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------Original message------ From: Rift Valley Institute <[email protected]> To: "elisabeth" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013 6:18:25 PM GMT+0000 Subject: RVI April 2013 Update http://www.riftvalley.net/ The Rift Valley Institute is a non-profit organisation operating in the Sudans, the Horn of Africa, East Africa and the Great Lakes region. The Institute works with communities, institutions and individuals to bring local knowledge to bear on political and economic development. RVI projects are designed to influence aid interventions, support local research capacity, record and preserve indigenous culture and promote freedom of information. Fellows of the Institute, drawn from Eastern Africa and beyond, are practitioners, activists and academic specialists in the fields of history, anthropology, political science, economics, development, conservation, human rights, media and law. MORE INFORMATION www.riftvalley.net CONTACT Rift Valley Institute (UK) 26 St.Luke's Mews London W11 1DF T: +44 20 7229 2562 Rift Valley Institute (EA) PO Box 30710 GPO 00100 Nairobi, Kenya T: +254 705 978 413 T: +254 789 253 805 Rift Valley Institute (USA) Bard College PO Box 5000 Annandale-on-Hudson NY 12504-5000 EMAIL [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Follow us on... http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rift-Valley-Institute/299393606778805 http://twitter.com/rvinews http://www.youtube.com/user/Riftvalleyinstitutehttps://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/rift-valley-institute/id591349459 CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS EMAIL IN YOUR BROWSER (http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=bbe4bf6326e7666108dd11e6f&id=bd28b54fe9&e=52793493b1) | FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO A FRIEND (http://us5.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=bbe4bf6326e7666108dd11e6f&id=bd28b54fe9&e=52793493b1) Rift Valley Institute Update April 2013 Field Courses deadline… New RVI post in Juba… Nuruddin Farah and Binyavanga Wainaina… Change in Somalia… Textiles that talk… Humanitarians in Goma… South Sudan's Constitution… Bosco Ntaganda, Raia Mutomboki FIELD COURSES EAST AFRICA Deadline for RVI Courses 2013 31 March is the application deadline for the Institute’s three annual Field Courses (http://www.riftvalley.net/courses) . The courses are intensive, week-long training events that provide the basis for an understanding of current political and developmental challenges in three sub-regions: Sudan and South Sudan; the Horn of Africa; and the Great Lakes. All three courses will take place in Jinja, Uganda, in June and July. New additions to the teaching roster include Jean-Paul Kimonyo, Senior Advisor to the Office of the President of Rwanda (http://www.presidency.gov.rw) , Professor Shiferaw Bekele of Addis Ababa University (http://www.aau.edu.et) , and Hala al-Karib, Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) (http://www.sihanet.org/) . For further details of the dates, syllabus and core teaching staff of the courses, please download the course prospectus (available in English (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/f2uwqzfkkjajy0r/RVI%20-%202013%20Course%20Prospectus.pdf) and French (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/gjl6e2p37uzy1rw/RVI%20-%202013%20Prospectus%20du%20Stage.pdf) ). Alternatively, write to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) . You can apply online here (https://riftvalley.wufoo.com/forms/rift-valley-institute-field-courses-2013/) . Applications received after the deadline will only be accepted in the event of cancellations. RVI COURSES (http://www.riftvalley.net/courses) | 2013 COURSE PROSPECTUS (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/f2uwqzfkkjajy0r/RVI%20-%202013%20Course%20Prospectus.pdf) | PROSPECTUS DU STAGE 2013 (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/gjl6e2p37uzy1rw/RVI%20-%202013%20Prospectus%20du%20Stage.pdf) | INFORMATION SHEET (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/cytlrgubqbkos3t/RVI%20-%20Course%20Marketing%20-%20One%20pager.pdf) | APPLY (https://riftvalley.wufoo.eu/forms/rift-valley-institute-field-courses-2013/) SOUTH SUDAN New position in RVI Juba Office The Institute invites applications for the post of South Sudan Programme Manager to administer the RVI's recently-established office in Juba, South Sudan. The Programme Manager will be responsible for general office management and project administration in South Sudan. Applicants must be entitled to work in South Sudan. A job description can be downloaded here (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/0ipuukqmfv5glph/RVI%20Job%20Description%20-%20South%20Sudan%20Programme%20Manager%20-%2028%20March%202013.pdf) . You can apply online here (https://riftvalley.wufoo.com/forms/rvi-employment/) . The deadline for applications is 10 April 2013. JOB ANNOUNCEMENT (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/0ipuukqmfv5glph/RVI%20Job%20Description%20-%20South%20Sudan%20Programme%20Manager%20-%2028%20March%202013.pdf) | APPLY ONLINE (https://riftvalley.wufoo.eu/forms/rvi-employment/) NAIROBI FORUM HORN OF AFRICA Nuruddin Farah in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina On 18 April, the Nairobi Forum will host an evening with Nuruddin Farah in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina. Nuruddin Farah, Somalia’s leading author, is the author of twelve novels including the just published Crossbones. Binyavanga Wainaina is the founding editor of Kwani and author of a recent memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place (http://grantabooks.com/One-Day-I-Will-Write-About-This-Place) . The event, held in collaboration with the Kwani Trust (http://www.kwani.org) , will take place from 18.30 to 20.30. Venue to be announced. Please check the RVI website for updates, or contact [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) . ONE DAY I WILL WRITE ABOUT THIS PLACE (http://grantabooks.com/One-Day-I-Will-Write-About-This-Place) | KWANI TRUST (http://www.kwani.org) | BOOKS BY NURUDDIN FARAH (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nuruddin-Farah/e/B000AR88FW) NAIROBI FORUM HORN OF AFRICA Continuity and change in Somalia On 19 April, the Forum will host the launch of a special Somalia edition of the Journal of Eastern African Studies (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjea20/current) . Speakers will include Markus Hoehne of the Max Planck Institute (http://eth-mpg.academia.edu/MarkusHoehne) , Jutta Bakonyi of the University of Durham (https://www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/profiles/?id=10694) , and Jason Mosley, editor of the JEAS. The seminar will take place at the British Institute in Eastern Africa from 1.00-4.00 pm. Contact [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) or check the RVI website for updates. JOURNAL OF EAST AFRICAN STUDIES (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjea20/current) | MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE (http://eth-mpg.academia.edu/MarkusHoehne) | UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM (https://www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/profiles/?id=10694) ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY Textiles that talk Textiles that talk, an exhibition of kangas — East African fabrics incorporating Swahili proverbs — opens in mid-April in the RVI office at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of the late Nigerian author Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), who taught at Bard College for two decades. BARD COLLEGE (http://bard.edu/) GREAT LAKES Koen Vlassenroot on the humanitarian industry in Goma Over the last 20 years, the Congolese city of Goma has attracted almost 100 international NGOs, due to its history of violent conflicts, natural disasters and vast refugee population. In ‘The Humanitarian industry and urban change in Goma’, an article co-authored with Karen Büscher for Open Democracy (http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/karen-b%C3%BCscher-koen-vlassenroot/humanitarian-industry-and-urban-change-in-goma) , RVI Fellow Koen Vlassenroot writes: ‘In sharp contrast to the main objectives of their interventions, humanitarian organizations contribute considerably to the increasing marginalization and exclusion of the urban periphery, and to the confirmation of a “ville duale”, where … old colonial structures of inequality and social and spatial segregation are being reconfirmed’. KOEN VLASSENROOT'S ARTICLE ON OPEN DEMOCRACY (http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/karen-b%C3%BCscher-koen-vlassenroot/humanitarian-industry-and-urban-change-in-goma) SOUTH SUDAN Constitution building in South Sudan Constitution building in South Sudan was the subject of the 2013 RVI Juba Lecture series, held in collaboration with the Centre for Peace and Development Studies at the University of Juba from 6 to 8 March. Keynote speakers were Professor Akolda Tier, Chair of South Sudan’s National Constitutional Review Commission (http://www.goss-online.org/magnoliaPublic/en/Independant-Commissions-and-Chambers/South-Sudan-Law-Review-Commission.html) , Jacob Akol, Director of the Gurtong Trust (http://www.gurtong.net) ; and David Deng, Research Director at the South Sudan Law Society (http://www.namati.org/organizations/south-sudan-law-society-ssls/) . The lecture series attracted a diverse audience of South Sudanese students, social activists, and political leaders. Podcasts from the three evenings are available on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/rift-valley-institute/id591349459) or on the RVI website (http://www.riftvalley.net) . NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW COMMISSION (http://www.goss-online.org/magnoliaPublic/en/Independant-Commissions-and-Chambers/South-Sudan-Law-Review-Commission.html) | GURTONG (http://www.gurtong.net) | SOUTH SUDAN LAW SOCIETY (http://www.namati.org/organizations/south-sudan-law-society-ssls/) | PODCAST (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/rift-valley-institute/id591349459) USALAMA PROJECT GREAT LAKES Bosco Ntaganda, Raia Mutomboki, and the FNI/FRPI In a surprise development, the ICC indictee General Bosco Ntaganda, subject of a recent Usalama briefing paper, turned himself in to the US Embassy in Kigali on 18 March. The latest reports from the Usalama project — Raia Mutomboki: The Flawed Peace Process in the DRC and the Birth of an Armed Franchise by Jason Stearns, and FNI/FRPI: Local Resistance and Regional Politics in North-eastern Congo by Henning Tamm — will be available in English and French in April for free download (http://www.riftvalley.net/pubications) from the RVI website, and in print from Amazon. DOWNLOAD USALAMA REPORTS (http://www.riftvalley.net/publications) | USALAMA REPORTS ON AMAZON (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=%22Usalama+Project%22) Sent to [email protected] — why did I get this? 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