Rwanda – Galilee International Management Institute was invited to participate in a forum discussing East Africa’s security together with African participating countries: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan represented by senior officers from Defense and Foreign Affairs Ministries, in addition to senior level officials from the Security Forces and Police (including current and past Chiefs of Staff).
This was the third gathering which took place at Rwanda’s Defense College, with the participation of Rwanda’s Defense and Foreign Affairs Ministers.
Galilee Institute was represented by President, Dr. Yossie Shevel, who gave a lecture about the influence of climate changes on East Africa’s security. He talked about how the anticipated water shortage can easily cause a local or regional eruption; likewise, the decrease in rain quantities, agricultural population may immigrate to the cities and create high density urban areas and “strangle” urban activity.
Galilee Institute's Centre for Strategic Studies and Bradford University (UK) are the only two institutes outside Africa to be invited to take part in these conferences.
During the meeting, discussions dealt with how to halt the Muslim penetration to East Africa along with arising nationalism that already started to show on the Muslim coast and in the northern counties of Kenya.