Event | Zimbabwe: The Presidential Run-off Election and its Implications

The Wilson Center's Africa Program and ENOUGH are pleased to invite you to a discussion of the upcoming Presidential Run-off election in Zimbabwe. With: Ray Choto, Senior Editor, Voice of America, Zimbabwe Desk Jamal Jafari, Senior Peace Fellow, Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG), and Consultant, ENOUGH Campaign Dileepan Sivapathasundaram, Senior Program Officer, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs Gayle Smith, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress and Co-Chair of the ENOUGH Campaign Moderator: Howard Wolpe, Director, Africa Program Date: Wednesday, May 28th, 2008, 10:00 to 11:30AM Where: 6th Floor Auditorium of the Woodrow Wilson Center in the Ronald Reagan Building. One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC The speakers will provide a comprehensive assessment of this increasingly tenuous and uncertain political crisis, and analyze the implications of the controversial second round of elections. Panelists will include: Ray Choto, Jamal Jafari, Dileepan Sivapathasundaram, and Gayle Smith. Ray Choto is Senior Editor at the Voice of America Zimbabwe Desk and is the founding editor of a Zimbabwean radio station, Studio 7 News, based at Voice of America offices in Washington, DC. Jamal Jafari is a Senior Peace Fellow with the Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG), working with governments and sub-state entities in the developing world to draft Cease-Fire Agreements, Peace Agreements, and Constitutions and drafts plans for demobilization programs and transitional justice initiatives. He is also a consultant with the ENOUGH Campaign. Dileepan Sivapathasundaram is a Senior Program Officer at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. For the past several years he was based in Johannesburg, South Africa working with democratic political and civic groups in Zimbabwe in the run up to the national elections in March 2008. Gayle Smith is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Co-Chair of the ENOUGH Campaign. She also is Director of the International Rights & Responsibilities Program. She served previously as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council, from 1998-2001, and as Senior Advisor to the Administrator and Chief of Staff of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1994-1998. The panel will be moderated by Howard Wolpe, Director of the Wilson Center's Africa Program. Ambassador Wolpe is a former seven-term Member of Congress and a former Presidential Special Envoy to Africa's Great Lakes Region. Please RSVP by e-mail to Africa Program Assistant Mame Khady Diouf at africa@wilsoncenter.org Full Name: Title: Organization/Department: Mailing Address: Phone: Fax: E-mail: