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DRC Facts
- Map of the Democratic Republic of Congo
- CIA Factbook | DRC
- World Bank | Democratic Republic of Congo
News Media
International Institutions
Human Rights Organizations
- Human Rights Watch | DRC
- International Crisis Group | DRC
- Insight on Conflict | DRC
- Friends of Congo
- EURAC Network
Think Tanks
- Rift Valley Institute
- Council on Foreign Relations | DR Congo
- United States Institute of Peace | DRC
Blogs
Multimedia
Audio Resources
- Conflict in the DRC; interview with Phil Clark (SOAS) and Severine Autesserre (Barnard College, Columbia) | Australian Broadcast Corporation
- Interviews with Adam Hochschild, Mvemba Dizoele, Jason Stearns, Tia Palermo & Lisa Shannon, and Anthony Gambino | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Jason Stearns on M23 and the Challenges to Peace in Eastern DRC | Chatham House, London (17 Dec. 2012)
- Michael Nest on “Coltan” | Late Night Live – Australian Broadcasting Corporation : ABC interviews Michael Nest, author of “Coltan,” which, in part, examines the relationship between coltan and violence in the DRC
- Noise and Silence, War and Peace in the DR Congo | Africa Past & Present Podcast: Tom Turner (DR Congo Country Specialist at Amnesty International) discusses The Congo Wars and the challenges DR Congo faces in establishing peace today.
- Kings, Legitimacy, and violence in Rwanda and eastern DR Congo | Africa Past & Present Podcast: David Newbury (Smith College) examines the historical dynamics of kingship, legitimacy and violence in Central Africa.
- The Trouble with the Congo | Insight on Conflict : In this interview, Severine Autesserre (Barnard College, Columbia University) describes the argument of her award-winning book, “The Trouble of Congo”
- Jason Stearns interview | Krys Body on KERA Think
Video Resources
- Laura Seay (Assistant Professor, Colby College) | College of the Atlantic: This lecture is on the unintended consequences of section 1502 of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act (conflict minerals provision) and western advocacy in DRC and Africa
- Interviews with Rev. Didier de Failly, Gabriel Kamundala, Jason stearns, Remy Kasindi, Soraya Souleymane, Thierry Sikumbilli on conflict minerals in Congo | “Obama’s Law” Documentary
- Severine Autesserre | 3-part interview with Global Policy Forum (GPF) (October 2012)
- The Congo Botched Election: Where do we go from here? (Feb. 16, 2012) : Tony Gambino (Fellow, Eastern Congo Initiative), Mvembe Dizolele (Fellow, Hoover Institute), and Jason Stearns (PhD Candidate, Yale University) discuss the November 2011 elections in the DRC at the School of Advanced International Studies – Johns Hopkins University
- Theodore Trefon | CERIS Interview : Theodore Trefon, head of the Contempoary History Section of the Belgian Royal Museum for Central Africa, discusses the challenges and future of the DRC
- Jason Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters : Voice of America (VOA) interviews Jason Stearns, author of “Dancing in the Glory of Monsters”
- Jason Stearns | World Affairs Today : Jason Stearns, Former UN Special Investigator in the Congo, discusses his book, “Dancing in the Glory of Monsters”
- ‘Kinshasa Symphony’: An Ode to Musical Joy in Central Africa | Deceptive Cadence
- Richard Mosse’s “The Enclave” | The Huffington Post
- Congo’s Tin Idea | Al Jazeera
- Photojournalist, Susan Schulman visits Kimua, a village in the Walikale district of the eastern DRC | The Guardian
Reports
Rift Valley Institute – Usalama Project
