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Sarah Maddison's picture
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Sarah Maddison is Professor of Politics in the School of Social and Political Sciences, and Director of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne. Sarah is particularly interested in work that helps reconceptualise political relationships between First Nations and the Australian settler state, including critical examinations of a range of relevant public policies. Sarah has published widely in international journals and is the author or editor of nine books including, most recently, The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can’t solve black problems. Her other books in the field include The Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation (2016), Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation (2015), Beyond White Guilt (2011), Unsettling the Settler State (2011), and Black Politics (2009). Sarah has led numerous research projects and was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow for 2011-14, undertaking a project that examined reconciliation in Australia, South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Guatemala.
Jared O Bell's picture
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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.
Brian Polkinghorn's picture
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I am a conflict intervention practitioner of over 30 years and a professor of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution for the last 25+ years.
TK Pooe's picture
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Before joining academia on a full-time basis, he worked as a Policy research consultant at the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and researcher for Integrated Development Planning Unit at the Sedibeng District Municipality (South African local government). During this time, he worked on various socio-economic and political analysis projects with the principle aim of understanding how and why the local government in South Africa is unable to deliver economic development dividends like employment, effective spatial planning and efficient institutional processes and policies.
Brittany Foutz's picture
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Dr. Brittany Foutz is a Faculty member of the Honors College at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Foutz is the Co-Director of Salisbury Regional Centre of Expertise, a location acknowledged by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and United Nations University. This United Nations location focuses on conflict prevention and creative problem-solving. Dr. Foutz has been elected to be on the United Nations Americas Governance Committee and United Nations Americas Strategic Planning Support Committee, and Leader of the United Nations Americas Task Force on Education.
Shirin Rai's picture
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Professor in the department of Politics and International Studies and the Director of Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID). She has written extensively on issues of gender, governance and development - specifically, she works on political institutions and on unpaid care work and the consequences of not recognising its contribution to the economy and society. She is the author of Gender Politics of Development (2008) and Performing Representation:women in the Indian Parliament (with Carole Spary, 2019) and the editor of many books including New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy. She is on the editorial board of the journal Gender and Development. She has worked with UNDP and UNWomen. Currently she is writing a book on Depletion: the human cost of care.
Nick Vaughan-Williams's picture
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Nick Vaughan-Williams is Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick, UK. He holds degrees in Modern History and International Relations from the University of Oxford (BA and MA), the University of Warwick (MA), and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (PhD). A former recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Politics and International Studies, his programme of research focuses on the international politics of borders, migration, and security. Supported by grants from the British Academy, ESRC, and Leverhulme Trust, his work investigates the changing nature and location of attempts to govern human mobility - particularly in the contemporary European context - and what this tells us about the societies in which we live. Research findings have been presented to the EU Commission, Frontex, the Maltese Presidency, the UK Cabinet Office, and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office. His latest books are 'Vernacular Border Security: Citizens' Narratives of Europe's "Migration Crisis"' (Oxford University Press, 2021) and 'Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe's "Migrant Crisis"' (with Vicki Squire, Nina Perkowski, and Dallal Stevens) (Manchester University Press, 2021). Previous books include 'Europe's Border Crisis' (Oxford University Press, 2015, 2017), 'Everyday Security Threats' (with Daniel Stevens) (Manchester University Press, 2016, 2018) and 'Border Politics' (Edinburgh University Press, 2009, 2012) (Gold Winner of the Association for Borderlands Studies Book Award). He is also co-author of the leading textbook, now in its Third Edition, 'Critical Security Studies' (with Columba Peoples) (Routledge, 2010, 2015, 2021) and co-editor of the highly-acclaimed Interventions book series (with Jenny Edkins), which in 10 years has published more than 130 books.
Amit Kumar Choubey's picture
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Amit Choubey a Serial Social Entrepreneur founded organizations named Sanmat, FDS Pvt Ltd, Banka Silk Pvt Ltd, Devlabs Pvt Ltd , Bihar Social Entrepreneurs Association & Bihar School of Idea & Innovation. M.AGovernance and Development with IDS-Sussex, UK & LLB from BRABU, India and MPA LKY School of Public Policy, NUS, Singapore.British Council featured him among their best alumnae of last decade. In more than decade of experience, Amit have worked in India , Nepal, UK with Global think tanks like GSDRC, UK, government’s departments, INGOs in strategising & implementing development programs.
Hong Quan Nguyen's picture
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I am currently associate professor at the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh city (VNU-HCM). I'm leading a newly established Institute for Circular Economy Development (ICED) and also affiliated with socio-hydrology group at center of Water management and Climate Change (WACC), Institute for Env. and Res. (IER), VNU-HCM. I have a special interest in solving environmental related issues based on inter/trans-disciplinary study and by a strong partnership among academia-industry-government.
Larry Backer's picture
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W. Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law and International Affairs at Pennsylvania State University (B.A. Brandeis University; M.P.P. Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; J.D. Columbia University). Rresearches in the areas of economic globalization, corporate social responsibility (including human rights and sustainability/climate change), international affairs, global governance, trade and finance, and on Party-State systems, with specific focus on China and Cuba. Teaches courses in corporate law, CSR-RBC, multinational corporations, international institutions, as well as on religion and constitutional law (liberal democratic and Marxist-Leninist) . Lectured in Latin America, Europe and Asia. In addition to journal articles and contributions to collected multi-authored works, his publications include "Elements of Law and the U.S. Legal System "(Carolina Academic Press forthcoming 2021), "Hong Kong Between 'One Country' and 'Two Systems':" (Little Sir Press, forthcoming 2020); "Cuba’s Caribbean Marxism: Essays on Ideology, Government, Society, and Economy in the Post Fidel Castro Era" (Little Sir Press 2018); "Lawyers Making Meaning: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education II" (Springer, 2013) (with Jan M. Broekman) "Comparative Corporate Law" (Carolina Academic Press 2002), and edited collections of essays, "Signs in Law, a Source Book—The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education" (with Jan M. Broekman, Springer, 2014) "Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization" (Carolina Academic Press, 2007). He has published over one hundred articles and book chapters in journals in the U.S., Latin Americas, China, and Europe, where he has also lectured. His short essays on many of these topics may be found on his blogsite: “Law at the End of the Day” (https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/). Spainsh fuent; reading knowledge French, Italian, Portuguese.

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