There are many other causes of violence beyond the electoral political issues. And by realizing democracy and peace do not always go together. The two most important measures today are to increase the United States support to local and bottomup peacekeepers and to include local actors in the drivers. The delaying Holding Elections is only one among many issues that fueled violence in congo and importantly, local conflicts at the village ordistrict level also fuel taextensive violence. So to be clear, yes, national and International Leaders regularly manipulate local arms groups including for electoral purposes but at the same time, local combatants use national and regional attention as a way to pursue their own local goals. For instance, in north and south giggle, they allied with National Leaders in Foreign Military to get control of neighboring land. As a result, congo needs bottomup help in addition to the topdown approach. In other words, im not saying that we should replace the e
Thank you so much chairman, smith, Ranking Members for organizing this hearing and for inviting me. Im a researcher and officer of Political Science at columbia university. Over the past two years dip mats, politicians have focused mostly on the political crisis around general elections and on the struggle for power. Were so preoccupied with the up coming elections that were diverting our attention awae from the many other issues that are causing violence in congo. And were wasting the opportunity to tackle these issues. Based on peace building and several years of working in congo, i believe and i will show you in my state, theres a better way to help revise these conflicts. There are many other caws of violence beyond the electoral political issue. And by acknowledging democracy and peace do not always go together. The two most important measures congress can take are to increase the United States support to peace building and to put local actors in the drivers seat. The delay of Hol
All right. Lets get more alphabet soup for you. In the u. S. Today, adp. The adp employment report is in the headlines this morning. Whats coming at 10 00 . At 10 00, well, we get the ism, of course. But also coming today so confusing. For adp, forecasters saying 178,000 private sector payrolls were likely added last month. Also on the agenda, we have weekly jobless claims, 8 30 eastern time. And the revision to the Second Quarter productivity and cost. Then at 10 00, as joe pointed out, we have ism nonmanufacturing and factory orders. Think if this is the first time you tuned in and you happen to be channel surfing weppi today too. Let me see what this Business News is about. They dont even speak english. What language is that . What is the dow doing . The dow . The dow. The markets, the dow is coming off its best day in more than a month. The s p 500 and nasdaq had their biggest gains in nearly two weeks. And auto sales. Huge auto sales. Jackson. See the numbers we had, 16. 09 millio
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