The Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) advances U.S. national security by breaking cycles of violent conflict and mitigating crises in priority countries. We engage in conflict prevention, crisis response and stabilization, aiming to address the underlying causes of destabilizing violence.
Secretary Clinton talks about CSO’s work countering the Lord’s Resistance Army and Joseph Kony in Central Africa. Text>>
On November 28, 2011, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country that has suffered tremendous instability and violence in the last two decades, held its first elections completely organized by the Congolese government since the end of the Mobutu era. This represented both a milestone and a challenge for the country... More>>
