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This Week on Dialogue Radio: "Shake Hands With the Devil"
Jan 24, 2005An interview with General Romeo Dallaire author and former Force Commander of the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda
This Week on Dialogue TV: Creating Climate for Change
Jan 19, 2005An interview with Klaus Toepfer head of the United Nations Environmental Program, based in Nairobi, Kenya
This Week on Dialogue Radio: Saving Africa
Dec 27, 2004A discussion with Richard Sezibera, Ambassador of Rwanda to the United States, Kenneth Behring, businessman and private philanthropist and Christine Warnke, government affairs advisor for the law firm Hogan & Hartson.
Burundi Leadership Training Program (BLTP) workshop featured by the Burundi Press Agency
Dec 16, 2004A recent meeting of political party leaders, sponsored by the Burundi Leadership Training Program (BLTP) drew the attention of the official Burundi Press Agency (ABP)
This Week on Dialogue TV: Liberia: What The People Think
Dec 08, 2004After a bloody civil war, Liberians avidly embraced the prospect of elections. There were, however, real and serious questions about Liberian attitudes toward democracy and their sense of national community. To gauge those sentiments, Liberia's first political poll was commissioned. The positive and hopeful expressions of the polls Liberian participants are presented in this program.
This Week on Dialogue TV: Faces of the Future
Nov 24, 2004Ugandan, Nigerian and Senegalese scholars will talk about the next generation of developing world leaders on the Wilson Center's award-winning television series this week, as part of a panel of five recent recipients of Ford Foundation fellowships.
Wilson Center's Dialogue Television series to feature discussion on "Women of the Sudan"
Nov 15, 2004Beginning November 17th, Dialogue Television viewers can tune in to a discussion with two prominent female peacebuilders, Durria Mansour El Hussein, current deputy chair of the Sudanese women's empowerment for peace network and Sandra Opoka, a board member of the Sudanese women's empowerment for peace network. Viewers outside the Washington, DC area can tune in via webcast.
From Belligerents in War to Partners in Peace: The Burundi Leadership Training Program
Sep 15, 2004Since its independence in 1962, the small central Africa nation of Burundi has been home to one of the world's most intractable and deadly conflicts, with over 300,000 killed and one-and-a-half million displaced. In this paper, Africa Program Director Howard Wolpe reports on a novel capacity-building initiative designed to restore the ability of Burundian leaders to collaborate effectively in advancing the country's reconstruction and securing a sustainable peace.
Building Networks in Burundi
Jun 03, 2004"The key to breaking the cycle of violence and hate is finding what makes us all human," writes Africa Program Associate Nicole Rumeau. "The Burundi Leadership Training Program has helped Burundians do just that."
