politik im Vorderen Orient veranstaltet wurde. (DÜI-Sdt)

The following pages provide a recap of the history of the Binational Ecuador-Colombia Dialogue Group (GBD) from the conception of the group in mid-2007 to the closing meeting in Bogotá in May 2009. Besides, some actions that the members of the group carried out after their formal existence concluded are also referred to. In parallel, the mediation efforts led by President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center are narrated from the beginning of the diplomatic crisis between the two countries, which occurred in March 2008, to the steps taken by the governments of Ecuador and Colombia to the reestablishment of relations, as of September 2009. ; En las páginas que siguen se ofrece una recapitulación de la historia del Grupo Binacional de Diálogo Ecuador-Colombia (GBD) desde la concepción del grupo a mediados de 2007 hasta la reunión de cierre de Bogotá en mayo de 2009. Asimismo, se refieren algunas acciones adicionales que los integrantes del grupo llevaron a cabo después de concluida su existencia formal. En forma paralela, se narran los esfuerzos de mediación conducidos por el presidente Jimmy Carter y el Centro Carter desde el inicio de la crisis diplomática entre los dos países, ocurrida en marzo de 2008, hasta los pasos dados por los gobiernos de Ecuador y Colombia para el restablecimiento de las relaciones, a partir de septiembre de 2009.

On October 31, 1991, Zambians elected a new president and 150-member National Assembly in the nation's first multiparty elections since 1968. As the culmination of a four-month, comprehensive election monitoring effort of the Zambia Voting Observation Team (Z-Vote), the Carter Center of Emory University and the NDI organized a 40-member international observer delegation for the elections. The delegations' principal findings are discussed in this report. Despite significant shortcomings with the election system and administration, the elections were universally seen as free and fair, and all parties accepted the results. (DÜI-Hff)

On February 17-18, 1989, a group of thirty Africanist scholars, mainly political scientists, met at the Carter Center of Emory University to participate in the inaugural seminar of the Governance in Africa Program. The topics of the four substantive panels were: (1) communal governance and "high politics" in Africa; (2) beyond autocracy: prospects for progressive statecraft; (3) the informal governance of Africa by aid agencies; (4) perestroika without glasnost in Africa