Category: Human Rights

• Fostering Democracy, Good Governance, and Human Rights in Africa Through Security Sector Assistance

  July 17, 2014

  AFRICOM, Human Rights, Peacekeeping Operations, Security Cooperation, Terrorism, U.S. Africa Strategy

  Yesterday, I presented on a National Endowment for Democracy panel on “Fostering Democracy, Good Governance, and Human Rights in Africa Through Security Sector Assistance.” Video of the event can be found here and links to the papers we presented are below: Christopher Holshek from the Alliance for Peacebuilding presented on Mali’s Teachable Moment: The Primacy of Civil Authority in Read.

• South Sudan celebrates SPLA Day, but what about human rights?

  May 17, 2012

  Human Rights, South Sudan

  On May 16, South Sudan commemorated the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA). On top of fighting a 22 year-long war that secured South Sudan’s independence last year, the SPLA will now protect the country in the event that the low-intensity conflict with Sudan escalates. While South Sudan’s security forces had already espoused Read.