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Date: October 10, 1997
'Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe' to be Topic of WWS Lecture
Princeton, N.J. -- Wendy Luers, president of The Foundation for a Civil Society, will speak on "The Crucial Role of a Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, October 16 at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
The Foundation for a Civil Society, founded in 1990, mobilizes human and financial resources to support projects that strengthen the forces of democracy, civil society, the rule of law, and a free-market economy in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Its activities include an Expert Advisers Program, which promotes reforms in the Czech and Slovak Republics through the placement of long-term, high-level Western advisers with ministries and other policy makers; the Democracy Network Program, sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development, which seeks to develop and strengthen indigenous, public policy-oriented nongovernmental organizations in the Czech and Slovak Republics; and the Project on Justice in Times of Transition, which helps states emerging from repression or conflict to engage in dialogue across national, ethnic, religious, and ideological boundaries.
Luers had a Presidential appointment to the National Council on the Arts, the board of the National Endowment for the Arts, from 1988 until 1996. She is the founder and president of Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies and serves on numerous other nonprofit boards, including those of the Independent Journalism Foundation, the Civic Education Project, and the Vaclav Havel Foundation. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Women's Foreign Policy Group and the American Ditchley Foundation Program Committee. She is a former contributing editor of Vanity Fair and a freelance writer and lecturer.
Her lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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