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		<title>“DR Congo: Beyond the 2011 Elections” Panel 1: Théodore Trefon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Jean Gallo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 14 February 2012 the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Oxford Central Africa Forum, and the Royal African Society hosted two panel discussions on the recent elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Please read the requisite introduction and disclaimer related to my note-taking here. This post is a summary (not a transcript) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usalama.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8449931&amp;post=385&amp;subd=usalama&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“DR Congo: Beyond the 2011 Elections”: Two Panel Discussions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Jean Gallo</dc:creator>
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		<title>&#8220;Everything We Did, We Did For Us&#8221;: Diplomacy and Humanitarian Aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Jean Gallo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am just listening to my NPR Fresh Air podcasts this afternoon, and would like to share some quotes from the very interesting interview with Peter Van Buren, a veteran Foreign Service officer who &#8220;was sent to Baghdad as part of a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team, where he was in charge of a group [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usalama.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8449931&amp;post=360&amp;subd=usalama&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Danger of a Single Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Jean Gallo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I periodically listen to this talk by Chimamanda Adichie, a former classmate and a friend of mine, called &#8220;The Danger of a Single Story.&#8221;  (You can watch it here.) This evening, this quote is sticking with me.  It comes after she tells the single story she had of the houseboy her family hired, who she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usalama.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8449931&amp;post=350&amp;subd=usalama&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Honor of Douglas Adams This Towel Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 18:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Jean Gallo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I happened to be reading The Salmon of Doubt last night, and came across this gem, which called to my mind, 12 years later, such developments as wireless internet, social networking, Google Earth, crisis mapping, applications like Ushahidi, GPS navigation&#8230;  What hit me strongest while reading it was that he essentially predicts the creation of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usalama.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8449931&amp;post=332&amp;subd=usalama&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Hitting Coverage of Obama&#8217;s Middle East Speech by Carol Gallo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 18:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Jean Gallo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It got some laughs on Twitter.  Enjoy!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usalama.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8449931&amp;post=314&amp;subd=usalama&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Cups of Tea: A View From Waziristan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Jean Gallo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn’t going to get involved in the whole Three-Cups-of-Tea-Mageddon.  (You can find links to 130 and counting blog posts here courtesy of the very excellent Good Intentions Are Not Enough site.)  I was like “okay, the guy’s a douche and he made a bunch of money off of his douchery, next conversation please.” But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usalama.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8449931&amp;post=307&amp;subd=usalama&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Questions from Europeans and Americans to Kenyan Tourism Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Jean Gallo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original Lead-In: These questions about Kenya were posted on a Kenyan Tourism portal and were answered by the website owner.  I came across them through a Kenyan classmate of mine at Yale. Update: Thanks to my ever clever friends on Twitter, particularly Brett Keller, it quickly came to my attention that the whole Q&#38;A is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usalama.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8449931&amp;post=299&amp;subd=usalama&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mbuyuni Development Youth Group: A Contribution to A Day Without Dignity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Jean Gallo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a contribution in support of the Day Without Dignity counter-campaign proposed by Saundra S. at the blog Good Intentions Are Not Enough.  Please read the post about the counter-campaign at the link above, and please see the post that showcases and summarizes all the Day Without Dignity posts here. In the summer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usalama.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8449931&amp;post=284&amp;subd=usalama&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on DRI’s New Directions in Development Conference: Professor William Easterly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Jean Gallo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below are some of my thoughts on Professor Easterly&#8217;s talk at the NYU Development Research Institute&#8216;s New Directions in Development Conference on March 4, 2011. More posts to follow as they get written. “From Skepticism to Development” William Easterly, NYU Department of Economics Professor Easterly’s talk was centered on the idea of challenging the notion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usalama.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8449931&amp;post=275&amp;subd=usalama&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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