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July 9, 2011
Howard Wolpe is a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a former U.S. Representative from Michigan.
When genocidal violence first erupted in Burundi in 1972 it seemed the beginning of the end of the fragile country. Repeated episodes seemed to confirm the dire predictions. But a peace process underway since 1996 hold forth new hope. Howard Wolpe explains how.