News/Events

Media Alert: BEFORE on Guinéenews

Posted Mar 27 2010

When: Saturday, March 27, 2010
What: Article on the Presentation of BEFORE’s Reflections on Guinea’s Parliament and Judicial System
Where: Guinéenews, or translated into English
In late March 2010, BEFORE’s CEO Heinz Krummenacher and BEFORE’s partner Ms. Elizabeth Coté, Director of IFES-Guinée, presented two papers on Guinea’s Parliament and Supreme Court to Prime Minister Jean-Marie Doré, several members [...]

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Media Alerts: Guinea News Outlets

Posted Feb 08 2010

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 [...]

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Meeting with Newly Appointed Guinea Prime Minister

Posted Feb 04 2010

In early February, 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 in mid-January. One of the points in the Ouagadougou agreement called for Defense and Security Sector [...]

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Peaceful Transition Agreement in Guinea Reached

Posted Jan 20 2010

On January 15, 2010 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 [...]

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Event Alert: BEFORE Chair Speaking at Harvard

Posted Dec 05 2009

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, [...]

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Media Alert: BEFORE on AllAfrica.com

Posted Oct 30 2009

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 [...]

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BEFORE invited to GlobalGiving Online Contest

Posted Oct 24 2009

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 [...]

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BEFORE Governing Board Member Provides Input for USIP Special Report

Posted Oct 19 2009

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 [...]

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U.S. Department of Defense Wants to Prevent War

Posted Oct 07 2009

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 [...]

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Media Alert: BEFORE on Voice of America

Posted Oct 01 2009

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
Violence around demonstrations in Guinea-Conakry led to the death as many as 150 people on September 28, 2009. BEFORE Program [...]

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