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Democratic Republic of Congo/ Great Lakes Policy

"The Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo Perspectives from International Observers "
Nancy J. Walker
, President of AfricaNet
Tatiana Carayannis, Research Manager, UN Intellectual History Project
Tony Gambino and Paul Simo, Independent consultants
Great Lakes Policy Forum
September 7, 2006

“Election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Context and Results”
Herbert Weiss, Woodrow Wilson Center Senior Policy Scholar
September 20, 2006

"Natural Resource Management in Post-Elections DRC"
Anneke Van Woudenberg, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch
Ivan Rossignol, Senior Private Sector Development Specialist, World Bank
Great Lakes Policy Forum
October 5, 2006

"Securing Congo’s Future – What Comes Next?"
Caty Clement, Director, Crisis Group's Nairobi-based Central Africa Division
October 27, 2006

"Webs of War in the DRC: Hybrid Wars, Conflict Networks, and Multilateral Responses"
Tatiana Carayannis, Associate director of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF) at the Social Science Research Council
November 8, 2006  

Great Lakes Policy Forum
Thursday, May 3, 2007

Great Lakes Policy Forum
September 27, 2007

Great Lakes Policy Forum
December 6th, 2007

“Failing the Congo: Local Violence and International Intervention”
Severine Autesserre, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College and Columbia University
October 1, 2008

“Dying but Not Dead: is Resurrection of the Congo State Possible?”
Theodore Trefon, Contemporary History Section of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium
October 15, 2008

“Eastern DRC: Violence and Volatility in the Midst of Plenty?”
Delphine Schrank, Freelance Reporter, International Reporting Project, JHU-SAIS
November 5, 2008

“Legal Command and Local State Resilience in the DRC”
Pierre Englebert, Associate Professor of Politics, Pomona College
November 12, 2008

"State Building in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Challenge of the Margins"
Denis Tull, Senior Research Fellow German Institute for International and Security Affairs
January 28, 2009

"Security and Development in the Eastern DRC: Toward a Public-Private Partnership"
Herman Cohen , former Assistant Secretary of State for Africa and SAIS African Studies
Raymond Gilpin , US Institute of Peace
Patience Kabamba , Emory University
March 11, 2009

"Conflict in the Great Lakes"
Rene Lemarchand, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida
April 8, 2009

"Peace Building in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"
Francois Grignon, Director, Africa Program, International Crisis Group
April 17, 2009

"Negotiating and Contesting Public order in Eastern DR Congo"
Koen Vlassenroot, Professor and Conflict Research Group Coordinator, Ghent University
Arpil 24, 2009

"CSR in Practice: Inherent Global and Local Challenges. Case Studies from Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)"
Shari Knoerzer, Director, Social Responsibility and Community Development, Freeport McMoRan
October 5, 2009

"Congo Masquerade: why reform initiatives have failed"
Theodore Trefon, Director, Historical Studies, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
 October 8, 2009

"Rwanda, Reconciliation and the Mustard Seed Project"
Bishop John Rucyahana, Anglican Bishop, Shyira Diocese of Rwanda
October 19, 2009

"Getting MONUCs Role Right after a Year of Profound Failure: Realities, Options and Prospects"
Anthony Gambino, Independent Consultant Former USAID Director, DRC
November 18, 2009

"The Great African War" (DRC)
Filip Reyntjens, Professor of Law and Politics, University of Antwerp
Co-sponsored with the Great Lakes Policy Forum
December 3, 2009

"Conflict the DR Congo and the Role of International Actors: An NGO Perspective"
David Sullivan, The Enough Project
Maurice Carney, Friend of the Congo
March 10, 2010

"Does Democracy Have a Future in the DRC?"
Mvemba Dizolele, Visiting Scholar, SAIS/Stanford University
Click here to listen to Lecture
 April 2, 2010

"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
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

"State Building in the DRC: Theory and Practice" Part 2 (Click for Audio)
Crawford Young,
University of Wisconsin-Madison 
Mvemba Dizolele, SAIS African Studies Program
SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 500, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC
Thursday, April 14, 2011

"Une place, une responsabilité: Face au double défi des élections et de la reconstruction de la République Démocratique du Congo"
Remy Masamba,
UDPS Secrétaire du Parti, Chef de mission
SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 736, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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