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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
Prevention and Peacebuilding

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
Prevention and Peacebuilding

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

ICC Convicts Former Congo Vice President Bemba of War Crimes

The International Criminal Court found Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former rebel leader and presidential candidate in the Democratic Republic of Congo, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

“The chamber finds that Bemba is criminally responsible for murder, rape, pillage and war crimes” in the Central African Republic in 2002 and 2003, Judge Sylvia Steiner said in a ruling read at The Hague-based court on Monday. Bemba had faced two counts of crimes against humanity and three counts of war crimes related to murder, rape and pillaging committed by his troops in the country.

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Mar 21, 2016
Thomas Wilson, Corina Rhue, Jason Stearns
Sub-Saharan Africa
Prevention and Peacebuilding
Crises, Humanitarian Crises

Congo Army Involved in Attacks on Civilians, Group Says

Members of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s army have been involved in attacks on civilians in the country’s northeast that have left more than 500 people dead since 2014, the Congo Research Group said.

Congo’s government and the United Nations previously blamed the assaults on the Allied Democratic Forces, an insurgent group originally based in Uganda that has operated along Congo’s border since the late 1990’s.

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Mar 21, 2016
Thomas Wilson, Jason Stearns
Sub-Saharan Africa
Prevention and Peacebuilding
Crises, Humanitarian Crises

Congo Opposition to Hold Protest Over Jailing of Youth Activists

A pro-democracy group in the Democratic Republic of Congo said it will lead a protest Tuesday to demand the release of two youth activists who’ve been held in prison for 12 months awaiting sentencing.

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Mar 16, 2016
Thomas Wilson, Jason Stearns
Sub-Saharan Africa
Prevention and Peacebuilding

Rwanda should have been a wake-up call. Why do the crises continue?

Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we’re talking about the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. Need a primer? Catch up here.

Sarah Cliffe and Hanny Megally serve as director and senior fellow, respectively, at the New York University Center on International Cooperation.

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Feb 22, 2016
Sarah Cliffe, Hanny Megally
Sub-Saharan Africa
Prevention and Peacebuilding
Crises, Fragile States, Peace Operations

Seven Big Crisis Management Questions for a Disorderly World in 2016

International conflict management is not necessarily a rewarding occupation for people who have neat and orderly minds. Well-made plans tend to fall apart in fast-moving crises. As I noted in a chapter in a book on the Security Council published earlier this year, the recent history of United Nations peace operations is basically a story of “one damn thing after another.” U.N.

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Dec 28, 2015
Richard Gowan
Europe, Middle East, Libya, United States, Sub-Saharan Africa
Prevention and Peacebuilding
Global Governance, International Security, United Nations

A rare map of the most complex conflict on earth

The war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was one of the most complex conflicts on Earth.

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Dec 16, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
Prevention and Peacebuilding
Crises, Fragile States, Humanitarian Crises

The arrest of Ladislas Ntaganzwa

CIC Senior Fellow and Congo expert Jason Stearns speaks with the BBC about the arrest of Ladislas Ntaganzwa.  Listen to the full interview by clicking the title or .mp3 below:

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Dec 10, 2015
Jason Stearns
Sub-Saharan Africa
Prevention and Peacebuilding

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