Talk:National Democratic Institute

message: I merged this article and the artice NDI, which now redirects to this article. I have done nothing with the actual text, apart from some minor typographical changes. The section "Background" is clearly written by a favourable observer, or perhaps the NDI itself, and I have therefore added an NPOV-check tag. The text should be made to conform with the Wikipedia NPOV-policies. --Thorsen 19:19, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The past president of the NDI, Kenneth Wollack, used to be the legislative director of the American Israel American Affairs Committee (AIPAC), one of the most powerful lobby groups in Washington. AIPAC has the expressed goal of isolating such groups as Hamas and Hezbollah, groups that run in elections which the NDI looks to influence and claims not bias in. I have difficulty in believing that the NDI is a group with the sole ideological goal of spreading democracy. Kenneth Wollack himself has made public statements casting doubt on President Hugo Chaves, someone who was fairly elected through a democratic process which the Carter Center observed and affirmed as fair (the irony being that Carter was also the one who founded the NDI).
All this to say, it is my opinion that the NDI is not an organization concerned with the expansion of democracy in the world, but are instead interested in using democracy up and to the point that it advances U.S. interests.
*Which is a criticism, and an anonymous one at that. First, Chaves is far from a pure democrat and human rights guardian, just look at what Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Reporters without Borders, etc have said about him. The mere fact that he was democratically approved means nothing, in fact, one should look back at how Napoleon used a similar method to promote his dictatorship. Secondly, you're making an assumption that just because he has made critical comments about Chaves, it is impossible for him to head a group to monitor him fairly. Hell, HRW makes criticism of Chaves and Hamas all the time; therefore they can't be used as a human rights monitor?
*Find someone who makes the criticism, and post it on the article, this isn't the place for airing your personal views.--Dudeman5685 02:49, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article definitely needs some kind of criticism section.  Like the NED, NDI has links to the CIA and has been accused to destabilization and regime-change operations.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:600:9500:C9F0:D85E:59A7:7DCA:2F9D (talk) 19:51, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Curious Connections 

message: NDIPublicAffairs (talk) 19:24, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sadads (talk) 21:51, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

text: Frantj (talk) 21:51, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Democratic Century Fund 

message: After doing some research on the NDI, 
I think it would be good to change this section under "Sources of Funding:" "The NDI receives financial support from the United States Congress, the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development as well as from approximately 35 other countries, multilateral institutions and foundations. Previous supporters include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United States Institutes of Peace, the government of Sweden and the Middle East Partnership Initiative. The NDI is not a grant-making organization."
to 
"The NDI receives financial support from The National Endowment for DemocracyNational_Endowment_for_Democracy, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)[], the U.S. Department of State[], and the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS)[]. Furthermore, the NDI receives contributions from governments, foundations, multilateral institutions, corporations, organizations, and individuals. Some of these governments and multilateral institutions include the Government of Australia[], Government of Denmark[], and Government of Belgium[]."
I have all the sources for it. 
Also, I think a new section should be added, titled "Success" and should start with this: 
"In 30 years, the National Democratic Institute has worked in 132 countries and territories around the world and supported the efforts of 15,000 civic organizations, 850 political parties and organizations, 10,000 legislators, and 1,300 women's organizations. Furthermore, NDI has organized over 150 international election observer delegations in over 62 countries. The NDI has monitored over 340 referenda and elections and trained over 3 million election observers in over 85 countries. Furthermore, they have helped partner groups organize 300 candidate debates in over 35 countries.https://www.ndi.org/30th_anniversary_report/index.html#4"
Also, I think a list of some past recipients should be added under the Harriman Democracy Award:
Past recipients of the award have included:
Senator Barbara Mikulski, D-MD
Archbishop Desmond Tutu[1] of South Africa
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf [2]of Liberia
former United States President Jimmy Carter[3]
former Czech President Václav Havel[4]
former United States President Bill Clinton[5]
Varela Project leader Oswaldo Payá of Cuba[6]
Burmese democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi[7]
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine K. Albright[8]
Yassine Brahim
Rafik Halouani
Wafa Makhlouf 
Sayida Ounissi
Jinnayang (talk) 23:40, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing the "Sources of Funding" Section & Adding a Section titled "Success" 

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