CFR Conference Call on “Update on the Congo”
The Council on Foreign Relations is holding a Conference Call with Jason Stearns who is the director of the Usalama Project. The topic of the discussion is “Update on the Congo.” Stearns is an expert in the Congo and works with the Usalama Project to better understand what is at the root of the on-going violence in the Congo.
Wednesday, March 26
12-1pm
Rowe 234
Please RSVP to ashley.landwehr@uconn.edu.
As background for the discussion, you may wish to review the following materials:
1) Jason Stearns, "Congo's Sudden Calm: A Break in Rwandan Meddling and the Defeat of the M23 Rebels," Foreign Affairs, November 11, 2013.
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140255/jason-stearns/congos-sudden-calm?gp=137403:73bc120e54946d16&cid=emc-FA_Congo_Stearns-032614
2) Jason Stearns, "Helping Congo Help Itself: What It Will Take to End Africa's Worst War," Foreign Affairs, September/October 2013.
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139648/jason-stearns/helping-congo-help-itself?gp=136846:58b2469a54ac2f05&cid=emc-FA_Congo2_Stearns-032614
3) John Campbell, "Congo," "Africa in Transition," CFR.org.
http://blogs.cfr.org/campbell/?s=Congo&submit.x=0&submit.y=0?cid=emc-Blog_Campbell_Congo-032514
For more information, contact: Devin Opotzner at honorsevents@uconn.edu