East Africa: Great Lakes course moved to Uganda
The Rift Valley Institute Great Lakes Course will now take place in Entebbe, Uganda, from 17 to 23 July. Due to security concerns surrounding the elections in Burundi, the course has been moved from the previously announced location in Bujumbura. The syllabus and dates remain unchanged. The Great Lakes course is a residential programme designed for aid workers, peace-keepers, researchers and diplomats.
The Rift Valley Institute Great Lakes Course will now take place in Entebbe, Uganda, from 17 to 23 July. Due to security concerns surrounding the elections in Burundi, the course has been moved from the previously announced location in Bujumbura. The syllabus and dates remain unchanged.
The Great Lakes course is a residential programme designed for aid workers, peace-keepers, researchers and diplomats.
The course offers an intensive, dawn-to-dusk, graduate-level introduction to Rwanda, Burundi and the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, taught by world authorities on the region. Proceedings will be in both French and English, with simultaneous interpretation services available. The course follows the same model as the Rift Valley Institute's established annual courses on the Horn of Africa and Sudan.
Three distinguished scholars of the region are the latest additions to the teaching staff of the Great Lakes course. The first is René Lemarchand, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida, and author of several books on the region, including The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa, Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide, and Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo. The second is Dr Jean-Paul Kimonyo, author of Rwanda: Un Génocide Populaire, currently Policy advisor in the Office of the President of Rwanda. The third is Johan Pottier, Professor of Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, author of Re-Imagining Rwanda. Professor Lemarchand, Dr Kimonyo and Professor Pottier are part of a faculty that includes some of the greatest authorities on the region, including Catharine Newbury and David Newbury, Djo Munga, Julien Nimubona, Severine Autesserre, Séverin Mugangu Matabaro and Bob White.
The Director of the Great Lakes Course is Philip Winter OBE, formerly Chief of Staff for the Inter-Congolese Dialogue and one of the founders of the Rift Valley Institute. The Director of Studies is Jason Stearns of Yale University, formerly Co-ordinator of the UN Group of Experts on the DRC.
A few places on the course remain. If you are interested, please write immediately for an application form to [email][email protected]