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April 5 marks the start of the one-year countdown to Afghanistan's presidential election. This will be the first post-9/11 election in which President Hamid Karzai is not on the presidential ballot. A panel of experts convened at USIP to discuss the critically important technical and political issues that need to be addressed during the next 365 days in order for the elections to produce a credible and legitimate outcome. |
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Five months ago, formal peace talks were launched between the government of Colombia and the FARC-EP guerrillas, and the parties began initiated to discuss agrarian development—the first of six agreed agenda items. Please join us on April 3, 2013 to discuss the relationship of land and the peace agenda. |
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Sierra Leone, Senegal, Malawi and Cape Verde all have made significant progress toward promoting democratic reform. These four countries’ heads of state shared the stage at the United States Institute of Peace for an important conversation on the link between good governance and increasing prosperity in their countries and across Africa. |
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Haiti’s president and parliament appear deadlocked in another effort to form a Permanent Electoral Council in the manner prescribed in the country’s complex 1987 constitution. On March 25, USIP convened a panel of distinguished experts discussed the challenges of governing Haiti and holding elections in a timely manner. |
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Ms. Hilde Johnson, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) visited USIP to discuss some of the experiences and challenges that the UNMISS has faced in striving to defend protection of civilians. |
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Panel Seven: Concluding Roundtable Discussion: The Way Forward and featuring keynote address from Ambassador Donald Steinberg, Deputy Administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). |
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Panel Six: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities: This panel explored questions around data-collection and how to generate good qualitative and quantitative data on sexual violence in armed conflict. |
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Panel Two: National Responses to Sexual Violence critically discussed the existing national frameworks for addressing sexual violence in conflict and post conflict. |
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Panel Five: Security from Sexual Violence focused on the idea of a global responsibility to protect individuals from conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence in particular, and critically discuss existing practice. |
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Panel Four: Surviving Sexual Violence focused on victim-survivors of sexual violence in armed conflict, and discussed the ambiguity of victimhood. |