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In the Financial Times, Kagame writes: “Those who look in from the outside ignore the fact that competitive democracy requires sustained social cohesion……No country has moved from genocide to confrontational politics overnight…..Many also fail to understand that it was precisely a system of pluralistic politics that played a major role in the genocide as newly formed parties with shared extremist ideology outperformed the one-party state in mobilising the population to commit mass murder.”

Until the view of Kagame and others is openly debated the West will continue to make mistakes in the developing world.

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Ashley Tellis of the Carnegie Endowment on the growing global conundrum of nuclear legitimacy. 

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Can everyday people change the world?

With conflicts raging across the world and European governments imposing stringent austerity measures, people are wondering more and more how they can play a role in shaping their future. Steve Crawshaw, author of a new book to be published in September entitled Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity, and Ingenuity Can Change the World, will be discussing the potential for individuals to take on injustice and oppression in the world today.

Looking at current examples including Iran and Burma we will be discussing what people are able to achieve in the face of the powerful who have armies and police on their side. Are we powerless to change anything or are there acts of defiance, some of which are so small they are missed by the mainstream media, that can make a big difference?

Chaired by Humphrey Hawksley, leading BBC foreign correspondent, author and commentator on world affairs.

With: Steve Crawshaw, international advocacy director Amnesty International;

Saeed Kamali Dehghan, Iranian journalist who writes frequently for the Guardian;

Tin Htar Swe, head of the BBC Burmese Service;

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Democracy is often called a system, at which governments hold elections and, in case of its defeat, give power to winners. In our country, elections used to be held always with one result – the winner was exceptionally the power itself. Therefore, we should not exclude that in the nearest future the winner in the elections in Kyrgyzstan will be a ruling party.  Democracies can be stable only at a definite level of economic development. When the country is populated by poor citizens, it should be understood that a voting bulletin is not a saving remedy.  In theory, democracy deserves admiration, but its hasty introduction outside western world often entails bigger poverty, bloodshed and death.

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‘All right,’ West said thoughtfully. ‘So who are North Korea’s friends? Because Hitler had plenty.’

      ‘China and Russia – if you don’t count the rogue states,’ said Secretary of State Newman. ‘They’ll back us, but it may have a cost.  On the surface, neither will sacrifice their relationship with us in order to save North Korea. But go a bit beneath that, and they will try to exact unacceptable concessions.’

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