DIPPING INTO THE HISTORY OF INDELIBLE INK IFES was recently featured in a Quartz “weekly obsession” article about the dark purple ink that voters dip their finger into after they vote. Countries use indelible ink to prevent people from voting more than once. Read more about it here. UPCOMING EVENTS Join Peter Erben, IFES’s principal advisor and senior country director in Ukraine, at the U.S. Institute of Peace on Feb. 8, where he will speak about the vital importance of supporting Ukraine’s democratic progress and institutions. He will be joined by Amb. Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States. The event will be moderated by Amb. William Taylor with introductory remarks by Tony Banbury. Register here. On Feb. 9, join IFES for a conversation exploring strategies for establishing and enforcing state accountability in politically fragile environments around the world. Our esteemed panelists include Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University; IFES's Regional Director for the Americas, Maximo Zaldivar; and Thomas Carothers, Senior Fellow and co-director of Democracy, Conflict, and Governance, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, with veteran journalist Maggie Lake as moderator. RSVP here. |
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