Douglas Yates Invited in South Africa to Present at a Conference on Conflict Resolution

On August 30th, Douglas Yates was invited by the Center for Conflict Resolution to Stellenbosch, South Africa, to present a paper on "The French Peacekeeping Role in Africa", to be published in a forthcoming edited volume. This presentation was part of a conference on the theme of “Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding in Africa,”In his paper, Professor Yates discusses how Johan Galtung’s concepts of positive and negative peace can be used as criteria to evaluate recent French interventions in Ivory Coast, Mali, DRC and CAR.

Other participants in the conference included Ambassador James Jonah (former UN Undersecretary General for Political Affairs), Ibrahim Gambari (former head of UNAMID in Darfur), Ambassador Francis Deng (UN Representative for South Sudan) Ambassador John Hirsch (former US ambassador to Sierra Leone), Dr. Mary Chinery-Hesse (AU Panel of the Wise), and Professor Margaret Vogt (head of BINUCA in Central African Republic).

Established by the University of Cape Town in 1968 as an independent nonprofit organization, the Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR) is dedicated to training, mediation, research, policy development and capacity building in the field of conflict prevention, management and resolution. It was ranked #6 in the top 50 think tanks in Sub-Saharan Africa in the University of Pennsylvania 2012 Global Go To Think Tank Rankings, which did a comprehensive ranking of 6,603 think tanks in 182 countries.

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