Perhaps King Gyanendra does have something up his sleeves. In the long run, however, the answer to Maoist totalitarianism is greater and more inclusive democracy, a vibrant free press, and civil liberties.

We expect all political parties including the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) and the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF) to respect the political process with the National Electoral Board and continue working for the promotion of democracy and a vibrant society.

The whole event was characterized by vibrant exchanges.

The whole event was characterized by vibrant discussions.

It can choose to lead the Middle East into vibrant multi sectarian democracy or slump back into corrupt local politics under foreign tutelage. The latter path could easily lead to civil strife and, perhaps, another civil war.

A vibrant inclusive and democratic multilateralism, directly linked with and reinforced by democracy at the national level, provides the best hope for a future for the international community based on respect, tolerance, accountable governance, human rights and inclusiveness.

They have home brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.

A vibrant discussion took place, with very interesting contributions.

After 42 years of dictatorship, Libya, like Iraq in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein, needs more than wishful thinking to become a vibrant democracy. It needs organized state building in Tripoli and realistic policymaking in Western capitals.

Although Egypt and Tunisia s pro democracy movements achieved rapid regime change, uncertainties remain in those countries, too. After a brief period of hope, many observers now wonder whether the region is capable of producing viable, and economically vibrant, democracies.

In other words, if democracy is to be rebuilt, is to become again vigorous and vibrant, it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.

I fully concur with their assertion that A vibrant, inclusive and democratic multilateralism, directly linked with and reinforced by democracy at the national level, provides the best hope for a future for the international community based on respect, tolerance, accountable governance, human rights and inclusiveness .

It's a vibrant, global community of hackerspaces, and this is just the beginning.

It creates a vibrant, energetic community where people admire and respect each other.

This tie has a more vibrant color and goes better with this suit.

A vibrant and progressive private sector facilitates economic diversification and adaptive structural change.

Crucially, that path has already been taken by South Korea. Despite 35 years of brutal Japanese colonization, three years of civil war, military dictatorship, and a lack of natural resources, the country has emerged from extreme poverty to become in a volatile neighborhood a stable, prosperous, and vibrant democracy.

We streamlined civil military relations, guaranteed social and cultural rights, and attended to the problems of ethnic and religious minorities. These reforms transformed Turkey into a vibrant democracy and a more stable society, at peace with itself and able to view its external environment in a different light.

I lived in a very vibrant, diverse neighborhood where I wrote several of my novels.

This showcases a vibrant and dynamic society in which people participate broadly in political life.

In the last couple of years, I have seen two painfully honest German films Downfall, about the last days of Hitler, and The Lives of Others, about the operations of the former East Germany s secret police (the Stasi). Since those dark days, Germany has developed as a healthy vibrant democracy.

However vibrant, Israel s democracy is not exactly manageable or predictable, either. But although Prime Minister Ehud Olmert might seek to regain his popular credibility by a major new peace demarche, the two headed Palestinian Authority, always a dubious partner in the eyes of the Israelis, is now more suspect than ever.

You don't see the blogger, you don't see the Harvard educated lawyer, the vibrant person, you know?

Is this really the best route to a vibrant economy and a civilized, cultured, and open society?

And it calls for strengthening the private sector and encouraging a vibrant civil society in developing countries.

India is a vibrant democracy, and, as the economic system failed the poor and the weak, the political system tried to compensate. Unlike in some other developing economies, where the rights of farmers or tribals have never stood in the way of development, in India politicians and NGOs took up their cause.

The most fundamental of these values is democracy, understood to entail not merely periodic elections, but also active and meaningful participation in decision making, which requires an engaged civil society, strong freedom of information norms, and a vibrant and diversified media that are not controlled by the state or a few oligarchs.

However, where Parliament itself is corrupt and is not monitored by an independent and vibrant media, corruption thrives.

India also has significant military power, with an estimated 90 100 nuclear weapons, intermediate range missiles, 1.3 million military personnel, and annual military expenditure of nearly 50 billion (3 of the world total). And, in terms of soft power, India has an established democracy, an influential diaspora, and a vibrant popular culture with transnational influence.

A nation was reborn out of Holocaust survivors and uprooted Jewish communities who, mostly through the quality of their human capital, built a booming economy, created one of the world s most innovative agricultures, and revived a dead language. They also sustained, against all odds, a democracy that, however imperfect and dysfunctional, is nonetheless amazingly vibrant.

But the culture that Saddam created convinced Iraqis that political connections are the only way to gain authority, money, and knowledge. Overcoming such sentiments will take time and a vibrant economy, which means that a new Iraqi government must have limited power, allowing the private sector to grow while encouraging widespread understanding of democracy and human rights.

We were already certain then that if democracy is emptied of values and reduced to a competition of political parties that have guaranteed solutions to everything, it can be quite undemocratic. This is why we put so much emphasis on the moral dimension of politics and a vibrant civil society as counterweights to political parties and state institutions.

We work to promote healthy vibrant societies, to ameliorate human suffering, to promote a more thoughtful, substantive, empathic world order.

And, finally, we know from our own experience that reducing poverty needs strong economic growth and a vibrant private sector.

Moreover, they can generate positive externalities for the wider economy, contributing to a vibrant enterprise sector and increased economic activity.

A vibrant civil society plays a strategic role in protecting local communities, countering extremist ideologies and dealing with political violence.

Good governance, a vibrant civil society, functioning markets, and a competitive entrepreneurial private sector are essential ingredients of this process.

Democracy

Democracy

And we have a very vibrant network in China, particularly, but also emerging in Brazil and other parts of the world.

Nor is its effect on established democracies straightforward. While democracies have arguably become more vibrant, their politics have become more volatile.

A vibrant private sector with enterprises making investments, creating jobs and improving productivity promotes growth and creates opportunities for poor people.

The degree to which vibrant and active youth organizations depend on their members' volunteer time and support is also widely reported.

Rethinking Democracy

Damaged Democracy