by Laura Seay | Oct 20, 2009 | Opinion
Dear MONUC, Washington, Brussels, London and Kinshasa: Forgive me for being so abrupt, but I have a question that demands an answer from you – the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the governments in Washington, Brussels, London and...
by Laura Seay | Sep 28, 2009 | Opinion
My students are fascinated by Somalia. Any time I use it as an example, their hands shoot up with question after question after question. I haven’t pinpointed the source of their interest, but it might have something to do with the idea of unmitigated disaster....
by Laura Seay | Jun 1, 2009 | Opinion
Well, things are heating up on this side of the Atlantic with President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. The conservatives (who were pretty obviously geared up to bash any and every nominee regardless of personal heritage or...
by Laura Seay | May 12, 2009 | Opinion
In the past six months, there’s been a concerted push by the Congo activist community to focus on the exploitation of natural resources by various armed groups and foreign governments operating in the region. Roughly modeled on the campaign to end the use of...
by Laura Seay | Apr 11, 2008 | Opinion
Tuesday night’s premiere of the HBO documentary, “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo,” was hard to watch. Basing herself in Bukavu, filmmaker Lisa Jackson traveled through South Kivu last year to make a movie about the victims and perpetrators...
