Thursday, September 8, 2011

Dealing with conflict in the Horn of Africa

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Alliance for Peacebuilding and Institute for Horn of Africa Studies and Affairs held a half-day conference in Washington on 7 September, 2011 that focused on conflict resolution in the Horn of Africa.

Participants worked from a paper prepared by Paul D. Williams, professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, that described the history of conflicts in the Horn and urged a regional strategy to deal with them in the future.

The final version of his paper will appear on the blog. I include here my remarks at the conference.

A Proposed US Regional Strategy towards the Horn of Africa: Conflict Resolution at Local and Regional Levels