Lauren Picone is a graduate student of Political Science-United Nations and Global Policy Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Her academic interests include; rebuilding post-conflict states, peacebuilding, youth empowerment, migration, and international development. She recently completed a summer program studying EU-Africa trade relations and migration issues at the International Center for Development and Decent Work at Universität Kassel where she was able to meet with politicians and interest groups to discuss strategies for African economic development. Picone received her bachelor’s degree in History with minors in International Studies and Italian from Arcadia University in 2018.
The political climate in the Central African Republic (CAR) has been in a combative state of civil war since 2012. […]
