PeaceLab Podcast Part 2: Transitions from Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding: What is at Stake in the DRC?

"The podcast discusses the challenges and opportunities of planning for a transition from peacekeeping to peacebuilding in general and more specifically in the Democratic Republic of the Congo."

This episode outlines how the lessons ... view more

Additional Info

Topics: Fragility, Conflict and Violence, Fragility
Regions:
Africa, East Africa, West Africa
Keywords:
Fragility Forum, Fragility Forum 2020, Fragility Forum 2020 Virtual Series, FF2020, conflict-affected situations, FCV, Fragile Situations, Peacebuilding, Transitions, Stabilization, The DRC Sub-Saharan Africa, Fragile State, EU, UN, MONUSCO, multilateralism
Language:
English
Learning Mode:
Podcast
Date Added: August 20, 2020

About the Presenters

Ruphin Bo-Elongo Kimueme

General Director / Coordinator, Social Fund of the DRC

Ruphin Bo-Elongo Kimueme (@BoRuphin) is a Development Project Manager with extensive experience in managing and coordinating community development and crisis response projects. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics (1990) and an accreditation in Development Project Management (2016). After a career of almost 12 years of auditing with the international firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (1993-2004), he joined the Social Fund of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FSRDC) in 2004, first as Administrative and Financial Director and two years later as General Coordinator (from 2006 to date). To his credit, there have been several achievements in successful management and coordination in difficult contexts, of social protection and community development projects/programmes, implemented with the financial support of the World Bank, having achieved satisfactory outcomes. These include the Emergency Social Action Project (2005-2013, $103M) in a difficult post-conflict context, the Project for the Stabilization of Eastern DRC for Peace (2014-2020, $129.1M) and the Social Responses to the Ebola Crisis Project (2019 to date).

Passy Mubalama

Executive Director, AIDPROFEN

Passy Mubalama (@passymubalama) is a pro-democracy and women’s rights activist with over 10 years of experience in promoting democracy, human rights, good governance and the rule of law in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). She is founder and executive director of Action and Development Initiative for the Protection of Women and Children (AIDPROFEN), a nonprofit organization that promotes women’s rights in the eastern region of the DRC. Her personal experiences reporting human rights violations from Goma’s IDP camps inspired her in 2011 to found AIDPROFEN. In 2016, with funding from NED, she founded the Education Center on Democracy and Human Rights in the DRC, which organizes trainings and arranges meetings between community and local party leaders in order to bolster women’s political engagement. For her notable work to strengthen women’s and youth participation in public affairs, she received a Mandela Washington Fellowship from the Young African Leaders Initiative in 2014. In 2018 she received the Regean Fascell democracy fellow at NED During her fellowship, Ms. Mubalama worked on a handbook of strategies to address conflict between women’s political participation and traditional notions of the role of women in eastern DRC.
Passy is one of the 2020 women of distinction awardees in New York.

Leila Zerrougui

Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO

Leila Zerrougui (@SRSG_MONUSCO) is a Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO. Prior to her current position, Ms. Zerrougui served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict (2012 - 2016) and as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in MONUSCO (2008 - 2012), where she spearheaded the Mission’s efforts in strengthening the rule of law and protection of civilians. A legal expert in human rights and the administration of justice, Ms. Zerrougui was a member of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention under the UN Human Rights Council from 2001 to 2003, and served as the Working Group’s Chairperson-Rapporteur from 2003 to 2008. Prior to her international engagements, Ms. Zerrougui had a longstanding career in Algeria, where in 2000 she was appointed to the Supreme Court.

Jean-Marc Châtaigner

European Union's Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Delegation of the European Union to the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jean-Marc Châtaigner (@Jmchataigner) is currently the European Union's Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1 September 2019. He was previously France's Special Ambassador for the Sahel (2017-2019), Deputy Director-General of the Development Research Institute (2015/2017), Deputy Director General of Globalization, Development and Partnerships at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (2012-2015), French Ambassador to Madagascar (2009/2012). Mr. Châtaigner is the author of numerous articles and essays on the issue of development and post-conflict ('A challenge for the planet: The Goals of Sustainable Development in Debate' (2017), 'Fragility and Resilience: The New Frontiers of Globalization' (2014), 'Fragile States and Societies: Between Conflict, Reconstruction and Development' (2007)).

Paul Bance

Social Protection Team Leader for DRC, World Bank

Paul Bance works as a senior operations officer in the Social Protection Department of the World Bank, where he is the team leader for the program in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over the last ten years, Mr. Bance has developed an expertise on community development and social safety nets in fragile and conflict settings. Mr. Bance holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute.

Marie Wagner

Research Associate, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)

Marie Wagner (@MarieWgn) is a Research Associate at the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, where she contributes to the institute’s work on humanitarian action and peace and security. She is an editor of the PeaceLab Blog (@PeaceLabBlog). The PeaceLab project is run by GPPi to foster debate on conflict prevention, stabilization and peacebuilding, and is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.

Join the Discussion

MOHAMMAD

- Jan 12, 2021

Great!

Nirmal

- Jan 4, 2021

important

MOHAMMAD

- Dec 8, 2020

IMPORTENT

MOHAMMAD

- Dec 8, 2020

IMPORTENT

Jared Troy

- Oct 29, 2020

Great information - thank you.

Mariam

- Oct 15, 2020

very interesting, thank you!

Joy Mildred Adhiambo

- Sep 1, 2020

Great

Mohammad Nadir

- Aug 23, 2020

Excellent!