"The Somalia Crisis"
Ken Menkhaus, Professor of Political Science, Davidson College
October 5, 2006
"Darfur: What Do We Do Now?"
John Prendergast, Senior Adviser at the International Crisis Group
October 23, 2006 "Accountability for Atrocity: Lessons from Rwanda's experience"
Justice Gerald Gahima, Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace
October 25, 2006
“Darfur Diaries: Message from Home”
Adam Shapiro is a human rights activist, filmmaker and student
African Studies Film Screening
December 6, 2006 "Somalia: Looking Ahead"
David Shinn, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University.
Andre LeSage, Assistant Professor and Academic Chair for Terrorism and Counterterrorism Africa Center for Strategic Studies
January 31, 2007 "Guinea: Transition or Conflict?"
Ambassador Dane F. Smith (ret), Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. Amb.
February 2, 2007 "A New Hope for Northern Uganda?"
Sarah Martin, Senior Advocate, Refugees International
Jeff Drumtra, Senior IDP Advisor, United States Agency for International Development,
John Prendergast, Senior Advisor, International Crisis Group
February 15, 2007 “The Escalating Crisis in Darfur”
Susan Rice, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1997-2001) and former Special Assistant to the President, National Security Council
February 21, 2007 "Rwanda Revisited: Balancing peace, justice and stability"
Matthew Levinger, Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Alison Des Forges, Senior Africa Advisor, Human Rights Watch
Constance Morrill, Independent Consultant
Great Lakes Policy Forum
March 22, 2007 "Failed States and the Evolution of Community Violence"
William Reno, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin
April 18, 2007 "Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa: A Quest for Paradigm Shift"
Severine Rugumamu, Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
April 25, 2007 "Somalia and the Horn of Africa"
Abdi Samatar, Professor of Geography and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota
September 28, 2007 "International Terrorism, Regional Security and the Convergence of Ethiopia-US Interests in the Horn of Africa"
Edmond Keller, Professor of Political Science, Director of the UCLA Globalization Research Center—Africa
October 29, 2007 "Hope to Horror: Strategies to Overcome Africa's State Crisis"
Richard Joseph, John Evans Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
February 8, 2008 "Liberia: from Conflict to Reconstruction and Development"
Steven Radelet, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
February 13, 2008
"Gender, Power and Peacemaking in Africa"
Aili Tripp, Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 27, 2008
"Dealing with Conflicting Parties"
USIP/ Peace Scholars Workshop
February 29, 2008
“Somalia: Anatomy of the Crisis”
Kenneth Menkhaus, Professor of Political Science, Davidson University
December 5, 2008 "Guinea after the Coup: New Opportunities for Reform"
Frederic Loua, Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy
February 13, 2009
"Reforming Africa's Armed Forces"
Col. Birame Diop, Sengalese Air Force and Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy
February 18, 2009 "Can Sudan Survive?"
Alex de Waal, Program Director, HIV/AIDS and Social Transformation, Social Science Research Council
February 25, 2009
"Film and Commentary: A Journey to Darfur"
Nick Clooney, Distinguished Journalist in Residence, American University, School of Communication
March 4, 2009 "Obama, AFRICOM and U.S. Security Policy Toward Africa"
Daniel Volman, Director, African Security Research Project.
September 9, 2009
"The Future of U.S. Military Involvement in Africa: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo"
Amb. William Garvelink, US Ambassador to DRC
Prosper Bunzigiye, Congolese Human Rights Activist
Lauren Ploch, Congressional Research Service
Emira Woods, moderator
Co-sponsored with the Institute for Policy Studies
October 1, 2009 "Politics and Land-Related Conflict in Africa: Examples from Ghana and Kenya"
Catherine Boone, Professor, University of Texas, Austin
November 4, 2009
"The role of community radio in post-conflict West Africa: Sierra Leone and Liberia"
Andrew Kromah, Independent Radio Network, Sierra Leone
November 10, 2009 "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
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
"Looking Beyond Gbagbo: Can the Ivory Coast Recover its Political and Economic Status?" (click for audio)
Dwayne Woods, Purdue University
Paul Melly, Associate Fellow Chatham House
SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 736, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 “The Violent Persecution of Refugees”
Ato Kwamena Onoma, Yale University
SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 736, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 "Violence, Partisanship and Transitional Justice in Zimbabwe" (Click for Audio)
Michael Bratton, Michigan State University
SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 500, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC
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