Archive for the ‘African Great Lakes’ Category
Events: DRC, elections, and literary resistance (NYC)
Three events from the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University (which continues to give awfully short notice for awfully awesome events, alas). Today! Election Series: DRC – “A Farewell to Arms?” Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm Location: Jerome Greene Annex, Columbia Law School, 435 West 116th Street The last presidential election in DRC, a massive [...]
Goodbye to a great Great Lakes emissary
The Associated Press reported last night that former US Congressman and, later, Great Lakes Special Envoy Howard Wolpe died on Tuesday. Congressman Wolpe had a long and distinguished career before his work in the Great Lakes. Then he served as Special Envoy from 1996-2001, under President Clinton, and again in 2009, at the request of [...]
“Order of Ghastliness”: This week in Numbers Masquerading as Meaningful
When I and others wrote recently about a problematic study allegedly clarifying the number of women raped in Congo, there was a common refrain in the comments: All this talk about talking about rape, and nobody’s doing anything! What’s the point of arguing about the numbers? I don’t subscribe to that view, for very many [...]
Nobel Women’s Initiative takes on sexual violence
The Nobel Women’s Initiative, which is exactly what you think it is, is taking up the cause of ending sexual violence in war. Tall order, I know, but if you want to eavesdrop on them — or better yet, participate in their conversation — you can follow a live blog here (started at 10 am [...]
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