The Report of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security
Acknowledgements
Many individuals and institutions contributed to the Global Commission’s work over the course of their deliberations. Their support and contributions are gratefully acknowledged. The 27 Member States of International IDEA provided important political and financial support for the Commission’s activities, for which the Commission is extremely grateful. Additional financial support was received from the Governments of Australia, the Netherlands and Norway. Funding from Mr. Harushisa Handa, Chairman of the Worldwide Support for Development, and the Kofi Annan Foundation also contributed to this initiative. Substantive research for the Commission was led by its Director, Stephen Stedman, Freeman Spogli Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. A research team based at Stanford University contributed to important aspects of the Commission’s research agenda: Andrea Abel, Kathryn Aubrey-Horvath, Kara Downey, Lexie Frosh, William Gallery, Kerry Kraemer, Melissa Lee, Samantha Maskey, Kennedy Opalo, Brenna Powell, and Lauren Prather. A Secretariat was hosted by International IDEA to support all aspects of the Global Commission’s work. The Secretariat was led by Zachary Alpern and included Therese Arnewing, Alberto Guevara Castro, Rosinah Ismail-Clarke, and Valeria Virzí. The Director and Secretariat worked in close coordination with the Office of the Chair: Ruth McCoy, Carlos Oliver Cruz and Kathryn Kirk. Members of the Global Commission benefited from briefings by Brigalia Bam, Judith Kelley, and Richard Youngs. The research team benefited from the comments and assistance of researchers and practitioners in the fields of elections, democracy and security: Leonardo Arriola, Sarah Birch, Dawn Brancuti, Michelle Brown, Sarah Bush, Michael Callen, Daniella Donno, Thad Dunning, Andrew Ellis, James Fearon, Elin Falguera, Susan Hyde, Adrienne LeBas, Steven Levitsky, Nikolay Marinov, Patrick Molutsi, Edward Mortimer, Pippa Norris, Susan Rose-Ackerman, Alberto Simpser, Jack Snyder, Susan Stokes, Haynie Wheeler, and Daniel Zovatto. Vibrant and productive discussions amongst the Director and an Advisory Group informed the report. This group, chaired by Vidar Helgesen and comprised of practitioners who served in their individual capacities included Richard Atwood, Brigalia Bam, Manuel Carrillo, David Carroll, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, Pablo Gutiérrez, Craig Jenness, Ed Killesteyn, Bernhard Knoll, Janez , Beata Martin-Rozumilowicz, Charlotte McDowell, Patrick Merloe, Georges Nakseu-Nguefang, S.Y. Quraishi, Hugo Sada, Mark Stevens, Michael Svetlik, William Sweeney, and Malgorzata Wasilewska.
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