8:30am – 9:00am |
Registration |
9am - 9:10am |
Opening Remarks |
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Lee CassanelliAfrican Studies
Center, University of Pennsylvania |
9:10am – 10:20am |
Alternative Contexts of
Conflict |
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Chair and Discussant: Daniel
Jeaneret, Eastern Mennonite
University |
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“A Festering
Sore on an Otherwise Healthy
Administrative Body: Konkomba
Political Agency and British
Policy, 1930-1951”
Benjamin Talton, Hofstra
University |
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“Ecology
and the Social Construction
of Space and Conflict”
Hussein A. Mahmoud and Eric
T. Silver, University of
Kentucky |
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Sustainable Peace, and
the War on AIDS in Rural
Cote d'Ivoire”
Josh Strozeski, Arcadia
University
|
10:20-10:30 Coffee
Break |
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10:30am –
11:20am |
Challenges
in Central Africa |
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Chair and
Discussant: Paul Kaiser,
University of Pennsylvania |
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“The Network
Wars of the Congo”
Tatiana Carayannis, The
Graduate Center of The City
University of New York |
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“Refugees
and the Spread of Conflict:
Contrasting Cases in Central
Africa”
Beth Elise Whitaker, University
of North Carolina at Charlotte |
11:20am – 12:30pm |
The Aftermath of the Ethiopian-Eritrean
War: Perspectives from the
Eritrean Diaspora |
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Chair and
Discussant: Lee Cassanelli,
University of Pennsylvania |
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“Nation-Building
Amidst Cycles of War and
Peace: The Case of Eritrea”
Tomas Mebrahtu, University
of Pennsylvania |
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The Impact
of the Ethiopian-Eritrean
War on Eritrean-American
Children: Short Film and
Discussion
Filmon Mebrahtu, Reel Voices |
12:30pm - 1:45pm
Lunch Break |
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Film by Filmon
Mebrahtu to be previewed
in Terrace Room during lunch
break. |
1:45pm
- 2:45pm |
Keynote Address:
“Africa in the War on Terrorism”
Harvey Glickman, Haverford
College |
2:45pm - 3:15pm Coffee
Break |
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3:30pm - 5:30pm |
Challenges in West Africa |
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Chair and
Discussant, Al Hassan Conteh,
University of Pennsylvania |
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“Liberia's
Civil War: Nigeria, ECOMOG,
and Regional Security in
West Africa”
Adekeye Adebajo, International
Peace Academy |
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“Sierra
Leone and UNAMSIL's Drawdown:
Prospects for the Transition”
Ambassador John Hirsch,
International Peace Academy |
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“Towards
a Theory of Peace Agreement
Implementation: The Case
of Liberia”
Dorina Bekoe, International
Peace Academy |
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“A Troubled
Past, An Uncertain Future:
Radical Islamism and the
Prospects for Peace in Nigeria”
Josh Arinze, Georgetown
University |
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"Building
Peace through Accountablity
in Sierra Leon: The Special
Court and the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission"
Abdul Rahman Lamin,
Howard University |