The LDESP program prepares participants to conduct stability and reconstruction operations, in Central Asia and also prepares senior leaders to integrate their mission with the activities of the civilian agencies and authorities responsible for stability and peace building.

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AFRICA

Operations/Agencies

• Combined Joint Task Force- Horn of Africa
• US European (African) Command
• UN: Office of the Special Adviser on Africa
• UN Mission in DRC
• UNDP--Africa

US Government Agencies

• Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• US Dept of State: North Africa
• US Dept of State: African Issues
• USAID: Africa

Publications

• Background Briefing on the Horn of Africa
  US Dept of Defense: Background briefing on the terrorist threat in the Horn of Africa
  
  
• Ethnic Conflict in the Horn of Africa
  In this chapter taken from the book Ethnicity and power in the contemporary world, some of the problems associated with the concept of ethnicity and ethnic conflict as they apply to the Horn of Africa will be examined.
  
  
• Terrorism in the Horn of Africa
  In May, 2003, the U.S. Institute of Peace convened a half-day workshop for specialists on terrorism, the Horn of Africa, and U.S. foreign policy toward Africa. The link provides a summary
  
  
• Sudan: Background on Civil War: Global Security
  Background on the civil war in Sudan and the situation in Darfur

Background

• Map: North Africa and the Middle East
• Maps: Morocco
• UN Map: Morocco
• Maps: Tunisia
• Map: Horn of Africa
• BBC Country Profile: Morocco
• BBC Country Profile: Tunisia

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