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Program(s): Congo Research Group, Peace and Security

Evolving Ethnicities: New Carnegie Corporation podcast

Sagal Abshir, CIC Non-Resident Fellow and former Somali government advisor, consultant, and researcher features on the first episode of the Carnegie Corporation's new Peacebuilders podcast, Evolving Ethnicities.

Publication Date: May 03, 2018

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Sagal Abshir

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Peace and Security

United Nations Peacekeeping Offensive Operations: Theory and Doctrine

by Antonio Garcia

Publication Date: Sep 28, 2017

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Antonio Garcia

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Peace and Security

Topic(s): United Nations

How the AU can Promote Transitional Justice in South Sudan

The African Union is mandated to help South Sudan to ensure accountability for past human rights abuses through the establishment of a hybrid court. This mandate is derived from the Agreement for the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan, signed in 2015. The agreement also makes provision for a Commission for Truth, Reconciliation and Healing and a Compensation and Reparation Authority. In the face of continued violence in South Sudan, how can the African Union assist in enabling an effective transitional justice strategy for the country?

Publication Date: Oct 09, 2017

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Liezelle Kumalo, Amanda Lucey

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises, United Nations

Program(s): Peace and Security

Human Rights Workshop

Jason Stearns, CIC Senior Fellow, chaired a Human Rights Workshop titled, "Congo Past and Present: Reflections on Rights-Based Advocacy After Twenty Years of Conflict" on Thursday September 28 at the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale University School of Law.

Event Date: Sep 28, 2017

Author(s): Jason Stearns

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Topic(s): Crises, Humanitarian Crises

Program(s): Congo Research Group

Kabila and family getting rich at DRC's expense

Joseph Kabila, like Mobutu Sese Seko before him, has used his position as Democratic Republic of Congo president to amass wealth for himself and his family. Unfortunately democracy hasn’t changed the equation that political power has been the road to self-enrichment. As new political elites have come to the fore, the race to fill their personal coffers has been accompanied by little redistribution of wealth by the government, scant investment in infrastructure, job creation or social services.

Publication Date: Aug 13, 2017

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Shannon Ebrahim, Jason Stearns

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Congo Research Group

Topic(s): Crises

Dickinson College President Margee Ensign leads session at NYU roundatable exploring Religious identity and extremism

For many generations, people of different religions can live side by side in peace. Then those same religions become the basis for violent conflict, neighbor turning on neighbor. Why? Can it be prevented? Can the conflict be peacefully resolved? How?

Publication Date: Jul 13, 2017

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Dickinson College, Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Peace and Security

Topic(s): Crises, Global Governance

Owning God: An Identity Based View of Violent Extremism

Violent extremism is caused by an avowed identity derived from strong religious beliefs and a strong in-group membership that stigmatizes and dehumanizes other groups and beliefs.

Publication Date: Jul 13, 2017

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Peace and Security

Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises

The U.N.’s Tragic Inaction on Congo

In mid-March, armed men walked Michael J. Sharp and Zaida Catalán through the savanna in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai region, sat them down and shot them. A low-resolution video captured the executions. Mr. Sharp, an American, and Ms. Catalán, a Swede, were United Nations sanctions monitors, charged with finding out who was responsible for human rights abuses and supporting armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Publication Date: Jun 14, 2017

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Jason Stearns, Ida Sawyer

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Congo Research Group

Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises, Transnational Threats

Afrique/ONU: quelles attentes?

Alexandra Novosseloff et Jean-Marc de la Sablière parlent avec Marie-France Chatin sur la décision des EEUU de se retirer de l’Accord de Paris sur le climat. La décision, un message particulièrement difficile pour l’Afrique, continent parmi les plus impactés par le réchauffement climatique. Les menaces américaines sur le budget de l’ONU, et principalement les opérations de maintien de la paix sont autant d’interrogations supplémentaires pour le continent.

Publication Date: Jun 11, 2017

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Marie-France Chatin, Alexandra Novosseloff, Jean-Marc de La Sablière

Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Peace and Security

Topic(s): United Nations