Jason StearnsJason K. Stearns has been working on the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2001. He has worked for Heritiers de la Justice, the United Nations peacekeeping mission, and as a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group. In 2008, he led a Unted Nations investigation on conflict in the east of the country. He is currently managing a research project for the Rift Valley Institute on Congolese armed groups, the Usalama Project. His articles and opinion pieces have appeared in the Financial Times, the Economist, Africa Confidential, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. He blogs at congosiasa.blogspot.com. Read More Read Less