Peacebuilding in Congo with Political Scientist Séverine Autesserre

IAS faculty member Severine Autesserre is interviewed by Eric Sharfstein for Columbia News on Peacebuilding in Congo.

September 15, 2015

IAS faculty member Severine Autesserre is interviewed by Eric Sharfstein for Columbia News on Peacebuilding in Congo.

The 20-year conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed an estimated 5.4 million people since the 1990smaking it the deadliest since World War IIand armed attacks by different groups occur every week. Séverine Autesserre (SIPA‘00), a member of Columbia's Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and a political science professor at Barnard College, is an authority on international intervention, conflict resolution, and Central Africa who has researched Congo and visited the nation often since 2001.

Read the full interview here.