The realities of the COVID-19 pandemic required Atlas Network to pivot to a suite of virtual Regional Liberty Forums in 2020, but nothing compared to the most-attended Atlas Network event of the year—the 2020 Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner online—which brought together think tank leaders, supporters, and academics from around th...
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Originally launched in 2015, the Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies Organization (AELSO)’s Silk Road Station continues to promote the values of a free society through 39 radio programs. The station includes eight weekly programs in English, Dari, and Pashto, and it surpassed 600,000 listeners in 2019 from Iran, Tajikistan, P...
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Atlas Network’s Dr. Tom Palmer spent the early part of December in Afghanistan to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies Organization (AELSO). “It had been too long since my last visit with our esteemed Afghan Partners, AELSO,” explained Dr. Palmer. “I knew that they had been doing very g...
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Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies Organization (AELSO), an Atlas Network partner, is winning the battle of ideas in a very difficult part of the world. “Whenever someone participates in one of our events for the first time, we get a lot of criticism,” explained Khalid Ramizy, Executive Director of AELSO. “They say, ‘these v...
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Afghanistan is one of the world’s least economically free countries, but the Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies Organization (AELSO) has launched a new program to help build a greater understanding of the benefits of liberty and free markets. The “Tolerance and Prosperity Caravan,” is a series of conferences and roundtable d...
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Of the many positive benefits of liberty (increased commerce, economic prosperity, and personal freedom, to name a few), peace is often overlooked. The principles of liberty provide the framework for equality and civility wherever they are applied. The Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies Organization (AELSO) understands the i...
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Earlier this month, the Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies Organization (AELSO) launched a new project to promote democracy, liberty, and tolerance, while opposing radicalism in order to bring peace and prosperity to the country. The initiative, called the “Tolerance and Prosperity Caravan,” is a nationwide project with goa...
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Nineteen participants from 13 countries from around Asia gathered in Jakarta, Indonesia, from February 7-9, 2018, to participate in Atlas Network’s Lessons in Effective Fundraising in Asia. This course is part of Atlas Network’s robust coaching and training programs under Atlas Network’s Leadership Academy.
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The finalists for the 2018 Asia Liberty Award are Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies Organization (AELSO, Afghanistan), for its Silk Road Station project; Samriddhi Foundation (Nepal), for its Reform Circle project; and Teach North Korean Refugees (TNKR, South Korea), for its Teach North Korean Refugees Global Education Cent...
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Founded by a group of university professors, human rights activists, policy makers, economists, civil society activists, and youth, the Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies Organization (AELSO) opened was established in December 2009.
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In late 2015, the Kabul-based Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies Organization (AELSO) debuted its online TV and radio platform, Silk Road Station, with the goal of raising awareness about the benefits of a free-market economy and other free society values among Afghan youth and policy makers. It currently broadcasts 39 diffe...
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Afghanistan has suffered under a continual state of war for several decades, and although conflict continues, parts of the country have begun to experience relative stability. There may be no better time than the present for the ideas of liberty to flourish in Afghanistan. The Kabul-based Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies O...
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For roughly two millennia, the network of Silk Road trade routes connected Asian, African, and European regions. The cities of Afghanistan served as interchanges at the heart of this web of commerce, fostering an astounding degree of cultural development, exchange, and collaboration. Atlas Network partner the Afghanistan Economi...
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This month, Afghanistan Economic & Legal Studies Organization (AELSO) celebrated its fifth anniversary of advancing its mission “to promote the values of individual freedom and of the responsibility of civil society for the creation and sustenance of the institutions of limited government, the rule of law, and the other institut...
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