Completed Projects

Conference: The Kimberley Process to Curb Conflict Diamonds: Early Achievements, Congressional Action, Next Steps, April 2003

On April 10, 2003, the CSIS Africa Program hosted an international conference on the Kimberley Process, a certification scheme to curb trade in rough diamonds fueling and financing conflict in Sierra Leone, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Liberia. The conference brought together for the first time representatives from the diamond industry, diamond-producing countries, U.S. government, and nongovernmental organizations. Featured speakers included Abbey Chikane, chair of the South African Diamond Board and of the Kimberley Process negotiations, and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner.

Resource Group on Oil and Wealth-sharing in Sudan, August 2002

At the request of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), former senator John Danforth, President George W. Bush's special envoy on Sudan, and the State Department, the CSIS Africa Program organized a team of energy experts to make a series of presentations on wealth sharing and Sudan's oil sector to the government of Sudan and SPLM/A negotiating parties in Machakos, Kenya (August 16–18, 2002). The presentations covered Sudan's current oil sector, potential future growth, various contractual obligations, possible wealth-sharing and revenue fund options, monitoring mechanisms, and Sudan's oil industry in the context of the global energy market.

1. CSIS Background Paper
2. PFC Survey of Sudan's Oil Sector - Summary
3. PFC Survey of Sudan's Oil Sector - Detail
4. Sudan in the Global Energy Market
5. Models for Revenue Sharing
6. Global Overview of Oil Funds
7. CEO Decisionmaking: Political and Economic Risk Factors

Conference: U.S. Policy toward Angola, June 2001

The CSIS Africa Program and the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce (UACC) cohosted a conference on U.S.-Angola relations on June 12, 2001. The conference aimed, early in the George W. Bush administration, to raise the profile of U.S. foreign policy stakes in Angola and generate discussion on the critical U.S. policy issues and choices. It assembled senior representatives of the Angolan government, U.S. policymakers, and nongovernmental Angola experts to promote an open exchange on prospects for ending Angola's internal war; Luanda's evolving security interests in Congo; oil, democratic governance, and economic reform; and the evolving U.S.-Angolan relationship. CSIS Africa Program director J. Stephen Morrison and UACC executive director Paul Hare cochaired the event.

Conference Agenda
Conference Report

Africa Policy in the Clinton Years: Critical Choices for the Bush Administration, October 2001

Edited by J. Stephen Morrison and Jennifer G.Cooke
Forward by Chester A. Crocker

This volume examines evolving challenges in Africa, assesses U.S.-Africa policy in the Clinton years, and offers pragmatic recommendations to the Bush administration on critical Africa-related policy decisions. The report is a product of six working groups that met over an eight-month period and were led by Nan Borton, Jendayi E. Frazer, Jeffrey I. Herbst, Peter M. Lewis, Princeton N. Lyman, Terrence P. Lyons, Gwendolyn Mikell, J. Stephen Morrison, and Victor Tanner. Recommendations focus on: the pursuit of U.S. economic interests, crisis diplomacy, investment in security operations, humanitarian assistance, bilateral policy toward Nigeria and South Africa, and responding to HIV/AIDS.

CSIS Sudan Task Force: U.S. Policy to End Sudan's War, February 2001

The CSIS Task Force was cochaired by J. Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Africa Program, and Dr. Francis M. Deng, senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. Its purpose was to generate a consensus around feasible, constructive new ideas of how to proceed more effectively in influencing Khartoum, the SPLA, and other major actors in pursuit of an end to terrorism, a just peace settlement, respect for human rights, and an effective humanitarian response. Funded by the U.S. Institute for Peace, the Task Force was launched in July 2000 and held 11 sessions. More than 50 individuals participated, and a number of noted experts on priority topics gave presentations. Regular participants included congressional staff, human rights advocates, experts on religious freedom, academic authorities on Sudan, former senior policymakers, refugee advocates, representatives of relief an development groups, and officials of the Clinton administration and United Nations, among others. The views of many Sudanese were also solicited at different points throughout the project. The project culminated in the report U.S. Policy to End Sudan's War, which was presented at a conference at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on February 26, 2001.

The U.S. Department of State requested that the CSIS Africa Program serve as executive secretariat for the Africa Policy Advisory Panel, for which Congress authorized monies in the 2003 omnibus spending bill. The program guided a review of U.S.-Africa policy in eight key areas: the implementation of President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief; options for strengthening Africa's private sector; post-conflict reconstruction in Sudan; past and projected revenues for oil production in key African oil-producing states; regional security and counterterrorism; environmental protection; energy policy; and crisis diplomacy. The panel reported its findings in a report entitled Rising U.S. Stakes in Africa: Seven Proposals to Strengthen U.S.-Africa Policy  to Secretary of State Colin Powell in mid-March 2004.