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| Jacques Depelchin |
| He was born in the Congo and educated at Lovanium University
(Kinshasa) in the DRC, the University of London, Johns Hopkins
University in Italy, and Stanford. He has taught African History and
related subjects at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State,
Stanford, Syracuse, and universities in DR Congo, Mozambique, and
Tanzania.
He was present in the Eastern Congo during the most recent war in
1996-2002, and was a member of the non-militarist RCD-Kisangani
movement led by Ernest Wamba dia Wamba which opposed continuation of
the war. He participated in the negotiations leading to the Lusaka
Cease-fire, those leading to Sun City-1 in 2002, and later, in
portions of the negotiations leading to the Global and Inclusive
Accord in Pretoria, 2003.
He is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Berkeley-based Ota Benga International Alliance for
Peace in the DR Congo. Under its umbrella, he is researching
American and Congolese social healing and bringing together the
healers, as well as lecturing and writing on the DR Congo to improve
American understanding of its history and present realities. The Ota
Benga Alliance is linked with a sister organization in Kinshasa, The
Ota Benga Center for Human Dignity.
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