{"id":16479,"date":"2021-10-01T22:16:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T22:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulkagame.com\/?p=16479"},"modified":"2021-10-08T06:19:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T06:19:16","slug":"16479-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=16479","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame takes part in a Dinner Debate at World Policy Conference | Abu Dhabi, 1 October 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot talk about a theoretical democracy that is not built on what the actual citizens of that place desire for themselves, their families, and their societies. That\u2019s the confusion of, in some cases, contemporary liberal democracy with its singular emphasis on individual freedoms, identities, and desires, even at the expense of the common good.\u201d President Kagame | 2021 World Policy Conference.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To view photos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paulkagame\/albums\/72157719933728509\">click here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>To watch the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YEVuJDg947w\">click here\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We cannot talk about a theoretical democracy that is not built on what the actual citizens of that place desire for themselves, their families, and their societies. That\u2019s the confusion of, in some cases, contemporary liberal democracy with its singular emphasis on individual freedoms, identities, and desires, even at the expense of the common good.\u201d President Kagame | 2021 World Policy Conference. To view photos click here To watch the video click here\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16483,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479\/revisions\/16483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}