On April 19, 2005, the International Peace Academy [now International Peace Institute] Africa Program convened the third of its annual capstone civil society dialogues in New York. For a second consecutive year, the dialogue concentrated on civil society’s role in peacebuilding and democratization in the Great Lakes region, centering on the transitional processes in the […]
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