News

March 2013

March 6th 2013
CPPF program director Bill O'Neill pens Miami Herald op-ed: "Duvalier Must Face Justice" →
March 1st 2013
Now at African Futures: "Urban Protests and Rural Violence in Africa: A Call for an Integrated Approach," by Zachariah Mampilly →

February 2013

February 22nd 2013
CPPF deputy director Tatiana Carayannis gave a talk on "The Dilemmas of Activist-based Research and Research-based Activism" at a February 7 seminar on Conducting Fieldwork in African Conflict Areas and the Question of Proximity, held at Ghent University, Belgium →
February 12th 2013
New at African Futures: "Urban Protests and Rural Violence in Africa: A Call for an Integrated Approach," by Zachariah Mampilly →

December 2012

December 17th 2012
At African Futures: "A History of Resistance in the Congo," by Herbert Weiss, contextualizes the current political crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo →
December 13th 2012
CPPF program director William O'Neill comments on US violations of international law at Guantánamo Bay prison for Al Jazeera →
December 7th 2012
CPPF program associate Sabrina Stein contributed a chapter titled “The UN and Genocide: A Comparative Analysis of Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia” to the recent book The Politics and Policies of Relief, Aid and Reconstruction (Palgrave, 2012) →

November 2012

November 1st 2012
CPPF program associate Sabrina Stein examines Uruguay's decriminalization of abortion for the International Peace Institute's Global Observatory →

October 2012

October 17th 2012
Renata Segura, associate director of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, explains what key issues will determine the outcome of FARC-Colombia negotiations in an article for the International Peace Institute's Global Observatory →

September 2012

September 25th 2012
CPPF deputy director Tatiana Carayannis spoke on "New Directions in China-Africa Knowledge Production and Networks" at a seminar on The Future of China in Africa at the Danish Institute for International Studies →

August 2012

August 6th 2012
The Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF) facilitated a security-handover workshop for the UN and the government of Liberia, August 1–3, in Monrovia →

July 2012

July 5th 2012
CPPF associate director Renata Segura examines failed reform in the Colombian justice system for IPI’s Global Observatory →

March 2012

March 5th 2012
CPPF program director Bill O'Neill interviewed by Radio France International on the Duvalier case and other developments in Haiti (in French) →

February 2012

February 24th 2012
CPPF releases A Preliminary Mapping of China-Africa Knowledge Networks, a report by Deputy Director Tatiana Carayannis and Program Assistant Nathaniel Olin →

January 2012

January 31st 2012
CPPF Director William O’Neill quoted by the Associated Press on the decision not to try Jean-Claude Duvalier on human rights abuses in Haiti →
January 20th 2012
Program Director William O’Neill quoted in the New York Times on the historic sentencing of police officers involved in the 2010 Les Cayes prison massacre in Haiti →

December 2011

December 6th 2011
Deputy Director Tatiana Carayannis was quoted in the Financial Times on the recent elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo →

November 2011

November 28th 2011
On November 21, 2011, Tatiana Carayannis spoke at a seminar at Columbia University on the 2011 DRC elections →
November 24th 2011
Tatiana Carayannis chaired a roundtable discussion on November 19 at the annual African Studies Association conference on “Fifty Years of Political Mobilization in the Congo” →
November 21st 2011
Tatiana Carayannis participated in a two-day seminar on “How Mass Atrocities End” held at the Fletcher School of Tufts University, 17-18 November →