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Do Human Rights Protections Advance Counterterrorism Objectives?

Date and time: April 28, 2020, from 4 to 5:15 pm Eastern Daylight Time

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Does democracy foster economic growth? Do human rights protections advance counterterrorism objectives? Does great power competition hurt or empower the continent? Does the U.S. even need a foreign policy for sub-Saharan Africa? Since the 1990s, there generally has been consensus about U.S. priorities and policies toward the region. While continuity has its merits, it also acts as a brake on creativity, innovation, and new thinking about U.S. interests in sub-Saharan Africa. The Center for Strategic and International Studies Africa Debate Series offers an opportunity to question and refine policy objectives to meet a changing political landscape.

Experts will face off to identify the advantages and disadvantages of human rights protections in sub-Saharan Africa and to open a dialogue on a new framework for US foreign policy toward the region.

Join the CSIS Africa Program online for our third debate on April 28, 2020, from 4 to 5:15 pm Eastern Daylight Time. CSIS will pose the question, “Do human rights protections advance counter-terrorism objectives?”

Additional speaker information will be added as we get closer to the event date. Save the date, register, and subscribe [4] to the CSIS Africa Program distribution list to receive updates on the Debate Series.

This event is made possible through the generous support of Open Society Foundations.