I'll respond to the point about the role of women, because that's very close to my heart.
One of the points to stress in this is that Canada should also seriously consider a gendered approach to human rights work in the DRC, mindful that women and girls are often disproportionately at a disadvantage in any of these given societies. General Dallaire laid out the scenario of women who then have children who then rejoin these armies.
One of the tropes of JHR's work is that we prioritize training women to go into positions of leadership in newsrooms, into positions where they're anchoring newscasts, and into situations where it is normalized that women are leading a public conversation about a given issue.
This has been particularly valuable, as we have seen in South Sudan, in a scenario of conflict. Most recently we have worked with a woman named Anna Nimiriano. She is now editor-in-chief of the Juba Monitor, the most influential newspaper in the country, and she is setting the public agenda for all the radio stations in terms of how this dialogue is being discussed in the country. That is critical, because she is prioritizing issues over actors. She is making sure that the focus of the conversation around the conflict is, how do we resolve issues like the issue of child soldiers? How do we address and resolve these problems, as opposed to tracking the one up, one down, who's in, who's out, Paul Malong kinds of issues that the conflict has seen to date.
We have found that when we put women into those positions, that's what happens. They prioritize children's rights, the issues of child soldiers, concerns regarding girls' access to education, and even garbage collection—all the basic developmental needs that are neglected in a situation of conflict and fragility.