JHU SAIS to Host Discussion on Strategic Vison for Africa

The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will hold a forum, "A Strategic Vision for Africa: The Kampala Movement," on Wednesday, 11/20 at 5:30 p.m.

This is the next event of the "SAIS Faculty Book Series" which will feature a discussion of A Strategic Vision for Africa: The Kampala Movement, a book written by William Zartman, director of the SAIS Conflict Management Program, and Francis Deng, SAIS research professor and director of the Center for Displacement Studies, recently published by the Brookings Institution Press.

Zartman and Deng will make some introductory remarks, followed by a panel discussion about the book. Panelists include:

¨ Chester Crocker, Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown University

¨ Pauline H. Baker, president of the Fund for Peace

¨ Howard Wolpe, public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The event, free and open to the public, will be held in the first-floor auditorium of the school's Rome Building, located at 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Members of the media who want to cover this event should contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Public Affairs Office at 202.663.5626 or [email protected].