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The focus for this year’s meeting, and a springboard for the next, is “Citizen Diplomacy as the World Leans Towards Autocracy.” The meeting gathered 38 American, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese and European experts over five days, October 5-10, 2025. This document summarizes the major themes covered at the meeting. It raises more questions than it answers. But, drawing on these most recent discussions, we hope to bring enough clarity to these issues that we can raise support...

Just as the battlefield in Kursk and Eastern Ukraine bore dramatic shifts in recent weeks, so too has the digital landscape. This week...

Last Friday, nations and peoples around the globe observed International Women’s Day (though notably, some did not). Womanhood and gender...

The escalation of state reprisal against Russian defense attorneys sparks our inquiry into repression’s permeation throughout society...