{"id":32344,"date":"2018-03-12T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=32344"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:41:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:41:40","slug":"longman-briefs-u-s-ambassador-to-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2018\/03\/12\/longman-briefs-u-s-ambassador-to-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Longman Briefs U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/11\/longman_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/11\/longman_resized-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"longman_resized\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19755\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/timothy-p-longman\/\">Timothy Longman,<\/a><span>\u00a0Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Science and Director of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/\">the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs<\/a>\u00a0(CURA) at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,\u00a0participated in a March 12, 2018 executive analytic exchange on Rwanda with the newly appointed United States\u00a0Ambassador to Rwanda Peter H. Vrooman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The exchange was held at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. Longman delivered a briefing entitled &#8220;Controlling the Narrative: The RPF and the Public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michele Wagner, of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, delivered the opening remarks at the exchange. Susan Thomson, of Colgate University, presented on &#8220;The Environment of Reconciliation and Ideological Rehabilitation.&#8221; Scott Strauss, of the University of Wisconsin, delivered a talk entitled &#8220;Rebuilding Rwanda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peter H. Vrooman is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service.\u00a0 He began his career in 1991. His most recent posting was as the Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.\u00a0 Prior to that assignment, he served as spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/timothy-p-longman\/\">Longman<\/a><span>\u2019s current research focuses on state -society relations in Africa, looking particularly at human rights, transitional justice, democratization, civil society, the politics of race and ethnicity, religion and politics, and women and politics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Timothy Longman delivered a briefing entitled &#8220;Controlling the Narrative: The RPF and the Public&#8221; to the U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda, Peter H. Vrooman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414],"tags":[10745,9937,1296,8611,9801],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32346,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32344\/revisions\/32346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}