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Preventing and Rebuilding Failed States Amid Global Economic Crisis: What are Realistic Options for U.S. Policy?
Friday, June 05 2009, 8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Jack Goldstone, George Mason University; Ambassador James Dobbins, RAND Corporation; William Zartman, SAIS; Ken Menkhaus, Davidson College; Sarah Cliffe, World Bank; Charles Call, American University; Gordon Adams, American University; and more.
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Global Drug Trafficking: Africa's Expanding Role
Thursday, May 28 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Antonio Mazzitelli, United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Representative for Central and West Africa;
Bruce Bagley, Professor of International Studies, University of Miami;
Michael Braun, former head of Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA);
Peter Burgess,Counter-narcotics project Officer for US Africa Command (AFRICOM);
Candace Ross,US Africa Command Narcotics Office (AFRICOM);
Victor Cole-Showers, Nigerian Drug and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Commander at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos
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Combating Sex Trafficking by Eliminating the Demand
Tuesday, May 12 2009, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Victor Malarek, Investigative Reporter and Author, The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It; Ambassador Mark P. Lagon, Executive Director, Polaris Project; The Honorable Linda Smith, President and Founder, Shared Hope International; Moderated by Ambassador Swanee Hunt, President, Hunt Alternatives Fund
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Land Grab: The Race for the World's Farmland
Tuesday, May 05 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Carl Atkin, Partner and Head of Research, Bidwells Agribusiness; Gary R. Blumenthal, President and CEO, World Perspectives, Inc.; David Hallam, Deputy Director, Trade and Markets Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); Chido Makunike, Agricultural Exporter and Consultant (Senegal); Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Raul Q. Montemayor, National Manager, Federation of Free Farmers Cooperatives, Inc. (Philippines); and Alexandra Spieldoch, Director, Trade and Global Governance Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
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Gender-Based Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Demographic and Health Survey Findings and Their Use in National Planning
Monday, April 20 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Elisabeth Sommerfelt , Senior Maternal-Child-Newborn Health Advisor, Academy for Educational Development
Reena Borwankar, Gender, Gender-based Violence Advisor, Africa’s Health in 2010, Academy for Educational Development
Diana Prieto, Senior Gender Advisor, USAID Office of HIV/AIDS
Mark Blackden, Consultant, International Finance Corporation
H.E. Hawa Olga Ndilowe, Ambassador of Malawi (invited)
Vivian Lowery-Derrick, Moderator
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Africa Program
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: africa@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4354
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