Roundtable Series on U.S. Strategic African Partners
Director: John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies
September 2009 - Present
The United States has struggled to implement a coherent foreign policy toward sub-Saharan Africa even as strategic interests in the region have grown. Addressing issues of national security, development, trade, human rights, environment and natural resources requires stable, dependable and well-governed regional partners. However, corruption, poor governance, conflict, environmental degradation, widespread poverty and malnutrition, and HIV/AIDS continue to bring untold hardship to a large majority of the region's 800 million inhabitants and undermine core U.S. interests in democracy and development. The Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies Program Roundtable Series on U.S. Strategic African Partners seeks to foster discussion about how the United States can play a positive role in the region by strengthening the capacity of states to provide for their people and working with other African democracies on interests of mutual concern. The Africa Program has a special focus on Nigeria and South Africa because of their size and strategic importance.
Meetings
Roundtable Meeting
Human Rights Watch on Boko Haram and the Nigerian Security Forces
Speakers:
Eric Guttschuss, Nigeria Researcher, Human Rights Watch, Sarah Margon, Deputy Washington Director, Human Rights WatchPresider:
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Discussion with South African Minister of Mineral Resources
Speaker:
Susan Shabangu, Minister of Mineral Resources, Republic of South AfricaPresider:
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Land Restitution Issues in South Africa
Speakers:
Bernadette Atuahene, Visiting Professor of Law, Fordham Law School, George Monyemangene, Consul General, South African Consulate in New YorkPresider:
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Roundtable Meeting
Post-Election Conflict Management in Nigeria: A Conversation with John Paden
Speaker:
John N. Paden, Clarence Robinson Professor of International Studies, George Mason UniversityPresider:
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Business and Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
Speakers:
Chris Albin-Lackey, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch, Eric Guttschuss, Researcher, Human Rights WatchPresider:
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studie, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Congo's Elections
Speakers:
Pierre Englebert, Pomona College, Herbert Weiss, City University of New York, Theresa Whelan, National Intelligence CouncilPresider:
John Campbell, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Mapping Conflict in Nigeria
Speakers:
Nate Haken, Senior Associate, Fund for Peace, Joelle Burbank, Associate, Fund for PeacePresider:
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
African Answers to Ethnic and Religious Conflict: Examples from Kenya and Nigeria
Speakers:
Imam Muhammed Nurayn Ashafa, Conflict Transformation Across Cultures, Pastor James Movel Wuye, Conflict Transformation Across CulturesPresider:
John Campbell, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Nigeria's 2011 Elections
Speaker:
Mourtada Deme, Nigeria Resident Country Director, International Republican InstitutePresider:
John Campbell, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Democracy in Nigeria: A Conversation with Pat Utomi
Speaker:
Pat Utomi, Reform Candidate for Nigeria's 2011 Presidential Elections, Social Democratic Mega PartyPresider:
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Nigeria Watchers Roundtable
Speaker:
Jean Herskovitz, Research Professor of History, State University of New York at PurchasePresider:
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
A Conversation with Lamido Sanusi
Speakers:
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor, Central Bank of Africa, John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Addressing Corruption in Africa
Speaker:
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, Center for Global DevelopmentPresider:
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Speaker:
Judith Burdin Asuni, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of PeacePresider:
John Campbell, Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Speaker:
Emmanuel O. Egbogah, Presidential Adviser on Petroleum Matters, Federal Republic of NigeriaPresider:
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Speakers:
Princeton N. Lyman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Stewart M. Patrick, Senior Fellow and Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance, Council on Foreign RelationsPresider:
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Speaker:
Farida Waziri, Chair, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of NigeriaPresider:
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
This meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Stability and Security in the Horn of Africa: Observations on Eritrea and Sudan
Speakers:
Robert H. Reid, Chatham House, Edward Thomas, Chatham HouseDiscussant:
Suliman Baldo, International Center for Transitional JusticePresider:
John Campbell, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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