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March Event Listings The following organizations' Events Pages provide listings of other events that are not listed here: Center for Global Development - Events World Bank InfoShop - Book Launch Events Wednesday, March 1, 2006. Reception 6:30-7:30 pm Dialogue 7.30- 8.30 pmDr. Edmund Daukoru, Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources and OPEC Conference President, in a dialoque on Africa's Role in International Energy Security. Leon H. Sullivan Foundation. Ritz Carlton Hotel. Dr. Daukoru will be joined by Peter Robertson, Vice President of Chevron Corporation, Paulo Gomes, Executive Director for Africa at the World Bank, George Person, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Energy Policy in a dialogue on the challenges and opportunities that result from energy production and distribution by African nations.
Wednesdays,
March 1, 8, and 15, 2006, from 6:45-8:45pm 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 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 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?
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
Monday, March 06 2006, 12:00 p.m. -
1:00 p.m.
Monday, March 06 2006, 2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Developing Country Voices: Rescuing the Development Agenda of the Doha Round. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Monday, March 06 2006, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Population, Environment, and Development in Ethiopia. Sahlu Haile, Packard Foundation, Global Media Award Winner for Population-Environment Reporting; David H. Shinn, Former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia; Lawrence Smith, President, Population Institute. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
March 6-8,
2006
Tuesday, March 7, 2006.
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 7, 2006. 9.30 am - 11.30 am. Advocacy Network for Africa (ADNA) General Monthly Meeting. Usual Place: Conference Room at the offices of the National Council of Churches and Church World Service, United Methodist Building, 110 Maryland Ave, Suite 108. The 110 entrance is a little way along Maryland Ave. For Access please use the button pad, press 108 and the red button for entrance. Contact: Jennifer Davis: jendavis@igc.org Tuesday, March 7, 2006. 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon Chinese Influence: Expanding in Both Africa and Latin America. Heritage Foundation. Wednesday, March 8, 2006 International Women’s Day Wednesday, March 8, 2006. 12:30-2:00 PM Nigeria's Public Service Reform Program: Implementation Challenges. Public Sector Governance Brown Bag Lunch Seminars - World Bank. Speaker/s: Dr. Tunji Olaopa, Director, Bureau of Public Service Reform, Nigeria Wednesday, March 8, 2006. 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm How Are Economic and Political Systems Are Linked. Public Sector Governance Brown Bag Lunch Seminars - World Bank. Wednesday, March 8, 2006 Stop Violence Against Women in Darfur. Online. Please join us online on International Women's Day for an online discussion with Dr. Gloria White-Hammond on the state of women in Darfur. Amnesty International USA Wednesday, March 8, 2006 Merck Breakfast Series. City Club-Franklin Square, Washington DC. Speaker: Steve Morrisen, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The breakfast forums give our members an opportunity to meet with key policy makers in an informal setting to discuss issues relevant to strengthening commercial relations between the United States and Africa. Event Contact: Jacqueline Coker [ jcoker@africacncl.org ] Thursday, March 9, 2006. 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Getting Ahead of AIDS: The Long-term Agenda. A Director's Forum with Peter Piot. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Thursday,
March 9, 2006.
9:00 am - 5:30 pm March 10-13, 2006 Ecumenical Advocacy Days for Global Peace with Justice - Conference. Doubletree Hotel Crystal City, 200 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA. Contact: Michael Neuroth, info@advocacydays.org. 703.416.4100 Monday, March 13, 2006. 10:30 a.m. - noon Energy Security: Cause for Cooperation or Competition? A Brookings 90th Anniversary Leadership Forum. Featured Speaker: Senator Richard Lugar Monday,, March 13, 2006, 12 noon to 2:00 pm
Book Launch: "Gender and
Economic Growth in Uganda".
Monday, March 13 2006, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00
p.m. Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 9:00am Latin America's Electoral Leftward Shift: The Importance of Economic Growth. Press Breakfast, Center for Economic and Policy Research Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 9:00am Conflict Management Program and Search for Common Ground: "How Is the United Nations Promoting Human Rights and What Is the Role of the United States?" . SAIS - Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building, 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Lee Feinstein, senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy and international law and deputy director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Michael Posner, president of Human Rights First, and Theodore Piccone, executive director of the Democracy Coalition Project, will discuss this topic. Members of the public should RSVP to Search for Common Ground, the event's co-host, at 202.265.4300 or cprfnewsletter@sfcg.org. Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 12 Noon. Guns, Germs and Steel: Into the Tropics. Tuesdays at Noon Film Screening. National Geographic. Jared Diamond offers a geographic viewpoint on the European colonization of Africa and its legacy in the continent's troubled present. (56 min.)
Tuesday,
March 14, 2006.
12:00 pm Tuesday, March 14, 2006. 2:00 p.m. What if the Answers Don't Add Up? Transparency and Government Data. The Heritage Foundation. Lehrman Auditorium. Patrick Henry said it best in observing that “the liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” This has never been more true than today as government grows ever bigger, more costly and intrusive. Many official decisions and transactions are based on data collected and analyzed by government, but much of that same data is kept from the public, thus preventing independent analyses of government decision-making. Join us as our distinguished guests examine the consequences of keeping government data behind closed doors. Tuesday, March 14, 2006. 6:30PM -- 9:00PM Please join us at the next meeting of African Peoples... to discuss strategies and issues affecting African immigrants and refugees in the MD, DC, and VA areas. Where: Lee Conference Center 1108 Jefferson Street Alexandria, VA 22314 (703) 838-4343. Key Agenda Highlight: Follow up on recent Immigration activities on Capitol Hill and in the diaspora community. Come and find out what other immigrant communities, businesses, faith-based organizations are doing; and how you can take action now. Final agenda will be posted on our website a few days before the meeting: http://www.orgsites.com/va/african-pac/. Non-Members and Community/Faith Leaders are welcomed ! To RSVP, call 202-714-5921 or email African_PAC@Yahoo.com
Wednesday, March 15, 2006.
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Thursday,
March 16, 2006.
10:00 - 11:30am Thursday, March 16, 2006. Panel Discussion: 2:30-5:00 PM Reception: 5:00-7:00 PM “Experiences with Ex-ante Poverty Impact Assessments of Macroeconomic Policies in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Ghana, the Philippines, and Nepal”. Public Presentation of Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations on Policies and Methodologies. New Rules for Global Finance Coalition & Brookings. The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036.
Thursday,
March 16, 2006 Thursday, March 16, 2006 National Conference on Medicine's Response to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: American Medical Student Association - Washington, DC. Dr. Gershwin Blyden, Director, Institute for Democracy in Africa, will be presenting on: 'The Call from Africa - What Exactly Do Africans Need From US Physicians?'
Thursday,
March 17,
2006.
14:00 - 16:00 Monday, March 20, 2006. 14:00 - 15:45 Address by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Liberia's Progress, Potential, and Challenges for the Future. For a summary and to watch the video, see Liberia's President Sirleaf Thanks Donors, Appeals for Quicker Support. Download the full text transcript. Speakers: The President of the Republic of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Dr. Antoinette Sayeh - Liberian Minister of Finance; Richard Tolbert - Chairman, Liberian National Investment Commission. A conversation moderated by Steve Radelet - Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development. Monday, March 20, 2006 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Political Performance and Political Change in East Africa...Elliott School of International AffairsGeorge Washington University - Elliott School of International Affairs. Lindner Family Commons, 602 1957 E Street, NW Political Performance and Political Change in East Africa Gina Lambright, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Tuesday, March 21, 2006 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Tuesday, March 21, 2006. 12 Noon. Genesis. Tuesdays at Noon Film Screening. National Geographic. Screened as part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, this film offers a storyteller's account of the origins of life illustrated with outstanding natural history cinematography. (80 min.)
Thursday,
March 23, 2006.
2:00
p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 23, 2006, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Launch of " The Trouble with Africa". World Bank InfoShop Book Launch. World Bank J building, (701 18th St.,) Room J1-050 (auditorium to the left of the lobby). E-mail: infoshopevents@worldbank.org. Phone: 202 458-4500. For more information, please contact: Patricia Springer, or call 202 473-9510 Monday, March 27, 2006, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Launch of "White Man's Burden". World Bank InfoShop Book Launch. William Easterly. World Bank J building, (701 18th St.,) Room JB1-080. E-mail: infoshopevents@worldbank.org. Phone: 202 458-4500. For more information, please contact: Patricia Springer, or call 202 473-9510 March 27-28, 2006 DSCA Security Coorperation Conference. Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Washington DC. Tysons Corner, Virginia (Washington DC) USA Tuesday, March 28, 2006. 5:30 to 7 p.m. Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on Constructive Capitalism: "Fixing Global Finance -- Hopes Unfulfilled: Capital Flows and Emerging Market Crisis" . SAIS - Rome Building Auditorium, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, will discuss this topic in the first of a three-part lecture series. Professor Francis Fukuyama will moderate the session. A short reception will follow the lecture. For more information and to RSVP, contact politicaleconomy@jhu.edu or 202.663.5650. Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm Launch of " Poverty Reduction and Growth: Viruous and Vicious circles". World Bank InfoShop Book Launch. World Bank J building, (701 18th St.,) Room J1-050 (auditorium to the left of the lobby). E-mail: infoshopevents@worldbank.org. Phone: 202 458-4500. For more information, please contact: Patricia Springer, or call 202 473-9510 Wednesday, March 29, 2006. 5:30 - 7pm Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on Constructive Capitalism: "Fixing Global Finance -- The Emergence of Global 'Imbalances'". SAIS - Rome Building Auditorium, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, will discuss this topic in the second of a three-part lecture series. Professor Francis Fukuyama will moderate the session. A short reception will follow the lecture. For more information and to RSVP, contact politicaleconomy@jhu.edu or 202.663.5650.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006.
4:00 pm Wednesday, March 29, 2006. 6 - 8 p.m. "Darfur: Why D.C. Should Care". This free event organized by a new group of advocates for peace, D.C. for Peace in Darfur, will feature discussions with: Christo Agrondech, D.C. resident and refugee from southern Sudan; Ariela Blätter, human rights lawyer and Director for the Crisis Preparedness and Response Program at Amnesty International; Sarah Martin, Advocate with Refugees International; Adam Shapiro, Afghanistan Country Director for Global Rights and maker of Darfur Diaries: Message from Home. The event will also feature information from advocacy groups such as the Save Darfur Coalition's Million Voices campaign and the rally in Washington in April 30th. Gate 54 Lounge: Café St. Ex 1847 14th Street, NW (14th & T Street NW) Thursday, March 30, 2006. 12:30 - 2:00pmCommunity Report Cards: Strengthening Community Support for Education in Ethiopia. The Education for Development Workgroup of the D.C. Chapter of the Society for International Development, and World Learning for International Development. Presentation by: Edward Jay Allan, Ph.D. & Julio Ramirez, Ph.D. Ed Allan is Senior Program Manager for Education, backstopping both the BESO II CGPP project and the School Support Component of the USAID/Ethiopia Positive Change Program of Support for Children Affected by HIV/AIDS. Julio Ramirez is Director of Education Programs. RSVP: Please reply to Vance Whitfield at (202) 408-5420, ext. 6181, or by email at vance.whitfield@worldlearning.org. World Learning, Suite 750, 1015 15th Street, N.W., Corner of 15th Street & K Street, N.W. Washington, DC. Thursday, March 30, 2006. 12:30 - 2:00pm Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on Constructive Capitalism: "Fixing Global Finance -- Task Unfinished: Making Global Finance Work" - Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building, 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, will discuss this topic in the last of a three-part lecture series. Professor Francis Fukuyama will moderate the session. A short reception will follow the lecture. For more information and to RSVP, contact politicaleconomy@jhu.edu or 202.663.5650. Thursday, March 30, 2006. 3:00pm– 5:00pm Launch of "Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System". World Bank InfoShop Book Launch. Raymond Baker. World Bank J building, (701 18th St.,) Room J1-050 (auditorium to the left of the lobby). E-mail: infoshopevents@worldbank.org. Phone: 202 458-4500. For more information, please contact: Patricia Springer, or call 202 473-9510, or visit: http://new-rules.org/event/capitalismsachillesheel033006.htm Thursday, March 30, 2006. 6:30 - 9 PM Media: U.S. Coverage of Africa. afrikafe Networking Series. Speaker bios: http://www.afrikafe.com. National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor Washington, DC. Cost: $10 (w/rsvp); $15 (after deadline). Dress: Business Contact: events@afrikafe.com; Please RSVP by March 28 Thursday, March 30, 2006. 7:30pm-8:45pm. "Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines". Book reading/signing event with Louise Mushikiwabo, author. The Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution's Africa Working Group. Truland 666A 3330 Washington Blvd Arlington VA 22201. This event is free and open to the public. RSVP via email by March 27, 2006 to Bev Peters, bpeters3@gmu.edu.
Friday,
March 31, 2006.
12:30 p.m. –
2:00 p.m. Friday, March 31, 2006. 12:30 p.m. "A Debate on Secretary Rice's 'Transformational Diplomacy'". SAIS Foreign Relations Career Club and the SAIS Debating Society. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building, 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Erica Barks-Ruggles, deputy assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor will address the statement "Resolved, America Should Promote Democratization as a Top Priority in its Foreign Policy." This event is open to the SAIS community only. For more information, contact Ryan Miller at rrmiller@jhu.edu. Friday, March 31, 2006. 6:00pm-9:30pm "Doing Business in Africa". Young African Professionals Network. A panel of experts will discuss opportunities and constraints entrepreneurs face in setting up and conducting business in Africa. Room 301, Marvin Center, The George Washington University, 801 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. March 31, 2006 - April 1, 2006 TransAfrica Forum Annual Foreign Policy Weekend Conference & Luncheon. March 31: Luncheon With Legendary Harry Belafonte. Return to the Source: A view of Africa and the African Diaspora through the lens of civil society in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the United States. Howard University Blackburn Center, 2397 Sixth Street, NW, Washington, DC. Contact: Mwiza Munthali or Karen C. Wilson. events@transafricaforum.org. 202-223-1960 March 31 - April 2, 2006. Judicial Seminar on International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Aspen Institute Justice and Society Program. Wye, MD. By invitation only
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