East Africa Publications
Nouvelles du BLTP No. 1
Jul 07, 2011Summary of recent Burundi Leadership Training Program Activities, in French only. Published in July, 2004 more
Report on September-October 2005 Training Activities
Jul 07, 2011English, French and Kirundi. This document includes reports on follow up workshops with Burundi's integrated police force, as well as the newly-elected Burundian government. Large file more
Conflict and Cooperation: Making the Case for Environmental Pathways to Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region
Jul 07, 2011Policy paper on ways in which natural resource cooperation can lead to peace in Central Africa more
A New Dawn for Kenya: A Report on the Kenyan Referendum
Jul 07, 2011Muthee is a trained Social Scientist with eight years experience in research, policy analysis, project planning and management amounting from various assignments in different work areas. Her key areas of interest are: poverty, health, governance, organisational management, human rights and gender. more
Environmental Peacemaking
Jul 07, 2011How can environmental cooperation be used to bolster regional peace? A large body of research suggests that environmental degradation may catalyze violent conflict. Environmental cooperation, in contrast, has gone almost unexplored as a means of peacemaking, even though it opens several effective channels: enhancing trust, establishing habits of cooperation, lengthening the time horizons of decisionmakers, forging cooperative trans-societal linkages, and creating shared regional norms and identities.More about this title can be found on the Wilson Center Press website. more
Towards Tolerance, Law and Dignity: Addressing Violence against Foreign Nationals in South Africa
Jul 07, 2011Although violence against foreign nationals and other ‘outsiders’ has been a longstanding feature of post-Apartheid South Africa, the intensity and scale of the May 2008 attacks were extraordinary. What started off as an isolated incidence of antiforeigner violence in Alexandra on 11 May, quickly spread to other townships and informal settlements across the country. more
Global Drug Trafficking: Africa's Expanding Role
Jul 07, 2011Africa's role in the drug trafficking industry is a strong testament to the interplay of supply and demand market expansion, to the hybridization of transnational organized crime syndicates, as well as to the need for a paradigm shift in domestic, regional and international approaches to drug trafficking interdiction. On May 28, 2009, the Africa Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center convened a conference to assess the situation of international drug trafficking and the increasingly important role that Africa plays. more
