On 19 September 2012, Jason Stearns, Director of the RVI Usalama Project, which documents armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), gave evidence before the Congressional Foreign Affairs Sub-committee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights in Washington, DC. Alongside Ntambo Nkulu Ntanda, Bishop of the United Methodist Church of North Katanga, and Mark Schneider, senior vice-president of the International Crisis Group, he spoke on the role of Rwanda in the current DRC insurgency.