<div dir="ltr">This mail has attached the questionnaire that was missing yesterday.<div>Deirdre</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">WILLERS Rabea</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Rabea.WILLERS@coe.int">Rabea.WILLERS@coe.int</a>></span><br>Date: 22 April 2015 at 08:45<br>Subject: FW: World Forum for Democracy on "Freedom vs control for a democratic response" (Strasbourg, 18-20 November 2015): <a href="http://www.world-forum-democracy.org">www.world-forum-democracy.org</a><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><span class=""><div><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">On 21 April 2015 at 11:47, HIBBARD Lee <<a href="mailto:Lee.HIBBARD@coe.int" target="_blank">Lee.HIBBARD@coe.int</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The Council of Europe would like to invite organisations worldwide to express their interest in presenting either an example/initiative or an idea
 to respond to security threats in a way that preserves the basic principles of democracy such as freedom of expression, public deliberation, and the privacy of citizens, by answering the questionnaire and sending it to
<a href="mailto:forum_democracy@coe.int" target="_blank">forum_democracy@coe.int</a> by 15 May 2015. The World Forum Task Force will select the most interesting and relevant proposals in June 2015.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">For the first time, the Forum will not only showcase already existing initiatives, but also innovative, untested ideas  to maintain and develop
 democracy’s basic principles in times of increasing security threats.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The fourth edition of the World Forum for Democracy, to take place on 18-20 November 2015, will focus on the challenges democracies face in addressing
 security risks without jeopardising freedom and democratic stability. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Initiatives and ideas to be presented and assessed at the forum will roughly fall under the four key categories:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">How much control kills democracy?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Freedom from fear in a diverse society?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Is learning of democratic culture adequate today?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Is freedom of expression and information a reality?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">One presenter for the selected initiatives/ideas will be invited to Strasbourg to take part in the World Forum. A number of funded places is available.
 Any public or private organisation is eligible to apply.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979</div>
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