International Organizations & Democracy: The OAU and Elections

Issue Date July 1993
Volume 4
Issue 3
Page Numbers 55-59
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About the Author

Larry Garber, senior associate for electoral processes at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), has written extensively on the subject of election monitoring. In September 1992, at the request of OAU secretary general Salim Ahmed Salim, he facilitated a week-long OAU training program in election monitoring.

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