Democratic Transition Publications

From Moi to Kibaki: An Assessment of the Kenyan Transition

Jul 07, 2011
In the first of the Africa Program Occasional Paper Series, Johnnie Carson, Senior Vice President of the National Defense University analyzes the recent political transition in Kenya, and its significance for the future of U.S.-Kenya relations. Johnnie Carson was U.S. ambassador to Kenya from 1999 to 2002. more

Conflict and Cooperation: Making the Case for Environmental Pathways to Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region

Jul 07, 2011
Policy paper on ways in which natural resource cooperation can lead to peace in Central Africa more

Nouvelles du BLTP No. 10

Jul 07, 2011
Summary of BLTP activities and projects, including follow up on FDN officers and Burundian national police high command (PNB). Upcoming trainings will involve the (PNB), political parties and student leaders. French only. Published in March, 2007 more

Africa: In Search of Good Governance

Jul 07, 2011
A thematic collection from Igwe on Africa's needs and current events. more

Nouvelles du BLTP No. 9

Jul 07, 2011
Summary of BLTP activities and projects, including follow up on FDN officers and political party trainings. Upcoming trainings will involve the Burundian national police high command (PNB). French only. Published in December, 2006. more

Opportunities and Constraints for the Disarmament and Repatriation of Foreign Armed Groups in the DRC

Jul 07, 2011
On September 13, Hans Romkema of Conflict and Transition Consultancies (CTC) presented at the Wilson Center, his report on opportunities and constraints for the disarmament and repatriation (D&R) of foreign armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). more

Nouvelles du BLTP No. 8

Jul 07, 2011
Summary of BLTP activities and projects, including follow up on police and political party trainings, and upcoming trainings launched by the BLTP, French only. Published in September, 2006. more

Nouvelles du BLTP No. 5

Jul 07, 2011
Summary of BLTP activities and projects, including follow on police trainings, more information on the Mbuye project, and a new leadership structure within the BLTP, French only. Published in June, 2005. more

Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy

Jul 07, 2011
Beyond Free and Fair Elections: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy draws on worldwide experience since the mid-1980s to evaluate international election monitoring and domestic monitoring, and their contributions to democracy promotion and democratic change. In this book, Eric Bjornlund provides an overview of what election monitoring is, where it comes from, and how it is currently conducted, and he educes general lessons for democracy promotion. Björnlund reports on actual practice, including case studies of particular election monitoring efforts and the author's own experience in the field, and on a few previous efforts to synthesize guidelines and lessons learned.More about this title can be found on the Wilson Center Press website. more

Nouvelles du BLTP No. 4

Jul 07, 2011
Description of an cooperative development capacity-building initiative and agricultural training launched by the BLTP in Mbuye, French only. Published in April, 2005. more

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Way of the Knife

May 22, 2013 – May 29, 2013

This week on Dialogue at the Wilson Center our guest is Mark Mazzetti, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The New York Times. He is the author of the new book, “The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth.” We also spoke with Curtis Brainard, Editor of The Observatory, the Columbia Journalism Review’s “lens on the science press,” to survey the landscape of science journalism.

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