October 1993

Volume 4, Issue 4

The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict

Election Watch

Reports on elections in Belize, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Iran, Madagascar, Morocco, Nigeria, Singapore, Togo. 

Documents on Democracy

Excerpts from: documents issued by Guatemala’s Court of Constitutionality and leaders of civil society; “The Vienna Declaration and Program of Action”; statement of Nigeria’s Civil Liberties Organisation; address of Dr. Sein Winn, leader of the exiled National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma; speeches by the South African recipients of the 1993 Liberty Medal. 

Leopold Labedz (1920-1993)

  A memorial service was held on June 15 in Washington, D.C., to pay tribute to Leopold Labedz, who died on March 22 in London. A founding member of the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy, Labedz served as editor of the British journal Survey from 1962 to 1989. Speakers at the service, who extolled Labedz’s lifelong…