Great Lakes Policy Forum Archive
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September 2012
Economics and the Consolidation of Peace in Burundi
Speakers: Innocent Muhozi, Journalist; Director, Radio and Television Renaissance; President, Observatoire de la Presse au Burundi
Dave Peterson, Senior Director, Africa Program, NED
Albert Zeufack, Sector Manager, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Africa Region, World Bank
Moderator: Andrea Bartoli, Dean, The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR), George Mason University
August 2012
Policy Implications of the Recent Development in North Kivu
Speakers: Baudoin Hamuli Kabarhuza, National Coordinator-International Conference on the Great Lakes Region- Kinshasa, DRC.
Steven Koutsis, Acting Director of the Office of Central African Affairs, U.S. State Department
Mark Schneider, Senior Vice President, International Crisis Group
Moderator: Steve McDonald, Consulting Director of the Africa Program and Project on Leadership and Building Capacity, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
June 2012
Reflections on Burundi’s Cinquantenaire
Speakers: Dr. Elavie Ndura, Professor of Education and Academic Program Coordinator of the Multilingual/Multicultural Education program (MME),George Mason University’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD)
Sixte Vigny Nimuraba, Shinnyo Fellow, George Mason University
Joel Nkurabagaya, Diplomat, Embassy of Burundi
Moderator: Sandra Melone, Executive Vice President, Search for Common Ground
April 2012
Lake Albert Oil, a “Resource Curse” for Uganda?
Speakers: Joel Barkan, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Iowa; Senior Associate, CSIS Africa Program
Alan Gelb, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Peter Veit, Project Manager, Equity, Poverty and Environment Initiative, World Resources Institute
Discussant: Dr. Joshua B. Rubongoya, Professor, Political Science, Roanoke Collage
Moderator: Raymond Gilpin, Director, Sustainable Economies Center of Innovation, U.S. Institute of Peace
March 2012
Emerging Women’s Leadership in the Great Lakes Region
Speakers: Veronica Isala Eragu Bichetero, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, October 2011-April 2012, USIP; Lawyer and senior consultant with EDG Venture Consult
Nita Evele, President and Co-Founder Coalition of Pluralists and Patriots of Congo
Moderator: Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Writer, foreign policy analyst and independent journalist
February 2012
Land Conflict in Burundi, Lessons Learned and New Challenges
Speakers: Kelsey Jones-Casey, Research Associate & Land Tenure Specialist, Landesa
Frances Fortune, Africa Regional Director, Search for Common Ground
Moderator: Elavie Ndura, Professor of Education and Academic Program Coordinator of the Multilingual/Multicultural Education program (MME) in the George Mason University’s College of Education and Human Development
July 2011
Refugee Assistance in the DRC: Filling the Humanitarian Gap
Speakers: Wendy Henning, Program Officer, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, US Department of State
Mike Jobbins, Africa Program Manager, Search for Common Ground
Buti Kale, Deputy Regional Representative, UNHCR
Peter Orr, Senior Advocate, DRC and Sudan, Refugees International
Moderator: Jackie Aldrette, AVSI-USA
Notes from this forum (pdf)
June 2011
High Stakes in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Speakers: Joshua Marks, Central Africa Program Officer, National Endowment for Democracy
Tia Palermo, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
Moderator: Laura Seay, Assistant Professor, Morehouse University and Blogger,TexasinAfrica
Notes from this forum (pdf)
May 2011
The Lord's Resistance Army: Implementing Policy to End an Enduring Problem
Speakers: Karl Wycoff, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Africa
Michael Poffenberger, President, Resolve
Moderator: Alan Goulty, Former UK Ambassador to Sudan
Notes from this forum (pdf)
April 2011
South Sudan: The New Regional Player
Speakers: Raymond Gilpin, Associate Vice President, Sustainable Economies Centers of Innovation, USIP
Andrea Lari, Regional Director, Refugees International
Jonathan Temin, Director, Sudan Program, USIP
Moderator: Alan Goulty
Notes from this forum (pdf)
March 2011
Human Security in the DRC: Seeking Solutions from the Ground Up
Speakers: Susan Braden, Senior Policy Advisory, Office of Global Women’s Issues, State Department
Nita Evele, Executive Board Member, Congo Global Action
Judithe Registere, Outreach and Development Director, Women for Women International
Moderator: Sandra Melone, Executive Vice President, Search for Common Ground
Notes from this forum (pdf)
December 2010
Congo: The UN Mapping Report and the Responsibility to Justice
Speakers: Mvemba Dizolele, SAIS Visiting Scholar, Independent journalist
Carina Tertsakian, Senior Researcher at Human Rights Watch, Africa Division
Peter Rosenblum, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein Clinical Professorship of Human Rights Law, Columbia Law School
Implications for regional and U.S. foreign policy
Anthony Gambino, Independent Consultant, former USAID Mission Director for the DRC
Laura Seay, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Morehouse College
Moderator: Peter Lewis Director of the African Studies Program at SAIS
Notes from this forum (pdf)
November 2010
Burundi: A Fragile State on the Precipice
Speakers: Dave Peterson, Senior Director, Africa Program, National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Adrien Sindayigaya, Director, Search for Common Ground, Burundi
Lena Slachmuijlder, Director, Search for Common Ground, DRC
Narcisse Kalisa, Director, Search for Common Ground, Rwanda, Pact
Moderator: Howard Wolpe: Former Special Advisor on the Great Lakes Region to the Obama Administration
Notes from this forum (pdf)
October 2010
Extraction in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Implementing Legislation to End Suffering
Speakers: RCatherine Robinson, Director, High Tech Trade Policy and International Economic Affairs, National Association of Manufacturers
Peter Rosenblum, Professor, Columbia Law School
David Sullivan, Policy Manager, Enough Project
Assheton Stewart Carter , Senior Vice President Global Engagement and Strategy, Pact
Moderator: Scott Edwards, Director, Africa Advocacy and Science for Human Rights Program, Amnesty International
Notes from this forum (pdf)
September 2010
Elections Review: Burundi and Rwanda
Speakers: Rebecca Feeley, Program Officer, National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Nancy Welch, Program Officer, National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Moderator: Peter Lewis, Director, Africa Studies program and Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS
July 2010
UN Peacekeeping and Human Rights: The Problems and Possibilities of Military Interventions
Speakers: Major General (Ret.) Patrick Cammaert, Former Commander of the Eastern Division, MONUC
Colonel (Ret.) Thomas Dempsey, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Jon Elliott, Africa Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch
Moderator: Tony Gambino, Independent Contractor
Notes from this forum (pdf)
June 2010
Implications of the Rwandan Elections
Co-Hosted by the National Democratic Institute
Speakers: Gaston Aín, Rwanda Country Director, National Democratic Institute
Anastase Shyaka, Executive Secretary of the Rwanda Governance Advisory Council
Susan Page, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs
Nancy Welch, Program Officer, National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Moderator:Martin Kimani, Deputy Director, Ansari Africa Center at the Atlantic Council
Notes from this forum (pdf)
April 2010
A Look Ahead: The Upcoming Burundi Elections
Speakers: Almami Cyllah, IFES Africa Program Director, Brian Stout, USAID Desk Officer, Edouard Bizimana, First Counselor of the Embassy of Burundi
Moderator: Mame-Khady Diouf, Woodrow Wilson Center Africa Program Associate
Notes from this forum (pdf)
March 2010
Title: A Report From the Field: A Conversation with Howard Wolpe
Speaker: Howard Wolpe, US Special Advisor for the Great Lakes Region
Moderator: Susan Melone, Executive Vice President, Search for Common Ground
Notes from this forum (pdf)
December 2009
Title: The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics 1996-2006
Speaker: Filip Reyntjens
November 2009
Title: How to Promote Peace and Stabilization in the Eastern Congo: A View from Goma
Speaker: Willet Weeks, Special Advisor to USAID for Peace and Stabilization in Eastern D.R. Congo Development Alternatives, Inc.
Facilitator: Tony Gambino
October 2009
Title: The ICC in Africa: Impartial Judge or Neo-Colonial Project?
Speakers: Ruth Wedgwood, Suliman Baldo, Charles Villa-Vicencio
Facilitator: Steve Utterwulghe
Notes from this forum [pdf]
August 2009
Title: Rwanda: Africa’s Biggest Success Story?
Speakers: Leon Morse, Jonathan Elliott, Raymond Gilpin
Facilitator: Dorina Bekoe
Notes from this forum [pdf]
June 2009
Title: Burundi Refugees: Repatriation, Land Disputes and Tanzania
Speakers: Wendy Henning, Brian Sage, Margaret McKelvey
Facilitator: Rebecca Besant
Notes from this forum [pdf]
May 2009
Title: A Special Event Commemorating Alison Des Forges
Speaker: Anneke Van Woudenberg
Facilitator: Joshua Marks
April 2009
Title: 15 Years after the Rwanda Genocide: Successes, Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: James Kimonyo, Michael Arietti, William Ferroggiaro
Facilitator: Howard Wolpe
Notes from this forum [pdf]
March 2009 – Special Meeting
Title: Briefing on the Eastern DRC: Repatriation of FDLR combatants and their dependents from DRC to Rwanda
Speaker: Bruno Donat
Facilitator: Herbert Weiss
February 2009
Title: In the Wake of Laurent Nkunda’s Arrest: What Next for the DRC?
Speakers: David Smith, Herbert Weiss
Facilitator: Tony Gambino
Notes from this forum [pdf]
December 2008
Title: Assessing MONUC
Speakers: Tony Gambino, Erin Weir, Serge Tshamala
Facilitator: Matthew Levinger, Program Officer, USIP
Notes from this forum [pdf]
November 2008
Title: The Future of the LRA in Northern Uganda
Speakers: Colin Thomas-Jensen, Coralie Bryant, Helena Cobban
Facilitator: Joel Charny, Refugees International
Notes from this forum [pdf]
September 2008
Title: Burundi and the FNL: Dialogue and Democracy
Speakers: Jon Greenwald, Howard Wolpe, Ambassador Celestin Niyongabo
Facilitator: Tony Gambino, Independent Consultant
Notes from this forum [pdf]
March 2007
Title: Rwanda Revisited: Balancing Justice, Peace & Stability
Speakers: Alison Des Forges, Constance Morrill
Facilitator: Matthew Levinger, U.S. Holocaust Museum
Notes from this forum [pdf]
January 2007
Title: Burundi at Peace: What Does it Mean?
Speakers: Maria Burnett, Howard Wolpe, Peter Uvin
Facilitator: Dorina Bekoe, USIP
Notes from this forum [pdf]
October 2006
Title: Conflict and Natural Resources: The Case of the DRC
Speakers: [information not available]
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
June 2006
Title: Cross-Border Conflict in the Great Lakes: Regional Problems Demand Regional Solutions
Speakers: Ambassador (ret.) Joyce Leader, John Katunga Murhula, Mark L. Schneider
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
May 2006
Title: The Long and Winding Road to Democracy: Choices and Challenges in the DRC's Election Process
Speakers: Reverend Appollinaire Muholongu Malumalu, Ambassador Donald Yamamoto
Facilitator: Joel Charney, Refugees International
Notes from this forum [pdf]
April 2006
Title: Humanitarian Consequences of the Conflict in Katanga
Speakers: Andrea Lari, Rick Neal, Michael Neuman
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
March 2006
Title: The Congolese Elections: Preparing for the Day After
Speakers: Suleiman Baldo, Howard Wolpe
Facilitator: Sandra Melone, Search for Common Ground
Notes from this forum [pdf]
May 2005
Title: Democracy and Conflict Assessment in the DRC: The Road to Elections
Speakers: Rene Lemarchand, David Pottie, Michael Neuman
Facilitator: Ozong Agborsangaya
Notes from this forum [pdf]
April 2005
Title: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Link between Conflict Prevention and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Program (PRSP)
Speaker: Francesca Bomboko
Facilitator: Ozong Agborsangaya
Notes from this forum [pdf]
March 2005
Title: Democratic Republic of Congo: The Road to Elections
Speakers: Valentin Mubake Numbi, Dorothée Gizenga Ngolo
Facilitator: Chris Hennemeyer
Notes from this forum [pdf]
February 2005
Title: Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda: Dynamics, Obstacles and Opportunities
Speakers: Paul Musafiri Nalwango, Suliman Baldo, Richard Sezibera, Alison Des Forges
Facilitator: Ozong Agborsangaya
Notes from this forum [pdf]
November 2004
Title: Obstacles and Opportunities in Burundi and the DRC
Speakers: Fidele Lumeya, Andrea Lari, Anthony Gambino
Facilitator: Ozong Agborsangaya
Notes from this forum [pdf]
October 2004
Title: Updates on the DRC's Transition Process
Speakers: Jean-Pierre Bemba, Parfait Moukoko
Facilitator: Ozong Agborsangaya
Notes from this forum [pdf]
July 2004
Title: Crisis Unfolding in the DRC
Speakers: Hans Romkema, Herbert Weiss, Jason Stearns
Facilitator: Ozong Agborsangaya
Notes from this forum [pdf]
June 2004
Title: Preparing the International Conflict on the Great Lakes Region
Speakers: Ibrahima Fall, John Prendergast, Peter Uvin
Facilitator: Ozong Agborsangaya
Notes from this forum [pdf]
April 2004
Title: Impunity and Accountability in the Great Lakes: Remembering Rwanda
Speakers: Louise Mushikiwabo, Simone Monasebian, Esq., Thierry Cruvellier, Lars Waldorf
Facilitator: Ozong Agborsangaya
Notes from this forum [pdf]
March 2004
Title: Trauma, Healing and Reconciliation
Speakers: Adrien Niyongabo, Paul Simo
Facilitator: Learned Dees
Notes from this forum [pdf]
February 2004
Title: Peace and Reconciliation in the DRC
Speakers: Azarias Ruberwa, Herbert F. Weiss
Facilitator: Howard Wolpe
Notes from this forum [pdf]
December 2003
Title: The Role of Women in the Aftermath of Conflict
Speakers: Elizabeth Powley, Krista Riddley, Laketch Dirasse
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
November 2003
Title: Analyzing the Peace Process in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Speakers: Paul Simo, John Prendergast, Howard Wolpe, Ambassador Antoine Ntamobwa
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
October 2003
Title: A Celebration of the 100th GLPF: Analyzing the past, present and future of the Great Lakes Region
Notes from this forum [pdf]
August 2003
Title: The Involvement of the South African Government in the DRC Peace Process
Speaker: Honorable Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi
Notes from this forum [pdf]
July 2003
Title: Policy Implications of the Political Dynamics in Burundi and the DRC
Speakers: Pascal Kambale, Howard Wolpe, Alexis Sinduhije
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
May 2003
Title: The Impact of HIV/AIDS and Armed Conflict on Children
Speakers: Michael Despines, Les Roberts, John Williamson, Julia Freedson, Tony Tate
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
April 2003
Title: Economic Performance in the Great Lakes Region
Speakers: Ingo Wiederhofer, Natacha Meden, Ellen van der Laan
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
March 2003
Title: Current US Policy toward the Great Lakes Region
Speakers: Charles Snyder, Steve Wisecarver, Jennifer Cooke, Susanna Campbell
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
February 2003
Title: Current US Policy toward the Great Lakes Region
Speakers: Charles Snyder, Steve Wisecarver, Jennifer Cooke, Susanna Campbell
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
January 2003
Title: Gacaca: Rwanda's Justice System
Speakers: Alison Des Forges, Peter Uvin, Olivier Kamitatu, Anne Edgerton
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
September 2002
Title: Analyzing the Peace Process in the DRC
Speakers: Jacques Depelchin
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
July 2002
Title: Towards the End of War in the DRC
Speakers: Ambassador Kikaya bin Karubi, Dr. Suliman Baldo
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
June 2002 – Special Meeting
Title: The Regional Dimensions of the Conflict in the DRC
Speakers: Malik Chaka, Reverend Daniel Ntoni-Nzinga
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
June 2002
Title: Challenges Facing the Transitional Peace Process in Burundi
Speakers: Ambassador Richard Bogosian, Joel Frushone, Anne Edgerton, Howard Wolpe
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
May 2002
Title: The Progress and Outcome of the Inter-Congolese Dialogue
Speakers: Ambassador Ould-Abdallah, Ambassador Sezibera, Dr. Cindy Courville
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
April 2002 – Special Meeting
Title: MONUC and Phase III activities of Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration in the DRC
Speaker: Margaret Carey
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
April 2002
Title: Inter-Congolese Dialogue: Obstacles to Peace and the Way Forward
Speakers: Ambassador Faida Mitifu, Herbert Weiss, Susan Collins-Marks
Facilitator: [information not available]
Notes from this forum [pdf]
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