What do dictatorships fear most? It’s noise, connection, and solidarity. Resistance together. In this personal and politically charged keynote at the 2025 Creative Bureaucracy Festival, I shared my journey from growing up under dictatorship in Tunisia to witnessing -and participating…
During last Athen’s Democracy Forum, on September 27, 2023, I had both the privilege and honor to announce the recipients of the inaugural “Democratic Innovators of the 21st Century” Politician’s Hall of Fame. Representing the Apolitical Foundation, we associated with…
December 17, 2010, is when democracy in Tunisia and in North Africa began. Far from a celebration, I see this day as a commemoration for people who lost their lives to free us Tunisians here and abroad. Ten years later,…
On February 19-20th, ICAN and the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) hosted a Global Solutions Exchange roundtable titled “Appetite for Risk of Investing in Trust? Lessons and Best Practices from ICAN’s Innovative Peace Fund (IPF) in Supporting Local Women-led Organizations’…
This panel will be an intergenerational conversation among expert leaders who are spearheading critical movements for peace and security in countries across Africa. The panel will feature Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee and showcase the strategic contributions of women peacebuilders…
Civic Leadership and Social EntrepreneurshipCo-sponsored by Columbia World Projects and the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business SchoolPlease join Professor Damon Phillips for this special evening with the inaugural cohort of Obama Foundation Scholars Program, a new collaboration between…
Reclaiming Democracy Frustrated by democracy’s ongoing debate about the relationship between the government and the governed, former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank once quipped that “government is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together.” Yet,…
