Who: Dr. Heinz Krummenacher, BEFORE CEO and Managing Director of swisspeace
What: Multiple national Guinean news outlets
When: February 4 -7, 2010
The BEFORE Project recently presented an examination of the Defense and Security Forces of Guinea to the new Prime Minister of Guinea Jean-Marie Dore, his staff and international partners like the [...]
Over the past several days the CEO of BEFORE, Heinz Krummenacher, and staff in Guinea-Conakry met with the newly appointed Prime Minister of Guinea, Jean-Marie Doré, his staff and United Nations representatives to discuss the implementation of the Ouagadougou agreement signed last month. One of the points in the Ouagadougou agreement called for Defense and [...]
Read more...Over the weekend Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, President of the National Council for the Democracy and the Development (CNDD) and President of the Republic of Guinea, General Sékouba Konaté, Vice-President of the CNDD and Interim President of the Republic of Guinea, and His Excellence, Mr. Blaise Compaore, President of Burkina Faso and ECOWAS-appointed mediator in [...]
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Who: Dr. Eileen Babbitt, PhD., Chair of the BEFORE Governing Board
What: The Role of Track I Actors in Reconciliation: The UN in Iraq
When: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 from 4 pm to 6 pm
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 1737 Cambridge Street, Second Floor, N-262 (Bowie Vernon Room), Cambridge, [...]
Who: Ambassador Dane Smith (ret.), Member of the BEFORE Advisory Committee for West Africa and Team Leader of the BEFORE Guinea Assessment Team
What: AllAfrica, a multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide.
When: Thursday, October 29, 2009
The violence against [...]
The BEFORE Project has been invited to participate in the fall 2009 GlobalGiving Open Challenge, an online contest for non-profits. GlobalGiving is an online donation sites that allows individuals to browse through projects that have gone through a vetting and due diligence screening process. This year BEFORE was chosen as one of the projects [...]
Read more...This fall the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) released a special report, Preventing Violent Conflict: Assessing Progress, Meeting Challenges. In the report Lawrence Woocher, USIP Senior Program Officer, examines conflict prevention as an international norm and the level of political commitment to conflict prevention by world powers. As an expert in conflict prevention BEFORE [...]
Read more...There is a stereotype that the military isn’t interested in preventing wars and that they are the ones who like to lead the charge up beaches with their guns blazing.
Yet in reality thought-leaders in the U.S. Marines Corps and U.S. Department of Defense are paving the way for their communities to think about how [...]
Who: Melanie Kawano, Program Manager for the BEFORE Project
What: Voice of America (VoA), the largest U.S. international broadcaster, reaching an estimated audience of 134 million weekly.
When: Monday, September 30, 2009
The recent violence around demonstrations in Guinea-Conakry led to the death as many as 200 people earlier this week. BEFORE [...]
This past Sunday the West African country of Guinea-Bissau went to the polls to choose a new president after the assassination of President Joao Bernardo Vieira. According to the country’s constitution the second round of voting was needed as no candidate won more than 50% of the ballots in the first round of elections [...]
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