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Somalia’s Crisis: Challenges to Peace

Public event co-sponsored by USIP and the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2007 / Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm 

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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Africa Program and the U.S. Institute of Peace cordially invite you to a public panel discussion detailing recent Human Rights Watch and UN Monitoring Group reporting, as well as the evolving humanitarian and political challenges to peace in Somalia.

Speakers

  • Jim Swan
    Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
  • Leslie Lefkow
    Human Rights Watch
  • Geoff Loane
    International Committee of the Red Cross
  • Ken Menkhaus
    Davidson College
  • Steve Morrison, Moderator
    CSIS Africa Program
  • David Smock
    U.S. Institute of Peace

 

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