Jason Stearns

Jason Stearns, political analyst, PhD candidate at Yale, and the author of the blog Congo Siasa and the book Dancing in the Glory of Monsters:The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa, discusses the rebel group M23 and the latest on their presence in Congo.

Jason Stearns talks about the brutal war that has raged in Congo since 1996, costing millions of lives. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa tells the story of this misunderstood and overlooked conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it. He spoke with key architects of the war that became as great a disaster as—and was a direct consequence of—the genocide in Rwanda.