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DESCRIPTION:Jacques Depelchin examines under which conditions sustained peace can be 
 achieved and explores the political and social environment in the country 
 of his birth.    * Have the political environment, the nature and character 
 of political leadership in the DRC changed since June 30, 1960?      * Why 
 does militarism and violence continue to dictate political solutions, both 
 nationally and regionally?   Dr. Jacques Depelchin is a committed 
 intellectual, academic, and activist for peace, democracy, transparency and 
 pro-people politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  He was born in 
 the Congo and educated at Lovanium University (Kinshasa) in the DRC, the 
 University of London, Johns Hopkins University in Italy, and Stanford. He 
 has taught African History and related subjects at UC Berkeley, UC Santa 
 Cruz, San Francisco State, Stanford, Syracuse, and universities in DR 
 Congo, Mozambique, and Tanzania.  He was present in the Eastern Congo 
 during the most recent war in 1996-2002, and was a member of the 
 non-militarist RCD-Kisangani movement led by Ernest Wamba dia Wamba which 
 opposed continuation of the war. He participated in the negotiations 
 leading to the Lusaka Cease-fire, those leading to Sun City-1 in 2002, and 
 later, in portions of the negotiations leading to the Global and Inclusive 
 Accord in Pretoria, 2003.  He is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of 
 the Berkeley-based Ota Benga International Alliance for Peace in the DR 
 Congo. Under its umbrella, he is researching American and Congolese social 
 healing and bringing together the healers, as well as lecturing and writing 
 on the DR Congo to improve American understanding of its history and 
 present realities. The Ota Benga Alliance is linked with a sister 
 organization in Kinshasa, The Ota Benga Center for Human Dignity.  For more 
 information on Jacques Depelchin:  
 http://msupress.msu.edu/authorbio.php?authorID=830  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/04/27/64513.php
SUMMARY:"Is Peace Possible in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?"
LOCATION:Unitarian-Universalist Center  1187 Franklin St (betw Geary and O'Farrell)  
 Fireside Room
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/04/27/64513.php
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