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5/8/2008 Event Public Policy Making: The Case of Nation Building in South Africa Speaker(s) Vusi Gumede Description Seminar given by Distinguished Africanist Scholar Vusi Gumede. The seminar will be followed by a reception. Sponsors Institute for African Development, Department of Applied Economics and Management, the Division of Nutritional Sciences Location G08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM -to- 4:30PM   printable version  |  event reminder

5/1/2008 Event IAD Weekly Seminar: "Executive-Judicial Relations in New African Democracies." Presenter Peter VonDoepp, Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont Description Peter VonDoepp is Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont. A specialist in African politics, he has published numerous articles on democratization processes in Africa. He is also editor and contributor to The Fate of Africa’s Democratic Experiments: Elites and Institutions(Indiana 2005). He has obtained research grants from the National Science Foundation and Fulbright Hays Program. He served as a Southern Africa analyst for Freedom in the World Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM -to- 4:00PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

4/24/2008 Event IAD Weekly Seminar: "The Uneven Terrain of Struggles for Democracy: Party Politics, Citizenship, and Farm Workers in Zimbabwe." Presenter Blair Rutherford, Professor of Sociology, Carleton University Description Blair Rutherford is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM -to- 4:00PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

4/10/2008 Event IAD Weekly Seminar: "Emerging Legislatures in Emerging African Democracies." Presenter Joel Barkan, Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa Description Joel D. Barkan is Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. A specialist on politics and development policy in sub-Saharan Africa, Dr. Barkan served as the Regional Democracy and Governance Advisor for East and Southern Africa to the United States Agency for International Development from 1992 to 1994. He is currently Senior Consultant on Governance in the Public Sector Reform Unit of the Africa Region at the World Bank, and resident fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM -to- 4:00PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

4/3/2008 Event IAD Weekly Seminar: "Elections in Zimbabwe: 1980-2008." Presenter Norma Kriger, Consultant, Human Rights Watch Description Norma Kriger is a consultant to the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM -to- 4:00PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

3/27/2008 Event IAD Weekly Seminar: "Reinventing the Governance of Development Cooperation: The Case of Senegal." Presenter Ian Hopwood, Head of UNICEF, Senegal Description Ian Hopwood is the head of the United Nations children's agency UNICEF in Senegal Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM -to- 4:00PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

3/13/2008 Event IAD Weekly Seminar: "Sovereignty and Command in Africa." Presenter Pierre Englebert, Associate Professor of Politics, Pamona College Description Pierre Englebert, an associate professor of politics, joined the Pomona College faculty in 1998 and teaches courses in international relations, with an emphasis on comparative politics and Africa. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM -to- 4:00PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

3/6/2008 Event IAD Weekly Seminar: "Thugs and Political Parties in Nigeria." Presenter Nahomi Ichino, Professor of Government, Harvard University Description Nahomi Ichino (PhD, Stanford, 2006) is a professor of government at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include African politics, development, and comparative political institutions, with particular emphasis on political parties and electoral politics. She is currently engaged in research on intra-party politics and the development of political parties in Nigeria, electoral intimidation and violence, and regional/ethnic conflict in West Africa. She is a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and previously held a fellowship at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM -to- 4:00PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

2/28/2008 Event IAD Weekly Seminar: "Gender and Development Post-Conflict: Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325, The Liberia Case Study." Presenter Joana Foster, Senior Gender Advisor, UNMIL Description Joana Foster is a Senior Gender Advisor at the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM -to- 4:00PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

2/21/2008 Event IAD Weekly Seminar: "In Pursuit of Authority: The Rise of New Rights-Based Discourses in Africa." Presenter Aili Mari Tripp, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison Description Aili Mari Tripp is Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her teaching and research interests are in African politics, comparative politics, women and politics and gender studies in an international context. She is author of Women and Politics in Uganda (2000) and Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania (1997). She has a forthcoming book co-authored with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga and Alice Mungwa entitled Women in Movement: Transformations in African Political Landscapes (Cambridge University Press). Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM -to- 4:00PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

2/14/2008 Event IAD Weekly Seminar: "Narrowing the Legitimacy Gap: The Role of Turnovers in Africa's Emerging Democracies." Presenter Devra Moehler, Professor of Government, Cornell University Description Devra C. Moehler is Professor of Government at Cornell University and a 2006-7 Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM -to- 4:00PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

1/31/2008 Event IAD Weekly Seminar: "Illegal Peace? Examining the Legality of Power-Sharing with African Warlords and Rebels." Presenter Jeremy Levitt, Associate Professor of Law, Florida International University Description Professor Jeremy Levitt is an Associate Professor of Law at Florida International University College of Law and a former Special Assistant to the Managing Director for Global Human and Social Development at the The World Bank Group. During the summer of 2005, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Center for International Law at Cambridge University. Dr. Levitt is a public international lawyer, political scientist, and Africanist with expertise and publications in the law of the use of force, human rights law, international organizations, democratization, African politics, state dynamics and regional collective security. Professor Levitt has demonstrated a talent for teaching, passion for legal and multidisciplinary scholarship and strong commitment to public service. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM -to- 4:00PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

1/24/2008 Event IAD Weekly Seminar: "Promoting Centralization while Talking Decentralization: Policy and Practice under Ghana's Poverty Reduction Strategy." Presenter Chris Brown, Associate Professor of Political Science, Carleton University Description Chris Brown is Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa, in the field of comparative politics, with a specialization in the politics of southern Africa. He has worked for several years as a development planner in Botswana and on regional relations in southern Africa. He is currently working on a book on the institutionalization of democracy in Botswana, which is funded by a research grant from the SSHRC. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM -to- 4:00PM   printable version  |  event reminder

11/29/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Will China's Aid Help Africa Move Towards Achieving the MDGs? China-Africa Cooperation Policy" Description Currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Cornell University's Institute for African Development, Dr. Raj Bardouille is a former senior staff at the United Nations Secretariat in New York where she was a senior economist for a number of years dealing with African development issues. Dr. Bardouille also worked as an economist at the UN Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and taught for several years at various universities in the Caribbean and Africa. The major part of her professional life has been spent on analyzing African development issues. She has lived and traveled extensively in a number of African countries. As an IAD Research Fellow, she is currently doing research on engaging the African Diaspora more constructively in African development, including assessing the macro and micro level impact of remittances from the Diaspora on the African economies, households and communities. She has also published extensively on African development issues. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

11/8/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "China and Africa: From National Interest Perspective to a Multi-Faceted Explanation" Description Mamoudou Gazibo is associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal. He is the co-author of La politique comparée, fondements, enjeux et approches théoriques (Presses de l’Université de Montréal 2004) and the author of several articles on New Institutionalism, electoral management bodies, Conflicts and on Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa. His most recent book is Introduction à la politique africaine (Presses de l’Université de Montréal 2006). He has received a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for his current research project on China-Africa relations. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

11/1/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Chinese Security and Military Policy Towards Africa" Description David Shinn served for 37 years in the US Foreign Service with assignments in Lebanon, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania, Cameroon, Sudan and as ambassador to Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He is a specialist on East Africa and the Horn and has special interests in terrorism, conflict, Islamic fundamentalism and, in the past several years, China-Africa relations. He is currently engaged in a major research project on this topic that took him twice to China this year and to seven countries in Africa over a period of two months. He has a PhD in political science from George Washington University. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

10/18/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Can Chinese Aid Reduce Poverty in Africa?" Description Professor Brautigam teaches in the International Development Program, where she is an advisor for the concentrations in development policy, and in governance and democracy. She has also held faculty appointments at Columbia University in New York (1987-94), and Silpakorn University in Thailand (1978-79), and has also been a visiting fellow at the University of Liberia in Monrovia, the University of Mauritius, Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone, and the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. She has served as a consultant for the United Nations, the World Bank, and the U.S. Agency for International Development in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Egypt and various Sub-Saharan African countries. Professor Brautigam has been a recipient of a Fulbright Senior Regional Research Award for Africa, and a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Grant, and has also been awarded fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is the author of "Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution" (1997) and "Aid Dependence and Governance" (2000), and co-editor of Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries (in press), in addition to several dozen articles and book chapters on foreign aid, the political economy of development, and the politics of economic policy. Her research has been published in Comparative Politics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Journal of Developing Areas, Studies in Comparative International Development, Current History, Public Administration and Development, Africa Contemporary Record, The Journal of Modern African Studies, and African Affairs. She is currently working on two projects: a book about small states and globalization, with Mauritius as the central case, and the general topic of Chinese aid and African development. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

10/4/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Foreign Direct Investment, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Revenue Management in Africa's Petrostates" Description John R. Heilbrunn is an assistant professor in the Graduate Program, the International Political Economy of Resources at the Colorado School of Mines and a research fellow at the Centre d’Etudes d’Afrique Noire, the Institut d’Etudes politiques, the University of Bordeaux. Prior to joining the faculty at CSM, he was a Senior Public Sector Reform Specialist at the World Bank and a member of the core team working on anti-corruption and governance at the policymaking center of the Bank. Professor Heilbrunn has served as a consultant to a variety of multilateral and bilateral organizations on issues of governance and anti-corruption. His most recent work has been a series of commissioned papers on the political economy of revenue management in resource abundant African economies. He has an extensive publication track in professional journals and edited volumes. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

9/27/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "China's Grand Strategy for Africa" Description Daniel Volman is the director of the African Security Research Project in Washington, DC, and the author of numerous articles on U.S. military policy toward Africa and African security issues. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

9/20/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Africa's Silk Road" Description Harry Broadman is Economic Adviser for the Africa Region at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Previously at the Bank, he served as Lead Economist for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and as Senior Economist for China Operations. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1993, Dr. Broadman held a variety of senior positions in government, academia, and the private sector. These include serving in the U.S. White House on the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) as Chief of Staff and Senior Economist, where he managed the day-to-day operations of the CEA. He also served in the White House as Assistant United States Trade Representative (at the rank of Assistant Secretary), where he was in charge of negotiating key portions of the Uruguay Round, which led to the creation of the WTO and of the NAFTA, and where he also served on the White House Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Earlier, Dr. Broadman was Chief Economist of the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. He also served as a Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Broadman also served as a professor on the faculties of Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University. In the private sector, Dr. Broadman was as an Economic Consultant at the Rand Corporation and was Assistant Director at Resources for the Future, Inc. Dr. Broadman received his undergraduate education at Brown University, graduating magna cum laude, with a joint degree in economics and history, and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a doctorate in economics from the University of Michigan. Dr. Broadman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In his current role at the World Bank, Dr. Broadman is a key architect of the Bank's new corporate strategy in Africa, and of a new investment fund, the Africa Catalytic Growth Fund, that facilitates innovative investments on the sub-Saharan continent. In early 2007, the World Bank published his new book, Africa's Silk Road: China and India's New Economic Frontier. When he served as Lead Economist for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, he managed the Bank’s structural adjustment loan operations in the Russian Federation—prior to, during, and after that country’s economic crisis in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He also managed major loan and policy operations in the war-torn Balkans and in the Central Asia Republics. His book, From Disintegration to Reintegration: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in International Trade, was published by the World Bank in early 2006. In his first appointment at the Bank as Senior Economist for China Operations, Dr. Broadman led the Bank’s lending operations and analytical work in China on state-owned enterprise reform, WTO accession, competition policy, and corporate governance reform. Among numerous publications on the Chinese economy, he is the author of The Business(es) of the Chinese State, which was published as the lead article in the professional economics journal The World Economy. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

9/13/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "China/Zambia Investments: The Challenges and Economic Development" Description Muna Ndulo is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for African Development, Cornell University. He began his law career as Prosecutor in the Ministry of Legal Affairs in Zambia. His teaching career began at the University of Zambia where he served as the first Dean of the School of Law and as the Director of the Law Practice Institute and Chairman of the Law Development Commission. In 1986 he joined the United Nations and served as Legal Officer in the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade in Vienna Austria for 10 years. Dr. Ndulo served the United Nations in various tasks in relation to institution building in post conflict situations and election monitoring notable as Chief Political Adviser to the United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa 1992-1994 (UNOMSA); Legal Adviser to the United Nations Mission in East Timor 1999 (UNAMET); Legal Adviser to the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, 2000 (UNAMIK) and Legal Expert to the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan, 2003 (UNAMA). He has taught law at various institutions including the University of Bayreauth, Germany; University of Graz, Austria; and International Development Law Institute, Rome Italy. He serves on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch; Inter-African Network for Human Rights (AFRONET) and Gender Links. Dr. Ndulo is a graduate of the University of Zambia (LL.B): Harvard University LL.M) and Trinity College, Oxford University (D. Phil). He is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Zambia. He served as Editor in Chief of the Zambia Law Journal and of the Zambia Law Reports. He has published 10 books and more than 80 articles in law journals and other academic journals. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

9/6/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Africa and China: The Evolving Strategic Partnership" Description Dr. Assis Malaquias is Associate Dean of International and Intercultural Studies and Associate Professor of Government at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. He is also an Extraordinary Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Prof. Malaquias’ areas of specialization include International Politics, International Political Economy, Global Security, and African Politics. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and a Masters degree in Economics from Dalhousie University, Canada. Professor Malaquias has written extensively on issues pertaining to security and governance in Africa. Prof. Malaquias is regularly invited to speak at international events organized by major institutions including the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, International Peace Academy, Portuguese Institute of International Relations, and the Nordic Africa Institute, among others. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

8/30/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Distancing from Dictators: China's Shifting Policy Towards Rogue Regimes" Description Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt is an International Affairs Fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations in New York. She is an expert in human rights and rule of law, specializing in China and sub-Saharan Africa. Her work focuses on researching the human rights implications of China’s deepening engagement with the African continent. Ms. Kleine-Ahlbrandt has worked as Programme Manager and Officer-in-Charge, Asia Division, in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2002-2006); UN National Human Rights Institutions Officer (2000-2001); Human Rights Officer assigned to UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights in Nigeria, Rwanda and the Islamic Republic of Iran (1997-2000); Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (seconded by Dept. of State, 1996); UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda (1994-1995); and Directorate of Legal Affairs, Council of Europe (1992-1993). She is fluent in French and familiar with Chinese. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

8/23/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Africa in China's Global Strategy" Description Dr. Marcel Kitissou, a historian and political scientist, is a member of the public policy faculty at the Union Institute and University (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Visiting Fellow with the Institute for African Development at Cornell University. He was formerly Senior Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University. He has also been the Faculty Director of the Global Humanitarian Action Program and the Summer Institute on International Development of the same institution and Executive Director of the Washington DC-based Africa Faith and Justice Network. Earlier, he founded and directed the PEACE Institute of the State University of New York at Oswego, directed a regional school of journalism in Lomé, and was Associate Director of the National School of Public Administration of Togo. He has published widely on security issues and the politics of water in Africa. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

5/3/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "The Dynamics of Genocide in Rwanda" Description Scott Straus is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Straus is the author of two books on Rwanda: The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda (Cornell University Press, 2006), and, with Robert Lyons, Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide (MIT/Zone Books, 2006). Straus also co-authored, with David Leonard, Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures (Lynne Rienner, 2003) and he translated Jean-Pierre Chrétien’s The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History (MIT/Zone, 2003). Straus has additionally published articles on Darfur, Rwanda, the comparison of genocides, and genocide prevention in Foreign Affairs, Genocide Studies and Prevention, the Journal of Genocide Research, and the Wisconsin International Law Journal as well as review essays in the African Studies Review. Prior to starting in academia, Straus was a freelance journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1996, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

4/26/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Entertaining Peace: Can Entertainment Radio Facilitate Peace-Building in Africa?" Description Elizabeth Levy Paluck will receive her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Yale University in May 2007. For the past three years, she has conducted field research on the impact of media interventions aimed at peacebuilding in Rwanda, DR Congo, and Burundi. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

4/19/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Law and Economic Analysis of the Nile Water Agreement of 1929" Description Joseph Kieyah joined Pennsylvania State University in 2005 as an Assistant Professor of African Studies in the Department of African and African American Studies. He graduated in 2003 from the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. in Economics. In 2004, he received a JD degree with a focus on International Law from the University of Iowa, College of Law. Professor Kieyah’s interdisciplinary research is on law and economics of Africa’s development with a focus on property rights. Specifically, his current research agenda entails three areas: property rights in land, property rights in water, and firms’ property rights. He has published articles in the American Law and Economic Review, the Journal of Comparative Economics, and Penn State Environmental Law Review. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

4/12/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "The 2006 Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: What Divided the Country?" Description Professor Herbert Weiss has been a student of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1959. He is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at City University of New York, Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, CUNY. His most recent trip to the DRC was in October/November 2006 as an election observer under the auspices of the Carter Center. The main focus of his research has been nationalism and independence struggles, mass mobilization, democratization, elections, and militia demobilization. He has been a consultant with the World Bank, the UN, the U.S. government, and various U.S. and international NGOs. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

4/5/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "State Support for Insurgency and International Conflict" Description Navin Bapat, Ph.D., Rice, 2004; Assistant Professor of Political Science at Penssylvania State University. Research interests include state conflict with non-state actors, international conflict, the spread of transnational insurgency, and the study of terrorism. His other research interests include the study of the use and effectiveness of economic sanctions. He is currently working on several projects related to state conflict with transnational insurgent groups and collecting data on the threat and implementation of sanctions. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

3/29/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Invisible Men: Non-Combatant Males in the Reconstruction of Post-Civil War Liberia" Description Mary Moran is a professor of Anthropology and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University. Her graduate degrees are from Brown (M.A. '81 and Ph.D. '85) and she has been at Colgate since 1985. Professor Moran did ethnographic field work in southeastern Liberia in 1982-83, interviews with Liberian expatriates in the US in the 90s, and returned to Liberia for the first time in over 20 years this past summer (May-June 2006). Her major publications are: Civilized Women: Gender and Prestige in Southeastern Liberia (Cornell, 1990), Liberia: The Violence of Democracy (U. of Penn, 2006), and articles in journals and edited books. She was Chair of the Association for Feminist Anthropology, a member of the American Anthropological Association Executive Board, Monographs Editor for the American Ethnological Society, and a book series editor for Lynne Rienner Publishers for a series called Women and Change in the Developing World. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

3/15/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "U.S. Africa Policy and African Conflict" Description Raymond W. Copson is on the part-time faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He is also editor of the Online Africa Policy Forum of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In June 2007, Zed Books plans to publish a book by Copson on Bush Administration Africa policy as part of the African Arguments series sponsored by the Royal African Society. For many years, Copson was a specialist in African affairs at the Congressional Research Service. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

3/8/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Election 2007 in Senegal: Peaceful Transition or Democracy Challenged?" Description Nancy Walker is President of AfricaNet, an independent, international institute, focusing on human security and security sector governance in Africa. She works with the Carter Center as an election observer, the UN Office for West Africa, the UN Office of the Special Advisor on Africa, the International Peace Academy, Femmes Africa Solidarité, among others. Dr. Walker served as the founding Director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, offering quality programs for senior civilian, military, and civil society officials from Africa, Europe, and the United States, on subjects including civil-military relations, security strategy, peace operations, health and security, disaster management, and conflict prevention. Previous government assignments include Director of the Office of African Affairs within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, United Nations Branch Chief in the Office of Peacekeeping Policy in the Pentagon, and German and NATO Analyst at the USIA’s Office of Research. She also worked as political producer for German television, policy consultant to NGO’s, public opinion survey researcher, and defense analyst for an investment bank. Dr. Walker holds an A.B. from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and D.Phil. from Oxford University, where she was a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Fellow. She worked in Germany as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow. Memberships include: Council on Foreign Relations, Women’s Foreign Policy Group, among others. Dr. Walker speaks fluent French and German, and conversational Spanish. Nancy Walker serves on the International Advisory Board of the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces, the Board of Directors of the U.S. Committee for the United Nations Development Program, and the Board of the Mohican Hills Citizens Association. She received the Meritorious Civilian Service Award from the Pentagon and the Order of the Lion from the Republic of Senegal. Nancy Walker is married and has a daughter (15) and a son (14). Sponsors Institute for African Development and Peace Studies Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

3/1/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "The Security Council and African Conflicts" Description Musifiky Mwanasali is a Political Affairs Officer at the UN Secretariat in New York. He previously served as Regional Adviser for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Central Africa, and as a political analyst in the Conflict Management Centre at the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dr Mwanasali has also held teaching and research posts in academia and in think-tanks – including the New York-based International Peace Academy – in both Africa and the US. He has published extensively on African security issues. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

2/22/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "African Conflicts, Border Crossings, and the Idea of Co-Development" Description Abdoulaye Kane is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Florida. He got his Ph.D. from the Amsterdam’s School for Social Science Research (University of Amsterdam) in Sociology. His research interests cover a variety of themes including: African Transnational Migration, African Diasporas in the West, Gender and Migration, Migration and Development, Transnational Religious Organization, etc. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on African migrants’ social networks and their role in promoting local development in sending areas. He is finishing a manuscript titled: Keeping Home in Mind: Haal Pulaar Migrants in US and Europe and their Relation to Home. He analyses in this book the social, economic, and cultural transformations in the Senegal River Valley villages due to the active engagement of Haal Pulaar migrants as individuals and associations in improving the living conditions of those they left behind. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

2/15/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Rethinking the Global: AIDS Policies, Dispossession, and State Legitimacy in Nigeria" Description Kristin Peterson is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University. Her current work focuses on AIDS policy making, clinical trials, and pharmaceutical geopolitics in Nigeria. This research ethnographically explores health and medicine as global formations that are linked to emergent forms of militarism, development, and economic extraction in West Africa. Dr. Peterson received her Ph.D. in 2004 from Rice University and is currently in the process of writing a book manuscript tentatively entitled “Imperatives of Capital: Dispossession, Pharmaceuticals, and AIDS Policy-Making in Nigeria.” Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

2/1/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Inhumanitarian Consequences of Humanitarian Intervention in Africa: Rwanda in 1994" Description Andrew Mwenda is currently a John Knight Fellow at Stanford University. Before coming to Stanford, he was the Political Editor of the Daily Monitor newspaper in Kampala, Uganda. He also hosted a prime time current affairs daily radio talk-show called Andrew Mwenda Live on the affiliate radio station, KFM. Mr. Mwenda studied journalism at Makerere University and graduated with an honors B.A. 1996 and began work as a reporter with the Monitor. He won the British Chevening Scholarship in 1999 and went to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, where he completed his MSc in Development Studies in 2000. He has worked as a reporter, senior reporter, and as an assistant editor for investigations. In 2002, he became general manager of Monitor FM, now called KFM, before returning to journalism as a political editor. Mr. Mwenda has worked as a consultant for international organisations like the World Bank, Transparency International, and UNCTAD. Although a full-time journalist, he has maintained an interest in the academic world and has written and published articles in journals like African Affairs, Review of African Political Economy, and Journal of Modern African Studies, and contributed chapters to books. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

1/25/2007 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa and Reconstruction of States" Description Muna Ndulo is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for African Development, Cornell University. He began his law career as Prosecutor in the Ministry of Legal Affairs in Zambia. His teaching career began at the University of Zambia where he served as the first Dean of the School of Law and as the Director of the Law Practice Institute and Chairman of the Law Development Commission. In 1986 he joined the United Nations and served as Legal Officer in the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade in Vienna Austria for 10 years. Dr. Ndulo served the United Nations in various tasks in relation to institution building in post conflict situations and election monitoring notable as Chief Political Adviser to the United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa 1992-1994 (UNOMSA); Legal Adviser to the United Nations Mission in East Timor 1999 (UNAMET); Legal Adviser to the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, 2000 (UNAMIK) and Legal Expert to the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan, 2003 (UNAMA). He has taught law at various institutions including the University of Bayreauth, Germany; University of Graz, Austria; and International Development Law Institute, Rome Italy. He serves on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch; Inter-African Network for Human Rights (AFRONET) and Gender Links. Dr. Ndulo is a graduate of the University of Zambia (LL.B): Harvard University LL.M) and Trinity College, Oxford University (D. Phil). He is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Zambia. He served as Editor in Chief of the Zambia Law Journal and of the Zambia Law Reports. He has published 10 books and more than 80 articles in law journals and other academic journals. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

11/30/2006 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Crony Capitalists or Champions of Competition? Africa's Business Class and its Contribution to Development" Description Antoinette Handley is Assistant Professor in the department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include policy making and economic reform in developing countries, and the political economies of Africa (especially Southern and South Africa) and Latin America. She is currently completing a manuscript that looks at the contribution of indigenous business communities to economic policymaking in four African countries. South African born, she obtained her M.Phil in International Relations (1995) from the University of Oxford and her PhD in Political Science from Princeton University (2003). She is the recipient of numerous scholarships and research grants including the Rhodes (1993) and Fulbright (1998, 1999). Professionally, Dr. Handley has extensive experience in the research NGO environment. She served (from 1995 to 1998) as the Director of Studies at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. She remains a Research Associate of the SAIIA. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

11/16/2006 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "African Brain Drain and Development: The Problems and Solutions" Description Mary M. Kritz is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University. She has written extensively on global migration trends including international student mobility, international migration governance, and migration and development. She also does research on the impacts of immigration in the United States. She recently presented a paper on “Globalization and Internationalization of Tertiary Education” at the United Nations International Symposium on International Migration and Development held in Turin, Italy, 18-30 June 2006. The Symposium was one of the preparatory activities for the United Nations High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development that will be held on 14-15 September 2006 at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Her background paper for the Symposium examined the trend toward cross-border delivery of higher education services and the implications of that trend for international student mobility. The paper is available online at http://www.un.org/esa/population/hldmigration/TURIN/Symposium_Turin_files/P02_SYMP_Kritz3.pdf. Other papers presented at the United Nations Symposium in Turin are available at http://www.un.org/esa/population/hldmigration/TURIN/Symposium_Turin.html. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

11/9/2006 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Corruption: Symptom or Underlying Cause of Poverty in Africa?" Description John Uniack Davis has been an employee of CARE International, one of the world’s premier humanitarian and development organizations, since 2002. He is currently CARE’s senior technical advisor for democracy and governance and deputy regional director for southern and West Africa, covering 17 countries from Madagascar to Sierra Leone. Prior to that he was CARE’s assistant country director for Mali, managing a $10.7 million annual development assistance program. He also previously served as the development assistance coordinator for the U.S. Government in Niger and won a State Department Superior Honor Award for his efforts to find resources for the world’s poorest Muslim country in the months before and immediately following 9/11. John has done consulting for a variety of international organizations, including the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Nations Capital Development Fund, the Netherlands Development Organization (SNV), and several non-governmental organizations. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Michigan State University and has written a number of scholarly and popular articles on subjects as diverse as democratization, aid policy, HIV/AIDS prevention and the economics of farm worker safety. His international career began when he served for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Burkina Faso in the mid-1980s. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

11/2/2006 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Africa's Healthcare Delivery Systems: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities for Transformation" Description Dr. Chinua Akukwe is the Chair of the Technical Advisory Board of the Africa Center for Health and Human Security, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC. The Africa Center is focusing on deep partnerships with Africa governments, the private sector and civil society on viable options for better health and development outcomes in the continent. Dr. Akukwe is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate of the George Washington University Medical Center and holds faculty appointments in the Department of Global Health and the Department of Preventive and Community Health. Dr. Akukwe is a former Vice Chairman of the National Council for International Health (NCIH) now known as the Global Health Council, Washington, DC. He served for five years as a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Public Health. He is a former member of the International Human Rights Committee of the American Public Health Association. He is a member of the Board of the Directors of the Constituency for Africa, Washington, DC. Dr. Akukwe is also the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the new Africa Center for Epidemiology and Diseases Economic Research, Abuja, Nigeria. Dr. Akukwe is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London and a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. Dr. Akukwe is also honored in the Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World for his contributions to public health. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

10/26/2006 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Questioning the Notion of 'African Corruption'" Description Michael Johnston (Ph.D. Yale University, 1977) is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science and Division Director for the Social Sciences at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York. For the 2000-2001 academic year he was Director of Colgate’s Center for Ethics and World Societies, and for the period 2002-2003 was a Colgate Presidential Scholar. During the 2002-2003 academic year he was a Member of the School of Social Sciences, and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He has studied political and administrative corruption since 1975, and from 1985 through 1996 was a founding Co-Editor of the journal Corruption and Reform. His most recent book is Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2005), which will soon appear in Chinese-, Arabic-, and Romanian-language editions. Other books include Civil Society and Corruption: Mobilizing for Reform (edited volume, 2005); Political Corruption: Concepts and Contexts (co-edited with the late Arnold J. Heidenheimer, 2002); Political Corruption: A Handbook (co-editors Arnold J. Heidenheimer and Victor LeVine, 1988); and Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Government (co-editor Jerome B. McKinney, 1986); and Political Corruption and Public Policy in America (1982). He has been a consultant to many international organizations and development agencies, including The World Bank, The Asia Foundation, the New York State Commission on Governmental Integrity; USAID, and the United Nations, and is currently at work on a corruption assessment project for USAID. In July, 2006, he presented a series of workshops in Ghana on corruption control, under the auspices of the US Department of State. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

10/19/2006 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Corruption and Fear as Property" Description Joel M. Ngugi joined the faculty of the University of Washington School of Law in 2004. His research interests are at the intersection of three themes: (a) the role of law in fostering (or impeding) economic development; (b) the fluidities of some of the core concepts or categories that organize our way of thinking about the regulation of markets, and the extent to which the State should intervene in the economic affairs; and (c) the ways in which the law comprehends these fluidities, the heterogeneity of the market resulting from an exchange of entitlements defined by these fluid concepts, and the implications of such legal comprehension and heterogeneity in terms of wealth allocation. His teaching interests include Public and Private International Law (including courses in Law & Development, International Business Transactions, Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Rights, International Economic Law); Corporations and other Business Organizations; Contracts law and Property law. Prior to joining the faculty, Prof. Ngugi was practicing law with the Boston law firm of Foley Hoag, LLP as a corporate and international litigation associate. He has practiced law in Kenya with the law firm of Kariuki Muigua & Company Advocates. Prof. Ngugi has also previously worked with the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in Pristina, Kosovo and done some research work for the Global Coalition for Africa/World Bank, Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at Harvard University and at the Global Trade Watch Division of the Public Citizens, Inc. in Washington, DC. He has also taught High School in Kenya. Prof. Ngugi received his Doctor of Juridical Sciences (S.J.D.) and LL.M from Harvard Law School. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the University of Nairobi. At Harvard Law School, he was one of two recipients of the John Gallup Laylin Prize in International Law at the Harvard University commencement ceremony, 2002. During his graduate legal studies at Harvard, he received many fellowships and grants. Among these were the Clark Byse Fellowship (for academic distinction among graduate students) and the European Law Research Center Seminar Fellowship. He was also awarded dissertation fellowship grants from the Institute for the Study of World Politics, Washington, DC and the MacArthur–Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

10/12/2006 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Brain Drain, Academic Staff Retention, and Higher Education in Africa: Analysis of the Capacity of Universities to Build Capacity" Description Wisdom J. Tettey is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His Research Interests are in the areas of mass media and democratic change in Africa; ICTs, state capacity building, and civil society; as well as identity, citizenship and the African diaspora. He has published on these issues in various scholarly journals and books. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder

10/5/2006 Event IAD Weekly Seminar Series: "Women Migrant Workers, Citizenship, and Human Rights" Description Judith Van Allen is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for African Development and a long-time activist-scholar. She has been writing about African women for 30 years, starting with “Sitting on a Man,” her article about the 1929 Igbo Women’s War against the British. In the late 1980s she lived in Botswana, doing liberation support work and studying the emerging Botswana women’s movement. She is currently completing a book extending the analysis in her article, “Bad Future Things: Gender, Capitalism and the State in Botswana.” In addition to numerous articles on African women and politics, she has written Marxist-feminist analyses of the feminization of poverty and of reproductive rights in the U.S., and of capitalism and gendered “development” in Africa. She has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, California State University at San Francisco, the East Bay Socialist School, and Ithaca College. Her current research interests include Christianity and cultural erasure in Africa, and a comparison of anti-racism work by Communist Parties in South Africa and the United States. Sponsors Institute for African Development Location G-08 Uris Hall Times 2:30PM Website Website Available   printable version  |  event reminder