The Future of the Crises in Mali: Imagining the Ways Forward (HYBRID)
Mali has been embroiled in a governance and security crisis for more than a decade. Despite more than 16,000 international troops, Mali continues to grapple with increasing insecurity (intercommunal violence, human rights violations, and violent extremism) as well as political instability, including three coup d’états. The persistence of the crises, with their domestic and international dimensions, as well as their complexity, prompts us to reflect on ways forward. What are the challenges facing Mali today? How might we imagine a different future for Mali?
Panelists:
Moussa Kondo (virtual)
Special Advisor to the President of Mali
2018 Obama Fellow, 2015 YALI Fellow, and Stanford University Draper Hills Fellow
Nicolas Normand
Associate Fellow at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs
Former French Ambassador to Senegal/Gambia and Mali
Moumouni Soumano
Kellogg Institute Hewlett Visiting Fellow for Public Policy
Assistant Professor of Administrative and Political Sciences, University of Bamako (Mali)
Bisa Williams
Senior Fellow and Lecturer, Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
Former US Ambassador to Niger
Moderator:
Jaimie Bleck
Associate Professor of Political Science
Senior Research Advisor, Ford Program
Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow
Cosponsored with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.
Jaimie Bleck
Jaimie Bleck is an associate professor of political science and the senior research advisor for the Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. She also is a concurrent faculty member in the Keough School of Global Affairs. She has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2011...
Moussa Kondo
Moussa Kondo, a journalist and civil society activist, is currently is a special advisor to the president of Mali...
Nicolas Normand
Nicolas Normand is an associate fellow at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS), specializing in the Sub-Saharan Africa region...
Moumouni Soumano
This profile was current as of 2022, when he was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Moumouni Soumano is assistant professor of administrative and political sciences University of Bamako (Mali) and the Kellogg Institute’s 2021-2022 Hewlett Visiting Fellow for Public Policy. He studies development cooperation in fragile and conflict-affected states, with a focus on linking research and policy reform...