St. John's University Rome Graduate Programs

This Tuesday, March 29th, our Rome campus and Department of Government and Politics are hosting a special lecture titled “Crisis Management & International Justice: The Case of The Great Lakes Region of Africa” Our guest speaker will be Leonardo Baroncelli, former Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
While being commonly considered an area of high economic potential, the Great Lakes region is recovering from a long period of conflict, from which only Tanzania has emerged largely unscathed. However, recent developments have been encouraging, paving the way to new security dynamics and reform processes. After the last presidential elections held in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), cautious hope is being expressed that the cycle of violence and political instability could finally be drawing to a close. The region is now almost free of armed conflict with the exception of Eastern DRC, where control by the government forces and security remain very fragile. Yet tensions between the DRC and its neighbors to the east still exist, and Congolese military operations against the armed groups are still active there, and are proceeding at a slow pace. Hope remains that stability and development can increase and positively impact the countries of the region and other post conflict countries.
The lecture will analyze the context and the great potential for growth in the region as well as the expectations of its people, which, for so many years, have been victims and hostages of authoritarian rule, impunity, mismanagement and kleptocracy, and which rightly deserve a better future that includes peace, stability and human and social development.
The event will take place at our Rome campus in the Aula Magna (Room 214) at 7pm. Refreshments will be served afterwards. You, your colleagues and students are all welcome to join us. If you can share the attached flyer, we would greatly appreciate it!
As places are limited, please sign up by clicking on this link by the end of today Monday March 28 https://www.sjurome.com/events/crisis-management-international-justice-the-case-of-the-great-lakes-region-of-africa