Nonpartisan citizen election observation organizations around the world have made great strides in monitoring and mitigating electoral related violence, though in many countries groups have only recently begun such efforts. It is important to develop and systematize methodologies in this field. This new manual published by NDI draws on lessons shared by nonpartisan citizen election monitoring groups at several NDI-facilitated events and workshops addressing electoral violence monitoring and mitigation.

KABUL – The National Democratic Institute (NDI) today expressed deep concern over the dispute emerging from Afghanistan’s June 14 presidential runoff election. Candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah has withdrawn his supporters from observing the vote tally and threatened to reject the election results, citing what he asserts is the Independent Election Commission’s (IEC’s) high estimated turnout rate as well as bias on the part of IEC officials.

KABUL - Setting the stage for the historic transfer of power from one democratically elected government to the next, Afghans came out in large numbers June 14 to participate in the nation's first presidential runoff election. As in the first round voting on April 5, voters defied attempts by extremist groups to disrupt the voting, according to a preliminary statement by the National Democratic Institute (NDI).