Registration
8:30am – 9:00am
Opening Remarks
9am - 9:10am
Lee Cassanelli
African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Alternative Contexts
of Conflict
9:10am – 10:20am
“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
Coffee Break
10:20-10:30
Challenges in Central
Africa
10:30am – 11:20am
“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
The Aftermath of the
Ethiopian-Eritrean War: Perspectives from the Eritrean Diaspora
11:20am – 12:10pm
Lee Cassanelli, Filmon Mebrahtu, Tomas Mebrahtu
(L-R)
“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
Lunch Break
12:10pm - 1:30pm
Film
by Filmon Mebrahtu to be previewed in Terrace Room during lunch break.
Keynote Address
1:30pm - 2:30pm
“Africa
in the War on Terrorism”
Harvey Glickman, Haverford College
Poetry Reading
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley,
Western Michigan University
Coffee Break
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Challenges in West
Africa
3:30pm - 5:30pm
Chair and Discussant, Al
Hassan Conteh, Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict
“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
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