UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER
"War and Peace in Africa ", 01/03

10th Annual African Studies Consortium Workshop

 

“War and Peace in Contemporary Africa”

Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, Swarthmore College

and the University of Pennsylvania

Friday, January 31, 2003

Terrace Room, Logan Hall, The University of Pennsylvania Campus

(located near 36th and Spruce Streets)

 

     8:30am – 9:00am

 Registration   
9am - 9:10am
 Opening Remarks
Lee CassanelliAfrican Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania


9:10am – 10:20am

 Alternative Contexts of Conflict
Chair and Discussant: Daniel Jeaneret, Eastern Mennonite University
“A Festering Sore on an Otherwise Healthy Administrative Body: Konkomba Political Agency and British Policy, 1930-1951”
Benjamin Talton, Hofstra University
“Ecology and the Social Construction of Space and Conflict”
Hussein A. Mahmoud and Eric T. Silver, University of Kentucky
“Metaphysics, Sustainable Peace, and the War on AIDS in Rural Cote d'Ivoire”
Josh Strozeski, Arcadia University
10:20-10:30

Coffee Break

  
10:30am – 11:20am
 Challenges in Central Africa
Chair and Discussant: Paul Kaiser, University of Pennsylvania
“The Network Wars of the Congo”
Tatiana Carayannis, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
“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
Chair and Discussant: Lee Cassanelli, University of Pennsylvania
 
“Nation-Building Amidst Cycles of War and Peace: The Case of Eritrea”
Tomas Mebrahtu, University of Pennsylvania
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

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
3:30pm - 5:30pm
 Challenges in West Africa
Chair and Discussant, Al Hassan Conteh, University of Pennsylvania
“Liberia’s Civil War: Nigeria, ECOMOG, and Regional Security in West Africa”
Adekeye Adebajo, International Peace Academy
“Sierra Leone and UNAMSIL’s Drawdown: Prospects for the Transition”
Ambassador John Hirsch, International Peace Academy
“Towards a Theory of Peace Agreement Implementation: The Case of Liberia”
Dorina Bekoe, International Peace Academy
“A Troubled Past, An Uncertain Future: Radical Islamism and the Prospects for Peace in Nigeria” 
Josh Arinze, Georgetown University
 "Building Peace through Accountablity in Sierra Leon: The Special Court and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission" 
Abdul Rahman Lamin, Howard University


Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar

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