Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez - The Dissident's Handbook:...

The Dissident's Handbook: The Legal and Extra-Legal Maneuvers Used by Autocrats to Silence Opponents and How Best to Survive Them

Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez, HKS alumnus (MPP 2009) and member of the US Institute for Peace's Comparative Constitution Project, outlines common methods used by governments to suppress dissent, drawing upon case studies from around the world as well as his own experiences in the Venezuelan opposition and those of fellow HKS alumni Bakhtiyar Hajiyev MPP 2009 (currently in prison in Azerbaijan) and Leopoldo Lopez MPP 1996 (currently banned from elected office in Venezuela). Lecture moderated by Professor Hugh O'Doherty.

Co-sponsored by the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, HKS Venezuelan Caucus, Center for Public Leadership, Center for International Development, and Middle East Initiative on May 2nd, 2011. For more information about the Kokkalis Program, visit http://www.hks.harvard.edu/kokkalis.

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Education

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• Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez
• Hugh O'Doherty
• Venezuela
• Azerbaijan
• Dissent
• Dissidents
• Autocracy
• Democracy
• Kokkalis
• Harvard Kennedy School
• Leopoldo Lopez
• Bakhtiyar Hajiyev