"Elections Review: Rwanda & Burundi" Almami Cyllah, Africa Region Director, IFES Nancy Welch, Assistant Program Officer, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Moderator: Peter Lewis, Director, Africa Studies Program and Associate Professor, SAIS Great Lakes Policy Forum September 8th
"Reporting from Africa to Asia" SAIS Rome Building room 806, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. October 4th
"Food Sovereignty and Land Grabs In Africa" Mamadou Goita, Director of a Food Security Program in Bamako/Mali Rachel Smolker, Biofuel Watch Matt Kavanagh, Health Gap Luis Sitoi, Embassy of Mozambique (invited) Moderated by Emira Woods, Co-Director of IPS' Foreign Policy In Focus SAIS Rome Building 1619 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC October 7 "African Governance in the Post-Independence Era" Joel Barkan, Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Iowa Michael Bratton, Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University Said Adejumobi,Said Adejumobi is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Lagos State University, and currently a Governance Adviser at the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja, Nigeria. SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 736, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC October 27
"The Political Dynamics of Conflict in the Great Lakes Region" Gerard Prunier, University of Paris SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 500, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC Monday, November 1, 2010 "Pulling Nigeria From The Brink" Pastor Tunde Bakare, Convener; Save Nigeria Group SAIS Rome Building room 200, 1619 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC November 3
"The Nigeria Petroleum Industry Bill: Industry Perspectives and Regulatory Challenges" Paul Arinze, British Gas Nigeria Basil Omoiyi, Former Country Chair, Shell Nigeria, and Senior Advisor to Shell Alexandra Gillies, Revenue Watch Institute Charles McPherson, Independent Consultant Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani), CISLAC Uche Igwe, Public Policy Scholar Woodrow Wilson International Scholars Center Moderated by Peter Lewis, Director, Africa Studies Program and Associate Professor, SAIS SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 500, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC November 3
“Monitoring and Evaluation in Africa” Jennifer Bisgard, SAIS Alumnus SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 5736, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC November 17
"Accender Africa Launch" Cinnamon Dornsife, Acting Director, International Development Program, SAIS JHU Peter Lewis, Director, African Studies Program, SAIS JHU Obiageli Ezekwesili, Vice President, Africa Region, World Bank Group, Founding Member of Transparency International Matthias Chika Mordi, Founer and CEO of Accender Africa Kenny Auditorium, 1740 Massachusettes Ave, NW Washington DC November 29
"Congo: The UN Mapping Report and The Responsibility to Justice" Mvemba Dizolele, SAIS Visiting Scholar, Independent journalist Carina Tertsakian, Senior Researcher at Human Rights Watch, Africa Division Peter Rosenblum, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein Clinical Professorship of Human Rights Law, Columbia Law School Anthony Gambino, Independent Consultant, former USAID Mission Director for the DRC Laura Seay, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Morehouse College Moderator: Peter Lewis, Director of the African Studies Program at SAIS Kenny Auditorium 1740 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036 December 2
"After the Referendum: The Future of Sudan and South Sudan" Andrew Natsios, Georgetown University, U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan in 2006-7 Omer Ismail, The Enough Project SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 736, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC January 26
“The Violent Persecution of Refugees” Ato Kwamena Onoma, Yale University SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 736, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC February 16
Conference: Africa's New Era: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future March 1-2, 2011 Subject: The conference will explore the key political and economic factors that have contributed to the acceleration of the region’s development. Additionally, the conference will identify the key risks and opportunities for African development looking ahead. Click here for more information
"The Egyptian Uprising: Context and Contestation" Dr. Diane Singerman, School of Public Affairs, American University SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 736, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC March 9
"New Approaches to Mining and Development" Michael D. Jarvis, World Bank Institute, Click here for PPT Presentation Heinz Pley, McKinsey Institute, Click here for PPT Presentation SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 736, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC March 16
“Wireless Democracy: Innovation in Africa” Wayan Vota, Inveneo Matthias Chika Mordi, Accender Africa Sean McDonald, FrontlineSMS Paul M. Lubeck, Global Information Internship Program, UC Santa Cruz Katie Dowd, Advisor for Innovation, Department of State Room 203, Rome Building 1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington DC March 29
"State Building in the DRC: Theory and Practice" Part 1 Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University Severine Autesserre, Columbia University SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 736, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC March 30
"Nigeria: The April 2011 Elections and Beyond" (Click for audio)| Dr. Attahiru Jega, Chairman(Click here for PowerPoint) of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria Dr. Christopher Fomunyoh, NDI Senior Associate for Africa Dr. Peter M. Lewis, Director of the SAIS African Studies Program Carlo Binda, NDI Nigeria Senior Resident Director Dr. Gwendolyn Mikell, Georgetown University Professor of Anthropology and Foreign Service Richard L. Klein, NDI Senior Advisor for Election Processes Eric Guttschuss, Nigeria researcher at Human Rights Watch Jennifer Cooke, Director of the CSIS Africa Program Dr. Pauline Baker, President Emeritus at The Fund for Peace Tuesday, May 10, 12:30-4:30 SAIS Kenney Auditorium, 1740 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC
