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Democracy Round Table 2007: Democracy and Diversity, 12 June 2007, Oslo, Norway 

• Welcoming address by Raymond Johansen, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway (Listen: )
• Managing Diversity: The Promise and Challenge of Democracy by Vidar Helgesen, Secretary-General of International IDEA (Listen: | Read)

Panel 1: “Whose Democracy? Diversity in a globalised world”

Moderated by Shashi Tharoor

• Shashi Tharoor, writer and former United Nations Under-Secretary General (Listen: )
• Neal Ascherson, Open Democracy (Listen: )
• Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada (Listen: )
• Tariq Ramadan, St. Antony's College, Oxford University (Listen: )
• Neal Ascherson responding to Tariq Ramadan's intervention (Listen: )
• Tariq Ramadan responding to Neal Ascherson's comments (Listen: )

Panel 2: “Democracy & Diversity: Experiences From Around The Globe”

Moderated by Shashi Tharoor

• Rajeev Bhargava, University of New Delhi (Listen: )
• Enrique Ojeda, Fundación Tres Culturas, Sevilla (Listen: )
• Sona Khan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India (Listen: )
• Theo Veenkamp, Senior Advisor, Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development, Leiden University (Listen: )

• Cassam Uteem, former President of the Republic of Mauritius, International IDEA Board member (Read)
  

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