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Dr. Jared O. Bell is a post-conflict development expert with extensive experience in designing and managing international human rights, democratization, and rule of law and justice sector programs. A prolific writer, Dr. Bell has published numerous articles on human rights, transitional justice, reconciliation and peace building, and is the author of the book “Frozen Justice: Lessons from Bosnia Herzegovina's Failed Transitional Justice Strategy” published with Vernon Press in 2018.
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Idil is a postdoctoral fellow at International Water Management Institute South Africa, coordinating national and regional policy dialogues and technical advisories in 12 countries in East and Southern Africa to improve their enabling environment for climate-resilient agricultural transformation and trade. Idil contributes to the CGIAR initiatives Ukama Ustawi–Diversification for Resilient Agrifood Systems in East and Southern Africa, and Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA).
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OLUSEGUN O OLADEINDE, PhD (Rhodes University, South Africa).
I am Lecturer/Researcher at Bells University of Technology, Ota, Nigeria. My research interest focuses on Sociology of Work and Development. More specifically, my research work is on Comparative Political Economy of Public /Social Policy.
Fellowships and Awards
2019 Research Laureate: CODESRIA Higher Education Leadership Institute (HEPI) Accra, Ghana, 19th -30th June 2019.
2018 German Academic Exchange Services (the DAAD) Award: International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), University of Kassel, Germany, 1st OCT-31ST DEC 2018.
Exceed/DIE Conference Laureate: “Rethinking Development Cooperation”, a joint conference of Exceed and DIE, BONN, Germany, 18th – 19th Sept 2018.
2018 Research Laureate: CODESRIA Democratic Governance Institute, Arusha, Tanzania, 18th -29th June 2018.
• Visiting Research Fellow: Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, June -Dec. 2016.
• Research Fellowship on Contemporary Political Economy Analysis; Sponsored by Partnership for Social and Governance Research (PASGR), Nairobi, Kenya, and Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK: October 2015.
• Volkswagen Stiffung Fellowship: Herrenhausen Conference “Re-Thinking Social Inequality”, Hannover, Germany, May 2014
• Academic Visit: Center for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC) University of Leeds, April 2012
• XV International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA) World Congress, Sydney Australia, 2009
• CODESRIA Research Methodology Laureate, University of Ibadan, 2008
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Governments are responsible for two critical issues here - countering of international organized crime and protecting societies most vunerable members, especially children and young persons. Some goverñments and organizations provide excellent examples of responsible action already underway.
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I am a PhD candidate at the Paris School of Economics and a researcher at the World Inequality Lab. I work on inequality in ex-colonies and developing countries, namely on land inequality in Africa.
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I am a law and policy specialist with experience working in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Eastern, Western and Southern Africa. My expertise lies in Law, governance and development. I possess a Bachelors, Masters and a Doctoral degree in law and various development certificates. My research focus is on the role of law in development processes within Africa. My expertise lies in Law, governance and development. My interest is in employing legal doctrines, principles, tools and practices to address everyday development challenges facing people in the global South, specifically in Africa. I engage the study of the rule of law in inclusive development through all its aspects: socioeconomic, development, human development and political development. Currently I am working on issues of promotion of socio-economic and development rights; displacement; and legal/economic empowerment in transition/fragile states.
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Research Uptake and Communications Manager for the International Centre for Tax and Development, based at the Institute of Development Studies.
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Professor and Holder of the South African Research Chair in Social Policy, based at the College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.
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Dr Hibist Kassa is an expert on feminist political economy who completed her doctorate in the University of Johannesburg in 2019. Hibist is a Research Associate at the Centre for African Studies and Chair in Land and Democracy in South Africa at the University of Cape Town. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of Witwatersrand. She has also been an Executive Committee member of Development Alternatives with Women in a New Era (DAWN). She is currently Policy Interface Fellow at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
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Joe Strong is a PhD student in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. His current research explores the relationship between men, masculinities and emergency contraception and abortion trajectories in Ghana. Further research areas include sexual and reproductive health among adolescents, women’s empowerment, and data collection methodologies. His most recent publication was a scoping review on puberty and menstruation knowledge among young adolescents in LMICs.