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I am a PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa and also a part-time lecturer at UCT’s Political Studies Department. I hold a Graduate Research Associate position at the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa at UCT, and a Research Associate position at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (Foundation for Strategic Research), in France. I am also an alumna of Fudan University in China, and was a guest lecturer at Stellenbosch University, in South Africa. Additionally, I am member of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC) Research Network. My research interests include China-Africa relations, wider Asia-Africa relations, Asian geopolitics, African geopolitics, and Africa’s infrastructure development.
My PhD research explores how China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) can be leveraged to contribute to Africa’s developmental regional integration efforts by exploiting its strong focus on infrastructural development, especially transport infrastructure. I have experience working at think tanks and in the corporate sector. I was a research assistant at the Centre for Conflict Resolution, an independent non-governmental pan-African organisation. I have also worked as an Asia-Pacific political and country risk analyst for S-RM, a British risk and intelligence consultancy and provided consulting services for Africa-focused research intelligence companies.
I often writes articles for the Diplomatist an India-based foreign affairs magazine and have written thought pieces and discussion papers for the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University. In 2015, I participated in South Africa’s BRICS Academic Workshop, where I, with a group of other South African academics and researchers, explored how BRICS countries can play more of an active role in international peacekeeping. In addition, I also have provided insightful commentary on China-Africa relations for local news outlets and international media outlets.
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I study the impact of identity and social norms on decision-making, in contexts from political engagement and violent extremism to health and the environment.
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Rup teaches Macroeconomics and Economic Growth. His research interests are applied areas of economics, including COVID19 impact analysis. He has published 2 authored book and over 40 journal articles in internationally ranked journals. He has also worked with other regional and international organizations on various research projects and contributes to policy modeling.
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I am a professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa at MIT, where I direct MIT-Africa and the Global Diversity Lab. My research and teaching centers around the opportunities and challenges of diversity within and across countries for building healthy and resilient societies. At the Global Diversity Lab, we are focused on research concerning global public health, climate change, and efforts to promote human development and dignity.
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Anastasia Shesterinina is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow leading the £1.2m Civil War Paths project "Understanding Civil War from Pre- to Post-War Stages: A Comparative Approach," Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War and Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Politics at the University of Sheffield. After receiving her PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia, she was a Canada Social Science and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University's Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence. Her field-intensive research examines the internal dynamics of and international intervention in contemporary armed conflict, with a focus on violent mobilization, ex-combatant reintegration, and civilian protection norms and practices. Her book Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia published with Cornell University Press in 2021 received the 2022 APSA Charles Taylor Book Award. Her work has appeared in American Political Science Review, Journal of Peace Research, Perspectives on Politics, European Journal of International Relations, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and International Peacekeeping.
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I am a PhD candidate in Yale University's Political Science Department and a 2020-2021 United States Institute for Peace (USIP) Peace Scholar Fellow. I also work as a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Global Impact and a Senior Associate (non-resident) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
In 2015, I graduated with an MA in International Economics and African Studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS. My research is at the intersection of security, gender, and governance, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. I have conducted field work in Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, Uganda, and Ethiopia. My work has been published in International Security, Security Studies, Stability, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and African Studies Review.
I have previously worked as a research analyst for the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), the National Defense University, and the Institute for Defense Analyses. As a freelance journalist, I have been published by Newsweek, IRIN, and Foreign Affairs, among others. My first book, Women and the War on Boko Haram, was published in 2017 with Zed Publishers.
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Saghar Shahidi-Birjandian is a faculty member at University Canada West where she teaches courses on human rights and social justice. She is also the founder of Collaborative Social Change, a not-for-profit specializing in structural and institutional change for atrocities prevention. Her areas of focus in research and practice include decoloniality in transitional justice, evidence-based and contextualised problem analysis for transitional justice policy development and practice, and strengthening the capacity of transitional justice interventions to prevent recurrence of mass violence.
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Julie Norman is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at University College London, and an independent research consultant with the UN, EU, British Council, and international and national NGOs. Her work focuses on conflict, security, human rights, development, refugees, youth, and GBV, with an emphasis on the Middle East and central Africa.
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A political scientist by training focusing on comparative democracy and development as well as the politics of natural resources
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Maarten IJzerman is Dean of Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management and Professor of Cancer Health Services Research in The Netherlands. He also is Professor in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research in Australia.
He is a member of the supervisory board of the Rotterdam Global Health institute (RGHi), a non-executive board member in the non-profit sector and he has served on the Australian Medical Services Advisory Committee and chaired the Dutch pharmacy-economic guidelines committee. Maarten is an INSEAD alumnus.