Congo

Richard Moyle, Honorary Research Professor in Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland, and Adjunct Professor at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, has spent more than ten years of fieldwork in the Pacific and Aboriginal Australia since the 1960s. His publications include monographs on traditional music in Polynesia, Papua New Guinea and Central Australia, four…

Prof Harry Verhoeven teaches at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University. Prof Verhoeven completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford, where he was a postdoctoral fellow from 2012 to 2014 and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College from 2013 to 2014. His research focuses on conflict, development and the environment…

Dr Turner is a Country Specialist for the DRC for Amnesty International USA.  He has experience writing expert affidavits and has testified orally several times in asylum cases. He has completed field research in the region, and has taught and worked at its universities. He has written extensively on the DRC, completing various books and…

Seven years of experience researching the Democratic Republic of Congo-Angola border and Angola providing expert testimonies, particularly on health-related claims.

Jason Stearns has been working on the DR Congo since 2001. He first traveled to the Eastern Congo to volunteer for a human rights organization in Bukavu, after which he joined the UN peacekeeping mission for two years. He has also worked for the International Crisis Group, as the coordinator for the UN Group of…

Mr Rawlence is a Country of Origin expert on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritea, and Somalia. He was formerly a Senior Researcher for Human Rights Watch for the Horn of Afric 2008-2013. He also traveled in eastern DRC in 2007 adn wrote a book ‘Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa’s Deadliest War’….

Dr. Brett Carter is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He employs a range of research methods to understand how modern African autocrats retain power in the face of nominally democratic institutions. His current book manuscript focuses on the Republic Congo, ruled by President…

Dr Barnett is Professorial Research Fellow in LSE Health and Social Care in the Department of Social Policy and holds an honorary Chair at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is an interdisciplinary social scientist with a background in economics, philosophy, social anthropology, sociology and political science. He is able to advise…