About

The Program on Democratic Resilience and Development at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy, Reichman University is an interdisciplinary research, educational, and policy platform dedicated to the understanding and nurturing of free and responsible societies in Israel and around the world. We seek to better understand, protect and promote the values, institutions, and processes that enable human beings to create and sustain conditions of human dignity, security, liberty, and wellbeing. 

We also analyze twenty-first century threats to those values, institutions, and processes, and seek to nurture a cadre of young leaders committed to freedom and responsibility.

The Program on Democratic Resilience and Development is a partnership between the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy, and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS). In 1960, Israel's Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, and German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, laid the foundations for reconciliation between Germany and Israel, and for a future partnership between the two nations. Building on this legacy, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung has been active in Israel since 1982. In cooperation with Israeli partners, KAS is committed to preserve and further develop German-Israeli relations, nurture our shared values of democracy and the rule of law, and promote ideas and initiatives for peaceful coexistence between Israel and its neighbors.