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Nov 22, 2019

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW we speak with Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholar Paterne Mombe.  Mombe discusses the impact the five-year conflict in the Central African Republic has had on subsistence farmer’s food production, exacerbating rampant poverty among rural populations. He also describes...


Nov 22, 2019

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW we speak with Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholar Emmanuel Matambo.  Motambo discusses his project which focuses on China's relations and investment in Zambia and how this has shaped politics and recent elections in that nation.  The project also compares China’s...


Nov 22, 2019

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW we speak with Arnaud Kurze and Christopher Lamont, co-editors of the new book New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice: Gender, Art & Memory.


Nov 22, 2019

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW we speak with Meg Lundsager and Shihoko Goto on the International Monetary Fund’s new leadership under Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. We also focus on the tenure of former Managing Director Christine Lagarde, the changing role of the IMF in a shifting global order, and...


Nov 15, 2019

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW we speak with Andrei Kozyrev, former Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, about his new book The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy. Kozyrev provides an eyewitness account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the struggle to create a democratic Russia under...