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October 14, 2012 Events

October 8th - 14th, 2012

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9th
Toward a Democratic Ethiopia
Hosted by: National Endowment for Democracy
Location: Suite 800, 1025 F St. NW, Washington, D.C.
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Summary: A half-day conference will be hosted by the National Endowment for Democracy and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. The Conference will include the following panels: Civil society, Media and Political Space; and Strategic Opportunities and Policy Challenges. Panelists include the following: Dawit Kebede, Editor-in-Chief, Awramba Times; Mahdere Paulos, former Executive Director, Ethiopian Women's Lawyers Association; Prof. Terrence Lyons, George Mason University; Amb. David Shinn, George Washington University; Berhanu Mengistu, Old Dominion University; with moderators Abdulwahab Alkebsi, Director, Middle East and Africa, Center for International Private Enterprise; Lauren Ploch Blanchard, Specialist in African Affairs, Congressional Research Service; and remarks from Gregory Simpkins, U.S. House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights; and a representative of the United States Department of State, to be determined.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ned.org/events/toward-a-democratic-ethiopia
To RSVP: http://toward-a-democratic-ethiopia.eventbrite.com/# by Friday, October 5th

Conflict Prevention and Resolution Forum: The Global Power of Talk: Lessons of Diplomacy and Negotiation
Hosted by: Search for Common Ground
Location: Kenney Auditorium, Johns Hopkins SAIS, 1740 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.
Time: 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Summary: The Forum will draw from the new book by I William Zartman and Fen Osler Hampson, which lays out the different ways Talk can be used to accomplish foreign policy purposes that military might can never reach. It identifies 14 forms of negotiation and then applies them to current situations where diplomacy is needed. The discussants will help develop the theme and reflect on lessons learned in the field of diplomacy and negotiation. In the current juncture of events, the global power of talk is more needed to be deployed. Speakers include: Chester A. Crocker, the James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service; Fen Osler Hampson,  Distinguished Fellow and Director of Global Security at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ontario; David E. Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times, lecturer in public policy and senior fellow for National Security and the Press at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government;I. William Zartman, the Jacob Blaustein Professor Emeritus at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University, and member of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program at Clingendael, Netherlands; and moderated by: Paul B. Stares, the General John W. Vessey senior fellow for conflict prevention and director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
For more information, please visit: http://www.sfcg.org/events/forums_conflict.html
To RSVPhttp://salsa.sfcg.org/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=98956

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10th
Preventing Electoral Violence:
Hosted by: Friends Committee on National Legislation
Location: 7th Floor, 1700 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20006
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Summary: Getry Agizah is the Coordinator of a Kenyan NGO focused on electoral violence prevention and peacebuilding in the Rift Valley's volatile Turbo Division. Since Kenya's devastating crisis in 2007-2008, Getry's organization has trained more than 1,500 young people in programs including transformative mediation, trauma healing and reconciliation, and non-violence for social change, as well as convened a local Interfaith Peace Taskforce. In anticipation of Kenya's next elections in March of 2013, she has also begun leading civic education workshops and is piloting a grassroots election monitoring and early warning system. Please join us as Getry shares her extensive experience in rural and community-based peacebuilding and reflects on how the U.S. government can help support Kenyan peace over the upcoming months. Diane Randall, Executive Secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, will introduce Getry and the Friends Committee's related work.
For more information, please visit:http://fcnl.org/about/events/preventing_electoral_violence/  
To RSVP, please email Cassidy Regan by 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 9th, at cassidy@fcnl.org

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11th
Young Voices and New Visions from Africa
Hosted by: Institute for Policy Studies
Location: 1112 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Summary: In a public discussion with young bloggers, students, and activists from Africa, IPS Associate Fellow and American University Professor Carl LeVan will ask: is there a generation gap in Africa today? Please join the Institute for Policy Studies for a roundtable discussion on African diaspora democracy. Is the real significance of the so-called 'youth bulge' an emerging generation gap between citizens and leaders? How do young people confront negative stereotypes of Africa in the US, while also challenging hard political realities back home? The dialogue will include Jumoke Balogun, a Nigerian-American blogger and public relations expert in the union movement; Mame-Khady Diouf, a Senegalese intellectual from the Woodrow Wilson Center; Kizito Byenkya from the Open Society Institute and co-publisher of Compareafrique.comMichael Appau, a Ghanaian student at Georgetown University; and Estelle Bounga Fomeju, a Cameroonian student at Sciences Po in Paris
For more information, please visit: http://www.ips-dc.org/events/young_voices_and_new_visions_from_africa

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