Integrating women into environmental decision-making is critical to addressing the issues arising from climate change.
Economics by Other Means: War, Poverty, and Conflict Minerals in Africa
With support from Moscow, Washington, and the former imperial capitals no longer assured, armed groups in Africa now compete for riches in diamond mines, gold pits, oil wells, and rare earth deposits.
The M23 Surrenders: A Pyrrhic Victory in Eastern Congo
Given the roots of the ongoing conflict in North Kivu, military victory amounts to exchanging one group of exploiters for another.
Democratic Republic of the Congo Test Case for ‘New World Order’
The UN helped the Congolese army and international prosecutors stand ready to help try war crimes.
Blood Phones and the Congo
Although most of the developed world has long been unburdened with knowledge of the violence in the DRC, the slaughter is intricately linked to electronic components carried by millions of people in the United States and Europe.
Ntaganda: What? No Bail Bondsmen in the Hague?
Ntaganda committed well-documented crimes against humanity in plain view of government officials, foreign diplomats, and UN peacekeepers in eastern Congo.
U.S. Guilt Over Rwanda Will Only Lead to More Guilt
Sympathy for a state’s past should not color current policy.
The Oracle of Belgrade
Now, Sonja Licht is worried about the future not just of the Balkans, but of the entire continent.
Citizen Participation in Presidential Debates Kicked to the Curb This Election
The larger question facing our nation about the U.S. role in the world and how the candidates themselves would define what is in the national security interest of the United States was almost completely ignored.
Caught Red Handed: Rwanda, Violence in Eastern Congo, and the UN Report
The atmosphere was tense during the DRC Briefing at IPS on June 29, 2012. The audience of 45 squeezed into the conference room to hear the updates on Rwanda’s most recent breach of Congolese sovereignty, and the Q & A session threatened to reach a fever pitch.