Ben Shepherd has worked on the Great Lakes region since 2002 in a variety of policy and research roles. Most recently he was the 2009-10 David Davies of Llandinam research fellow in International Relations at the London School of Economics.

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Accord Issue 22: Cross-border peacebuilding

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