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Radio Vatican - Les dossiers de Radio VaticanLes minerais congolais, cartes politiquesUn accord minier entre la République démocratique du Congo et les États-Unis pourrait rebattre les cartes dans l’Afrique des Grands Lacs. Kinshasa y voit un moyen de parvenir à la paix dans l’est de son territoire, ravagé par les conflits depuis une trentaine d’années. L’alliance avec Washington aurait en effet une portée qui irait bien au-delà de la simple coopération économique entre les deux pays. Analyse avec le père jésuite Elias Omondi Opongo, professeur à l’université d’Hekima au Kenya.2025-04-0904 min
InsurTech Business SeriesFSD Africa: Fostering Innovation in the African Insurance IndustryHello! Send us a quick text, comment or feedback. We would love to hear from youOn this episode, we sit with Elias Omondi from FSD Africa. He is one of the leading voices in insurance innovation in Africa.In our last episode featuring Elias, he was with the Insurance Regulator in Kenya where he pioneered the first-ever regulator-backed InsurTech Accelerator Lab in Africa. The Lab has since been absorbed by FSD Africa who has since replicated the Lab in other African markets like Ghana and Nigeria.Join our IBS community on LinkedIn...2022-05-1642 min
African Catholic Voices"We are leaving so many people behind", Jesuit priest, Elias Omondi Opongo on war, conflict resolution, and human sufferingSend us a textJesuit priest, conflict analyst, peace educator, and social justice exponent, Elias Omondi Opongo, addresses the root causes of conflict in the world. Drawing from years spent in the trenches and in the classroom educating young Africans on conflict resolution, transitional justice, and peace advocacy, he makes a strong case for dialogue, diplomacy, mediation, justice, and reconciliation in countries ravaged by wars and instability. He says that a lot of our people in Africa, for instance, are being left behind because of structural injustice, and poor governance among other factors. He gives us five...2022-03-1426 min
InsurTech Business SeriesHow the IRA in Kenya Builds an Ecosystem for Insurance & InsurtechHello! Send us a quick text, comment or feedback. We would love to hear from youWe cap the first year of IBS with a conversation with Elias Omondi who is the Innovation Lead at IRA of Kenya. He shared openly with us the focus of the regulator, how they are fostering innovation in the industry and why they are supporting insurtechs with Bima Regulatory Sandbox as well as Bima Lab.Join us at our anniversary event via LinkedIn Live- https://www.linkedin.com/events/insurtechbusinessseries1stanniv6783383876627759104/Follow our LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin...2021-04-0546 min
OxPeace Conference 2009: The Serious Study of PeaceNGO Peacebuilding in Complex Emergencies: the case of Eastern AfricaBreakout session on ‘Grassroots Peacebuilding – and linking it to national and international levels’, first talk: Fr Elias Omondi Opongo, Ph.D. candidate, Dept of Peace Studies, Bradford University. The end of the Cold War marked a new beginning for Non Governmental Organizations' (NGOs) engagement in peacebuilding and conflict transformation at the grassroots and middle level interventions. However, while the last two decades have seen a decrease in inter-state wars, intra-state conflicts escalated, subsequently provoking a gradual paradigm shift in responding to humanitarian crisis in conflict settings: from a relief only approach, to relief-development, and recently to a conflict intervention and peace...2021-01-1824 min
The Kroc Cast: Peace Studies ConversationsTeaching Peace in Active and Post-Conflict ZonesGeorge Lopez talks with three other scholar-practitioners about how to teach peace studies in areas where there is active conflict or where conflict has just ended. This episode’s guests include Kroc Institute Visiting Research Fellow Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Fr. Elias Omondi Opongo, Director of the Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations, and Fr. Matthew Pagan,Vice-Chancellor of the Catholic University of South Sudan.
2020-03-0243 min