Africa-related Events in the Washington, DC Metro Area

Wednesdays, March 1, 8, and 15, 2006, from 6:45-8:45pm
Women of Color & Images of Self. Social Action and Leadership School for Activists, Institute for Policy Studies.

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Brown Bag Seminar: Whither Democracy in Liberia? Challenges and Options after the Elections. Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Washington DC.

Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Ask Amnesty Chat Online. SHARE POWER: Using Grassroots Shareholder Activism to Hold Corporations Accountable for Human Rights. Amnesty International USA

Thursday, March 2, 2006, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Book Launch -- Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System. New Rules for Global Finance Coalition & Woodrow Wilson Center. A book discussion with author Raymond Baker, Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution, and Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy; and commentator Ted Moran, Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy, and Director, Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 5th Floor Conference Room (Ronald Reagan Building: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line.)

Thursday, March 2, 2006, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

The Congolese Elections: Preparing for the Day After. A presentation by the Great Lakes Policy Forum. Kenney Auditorium of the Nitze Building at The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC.

Thursday, March 2, 2006, 10:00AM - 12:00 PM

Financing Civil Society at the Local Level: Are the Results Cost Effective and Sustainable? InterAction, World Learning, and the World Bank.

Thursday, March 2, 2006. 2:00 - 4:00 PM

International Health Policy Decisions and the Future of HIV Treatment. American Enterprise Institute.

Thursday, March 2, 2006, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Book Launch -- Citizenship and Ethnic Conflict: Challenging the Nation-State. With editor Haldun Gulalp, Professor of Sociology, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey; and commentator John Coakley, Associate Professor of Politics, University College Dublin; Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Friday, March 3, 2006. 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Is Corporate Social Responsibility Serious Business? American Enterprise Institute.

Friday, March 3, 2006, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Live Webcast: A Briefing on Escalating Media Repression in Zimbabwe. A briefing on recent developments affecting independent journalists in Zimbabwe, featuring Isabella Matambandadzo, a trustee of the Voice of the People, one of Zimbabwe’s few remaining independent radio stations. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Friday, March 3, 2006. 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.

An African Indigenous Blueprint for Development. International Development Program, SAIS. George Ayittey, distinguished economist-in-residence at American University, will discuss this topic. For more information, contact Reyna Truscott at 202.663.5929. SAIS, Rome Building-200, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Friday, March 03 2006, 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Live Webcast/Briefing: Recent Developments in Somalia's Search for Peace and Security. A briefing with Matt Bryden, Horn of Africa Project Director at the International Crisis Group and André Le Sage, Assistant Professor and Academic Chair for Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the African Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Monday, March 6, 2006. 12:00 pm
An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths. Cato Book Forum. Featuring the author, Glenn Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee, author of Instapundit.com.