Promoting Democracy, Peace, and Solidarity

Issue Date October 1998
Volume 9
Issue 4
Page Numbers 157-67
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Andrea Riccardi is president of the Community of Saint Egidio.Andrea Riccardi is president of the Community of Saint Egidio. This essay is based on a lecture that he delivered on 9 February 1998 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The lecture, one in a series entitled “The Democratic Invention,” was cosponsored by the Luso-American Development Foundation, the Mário Soares Foundation, and the International Forum for Democratic Studies.

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