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Leadership Project Hosts Consultation on Goma Peace Process

Aug 11, 2008
On July 21, the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity hosted the first of two consultations on the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of a series devoted to fragile and failed states.

Distinguished African Scholar Betty Bigombe in the Washington Post

Jul 29, 2008
In a new Washington Post multimedia report, former Ugandan government minister Betty Bigombe discusses her involvement in negotiating peace in northern Uganda to end the civil war with the Lord's Resistance Army.

Podcast: Loren Landau Discusses Migration and Urban Transformation in South Africa

Jun 17, 2008
Loren Landau, Director of the Forced Migration Studies Program at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, sat down with CUSP Program Associate Allison Garland to discuss migration and urban transformation in South Africa. Landau was at the Wilson Center to participate in a major conference on "Transnational Migration to New Regional Centers".

Africa Program to Welcome Two Distinguished Fellows and Two Public Policy Scholars in 2008

Dec 20, 2007
The Wilson Center is pleased to announce that His Excellency Festus Mogae, current President of Botswana and Betty Oyella Bigombe, Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), will be joining the Africa Program as Distinguished Fellows.

Refugee return to and from the DRC

Nov 13, 2007
Figures and trends.UNHCR, 2007

Leadership Project & Africa Program Host African Diplomats for Two-Day Orientation

Nov 09, 2007
On November 8-9, 2007, the Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity partnered with the Committee on Capacity Building of the Washington-based African Diplomatic corps to host their second two-day orientation for African diplomats at the Wilson Center.

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Experts & Staff

  • Steve McDonald // Director, Africa Program and Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity
  • Mame Khady Diouf // Program Associate, Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity
  • Derek Langford // Program Assistant, Africa Program