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shameless self-promotion 17 Apr 2013 | 07:58 pm
I'll be at Duke University this Friday (4/19), speaking on conflict minerals in DRC at the Nicholas School of the Environment at 10am. Details are here. I'll also be speaking at a public event at Blac...
big life news 2 Apr 2013 | 12:13 am
(It's April Fool's Day, but this is not a joke.) In the personal/professional life news category, I have some that's big: I'll be leaving Morehouse College at the end of this academic year to take a ...
'tis the season 19 Mar 2013 | 02:22 am
It's SWEDOW bracket time! For those first-timers, this is an NCAA men's college basketball tournament bracket competition with prizes for the winner that are considered SWEDOW ("stuff we don't want,")...
drinking the Rwandan kool-aid 23 Feb 2013 | 02:15 am
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and businessman and philanthropist Howard Buffett have a column in Foreign Policy this week titled, "Stand with Rwanda." In the piece, they argue that aid cut...
shameless self-promotion 7 Feb 2013 | 09:27 pm
A few upcoming speaking engagements: 2/28: Tufts University, Fletcher School, World Peace Foundation: "Western Advocacy in Conflict: Do international public advocacy campaigns make an impact?" Paneli...
realities of rape in war 10 Oct 2012 | 08:58 pm
The Simon Fraser University Human Security Report for 2011/12 is out. This year's edition focuses on sexual violence in war, and the findings are astonishing. Essentially, SFU found that the data show...
child soldiers 3 Oct 2012 | 12:47 am
It's October, which means it's time for the annual brouhaha over President Obama giving a partial waiver to the DRC for the sanctions that are required by US law to be imposed against countries that h...
shameless self-promotion 21 Sep 2012 | 06:00 pm
I have several speaking engagements coming up this academic year: New York: October 12, 7pm - Congo in Harlem Week - Kony 2012: Lessons for Congo. Panelists include Amanda Taub & Kate Cronin-Furman o...
what I've been up to 21 Sep 2012 | 07:03 am
Oh, hey, blog friends, it's been awhile. Sorry about that - the new semester + finishing a book manuscript + visiting Taiwan (more on that later) = little time for blogging. But life is getting slight...
facts matter 6 Jul 2012 | 03:42 am
Conrad Black has a new piece up over at the National Review. I'd encourage you not to give it anymore hits; the central argument of the piece is that colonization was the West's great gift to the worl...
