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Kabila’s Trump Card

He pledged to “bomb the shit” out of ISIS and suggested that America wouldn’t automatically defend its NATO allies, but beyond that Donald Trump hardly mentioned foreign policy on his renegade march to the White House. Sub-Saharan Africa barely registered, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), well, it might as well not exist.

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Nov 18, 2016
Jason Stearns
United States, Sub-Saharan Africa
Peace and Security
Global Governance

Spotlight: Collaboration is essential for effective peacebuilding

Research in Liberia and South Sudan will inform policy on how to improve peacebuilding in Africa and globally.

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Nov 09, 2016
Amanda Lucey
Sub-Saharan Africa
Peace and Security
Fragile States, Peace Operations, United Nations

L’ONU fait son autocritique au Soudan du Sud

Une enquête met en cause le comportement des casques bleus en marge des affrontements qui ont éclaté à Juba, la capitale, en juillet. Le chef de la mission a été relevé de ses fonctions.

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Nov 02, 2016
Alexandra Novosseloff
Sub-Saharan Africa
Peace and Security
United Nations

Impasse in the Congo: What Do the People Think?

© AFP Photo/Desirey Minkoh

© AFP Photo/Desirey Minkoh

The Bureau d’Études, de Recherches, et Consulting International (BERCI) and the Congo Research Group (CRG) at New York University conducted a nationally representative political opinion poll across the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Between May and September 2016, researchers interviewed 7,545 people in face-to-face interviews. Some of our main findings are:

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Nov 02, 2016
Jason Stearns
Sub-Saharan Africa
Congo Research Group

Congo Research Group

Congo Research Group (CRG) is an independent, non-profit research project dedicated to understanding the violence that affects millions of Congolese.  It carries out rigorous research on different aspects of the conflict. Its first report, for example, investigated who is behind a series of massacres in the Beni region, while others reports look at links between elections and conflict, and at armed groups in the Kivus region. All of its research is informed by deep historical and social knowledge of the problem at hand, and it often invests months of field research, speaking with hundreds of people to produce a report. Based at CIC, the CRG publishes in English and French.

Report: The Perilous Election Battle

Four months before the end of the mandate of President Joseph Kabila, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is on the edge of a deep political crisis. The government has created multiple artificial delays in the electoral process, making it impossible to respect the constitution and hold fair and transparent elections before the end of the year. Furthermore, the Constitutional Court has issued a controversial interpretation of the constitution that authorizes President Kabila to remain in power until his successor is elected.

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Aug 22, 2016
Jason Stearns
Sub-Saharan Africa
Peace and Security
Humanitarian Crises

Democratic Republic of Congo Government Fails to Investigate Targeted Killings

DR Congo president Joseph Kabila may remain in power past his constitutionally mandated two-term limit if the December election is delayed, say Jason Stearns of the Congo Research Group and Kambale Musavuli of Friends of the Congo. The full video and transcript are available below.

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Apr 20, 2016
Kambale Musavuli, Jason Stearns
Sub-Saharan Africa
Peace and Security
Crises

Press Statement Regarding the Expulsion of Jason Stearns from the DR Congo

The Center on International Cooperation is deeply concerned by the expulsion of Jason Stearns from the Democratic Republic of Congo on April 7, 2016.

The official reason for the expulsion by the Congolese authorities was the “undesirability” of Mr. Stearns, the director of CIC’s Congo Research Group (CRG). They also referred to the recent report by CRG on the massacres around Beni.

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Apr 11, 2016
Jason Stearns
Sub-Saharan Africa
Peace and Security

GPOR Annual Compilation now available via print-on-demand

For almost a decade, the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations (ARGPO) was the flagship publication of the Center on International Cooperation (CIC). During that time, CIC also released three editions of the Review of Political Missions.

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Mar 21, 2016
Center on International Cooperation
China, Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Horn of Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
Global Governance, United Nations
Peace and Security

Who are the Killers of Beni?

Since October 2014, the region around the town of Beni in north eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has been the site of some of the worst massacres in the country’s recent history. Over five hundred people have been killed and tens of thousands have fled their homes. The UN mission and the Congolese government have publicly stated that the massacres are the work of Ugandan rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

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Mar 22, 2016
Jason Stearns
Sub-Saharan Africa
Crises, Humanitarian Crises
Congo Research Group

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