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The Dictator’s Playbook
Authoritarian leaders across the world use the same strategy to gain power and keep control. Democracies are often eroded from within, step by step. How can we recognize attacks on democracy and learn to stand up against them?
Meet three people with experience from living under authoritarian rule, and one of Norway’s leading democracy researchers:
Darya Shut, political scientist, author and activist from Belarus. She is the co-founder of the Belarusian association in Norway – Razam and author of the book “The Prize of Liberty”, where she describes how it is to grow up in an authoritarian regime.
Ramon Barreto, lawyer, political scientist and activist from Venezuela. Barreto is a PhD Candidate at Oslo Met and member of Norwegian Venezuelan Justice Alliance (NorVen).
Hamidreza Mohammadi, teacher and translator from Iran and the brother of Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2023. Narges Mohammadi received the prize for her fight for women’s rights and human rights in Iran and is imprisoned by the regime.
Carl Henrik Knutsen, Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, where he leads the Comparative Institutions and Regimes research group. He is also Professor II at the University of South-Eastern Norway, Affiliated Researcher at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Principal Investigator at Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem).
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This evening the museum is open, with the event ticket you can view our exhibitions until 20:00. The event is in English.
PART OF THE NOBEL PEACE TALKS
The event is part of the series Nobel Peace Talks, focusing on topics related to the latest Nobel Peace Prize. With the peace prize awarded to Maria Corina Machado as backdrop, we discuss developments in Venezuela, the global consequences, and the state of democracy in the world.
Darya Shut portrait: Photo: Leikny Havik Skjærseth
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