CCAPS – Constitutional Design and Conflict Management – Planning Meeting – June 29-30, 2010

Participants

Joel Barkan (USA) Justin O. Frosini Bocconi University, Milan (ITALY) Gilbert Khadiagala University of Witwatersrand (SOUTH ) Alan J. Kuperman University of Texas at Austin (USA) Peter Lewis (USA) Eghosa E. Osaghae Igbinedion University (NIGERIA) Andrew Reynolds University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (USA) Filip Reyntjens University of Antwerp (BELGIUM) Michael Schatzberg University of Wisconsin (USA) Jeanne Toungara Howard University (USA) Nicolas Van de Walle (USA) Jennifer Widner (USA) Stefan Wolff (UK) I. William Zartman Johns Hopkins University (USA)

Short Bios

Joel D. Barkan is Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Iowa. A specialist on issues of democratization, governance and political economy across Anglophone Africa, he served as the first regional democracy and governance advisor for Eastern and Southern Africa at USAID from 1992 to 1994. Since then he has straddled the worlds of academe and the policy community by consulting extensively for USAID and the World Bank. Dr. Barkan has been a visiting fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (1997-98), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2001-2), the National Endowment for Democracy (2000, 2005-6), and the University of Cape Town (2004-present). He has written extensively on political processes and democratization including articles in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Foreign Affairs, The Journal of Democracy, the Journal of Modern African Studies and World Politics. His latest book is Legislative Power in Emerging African Democracies (2009).

Justin O. Frosini holds a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law from Bologna University. In Italy, he is presently Lecturer of Public Law at the Bocconi University, Milan, and Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development, Bologna. He has been visiting professor at several universities in Europe, the United States and Canada, and he is an affiliated scholar of the Bologna Center of The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He has published widely in the field of Comparative Constitutional Law and is on the editorial board of several comparative law journals.

Gilbert M. Khadiagala is the Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of International Relations at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has previously taught comparative politics and international relations in , Canada, and the United States. Dr. Khadiagala holds a doctorate in international studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. His research focuses on security and politics in Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, and the Great Lakes region. He is the recent author of Meddlers or Mediators? African Interveners in Civil Conflicts in Eastern Africa (2007), editor, Security Dynamics in Africa’s Great Lakes Region (2006), co-author, Sudan: The Elusive Quest for Peace (2007), and co-editor Conflict Management and African Politics: Ripeness, Bargaining, and

1 Mediation (2008). He is currently doing research on leadership in post-conflict reconstruction in Africa and mediation of electoral conflicts in Kenya and Zimbabwe.

Alan J. Kuperman leads the CCAPS project on Constitutional Design and Conflict Management in Africa. He is Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, and previously coordinated the international relations program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, Italy. He is author of The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (Brookings, 2001) and co-editor of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War (Routledge, 2006). His articles have appeared in journals and newspapers including Foreign Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, and The New York Times, and he has chapters in edited volumes including Conflict Management and Africa: Negotiation, Mediation, and Politics (Routledge, 2008). In 2009, he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, DC. Prior to his academic career, he worked as legislative director to Congressman Charles Schumer and legislative assistant to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thomas Foley. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT (2002).

Peter Lewis is Director of African Studies and Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His work focuses on economic reform and political transition in developing countries, with particular emphasis on governance and development in Sub- Saharan Africa. He has written extensively on questions of economic adjustment, democratization, and civil society in Africa; democratic reform and political economy in Nigeria; public attitudes toward reform and democracy in West Africa; and the comparative politics of economic change in Africa and Southeast Asia. His most recent book, Growing Apart: Politics and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria (University of Michigan Press 2007) is concerned with the institutional basis of economic development, drawing upon a comparative study of Indonesia and Nigeria. Dr. Lewis has published other coauthored and edited books, in addition to articles in World Politics, World Development, the Journal of Democracy, the Journal of Modern African Studies, African Affairs and others, and numerous book chapters. He is a member of the Research Council of the International Forum for Democratic Studies and a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has consulted for the Ford Foundation, the Carter Center, the Council on Foreign Relations, Freedom House, USAID, and the World Bank.

Eghosa E. Osaghae, Ph.D. (Political Science, University of Ibadan 1986) is Professor of Comparative Politics and Vice Chancellor of Igbinedion University, Okada, Nigeria. He was leader of the Ford Foundation’s Program on Ethnic and Federal Studies and Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ibadan where he has taught since 1982, and has held academic positions in Liberia, South Africa, Sweden, USA, UK and India. Osaghae chaired the Pan-African Working Group on “Building Institutional Effectiveness in Africa” hosted by the Institute for Global Dialogue (South Africa) and Federal Trust Fund (UK) in 2005/6, and has been a member of the Technical Advisory Panel and Network on Parliaments and Parliamentary Institutions of the African Capacity Building Foundation, Harare, Zimbabwe, since 2003, as well as member of the Centre Advisory Review Group, Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability, IDS, University of Sussex, UK. He is founder and chair of the Governing Board of the Community Relations and Conflict Resolution Centre in Ibadan and serves on the editorial boards of international journals. His publications include Between State and Civil Society in Africa; Ethnicity, Class and State Power in Liberia; Crippled Giant: Nigeria Since Independence; and Researching Conflict in Africa: Insights and Experiences; as well as several articles in learned journals.

Andrew Reynolds is Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his M.A. from the University of Cape Town and his Ph.D. from

2 the University of California, San Diego. His research and teaching focus on democratization, constitutional design and electoral politics. Among his books are the following: Designing Democracy in a Dangerous World (Oxford, forthcoming), The Architecture of Democracy: Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy, ed. (Oxford, 2002), Electoral Systems and Democratization in Southern Africa (Oxford, 1999), Election ’99 South Africa: From Mandela to Mbeki, ed. (St. Martin’s, 1999), and Elections and Conflict Management in Africa (USIP, 1998), co-edited with T. Sisk. He has served as a consultant on issues of electoral and constitutional design for Afghanistan, Angola, Burma, Egypt, Fiji, Guyana, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, , Pakistan, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

Filip Reyntjens is Professor of African Law and Politics at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp. He is a full member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences and a board member of several scientific organizations, including the Institute of Tropical Medecine (Antwerp), the International Third World Legal Studies Association (New York) and the Development Research Institute IVO (Tilburg). Among other assignments, he has been a visiting professor in Paris, Pretoria, Butare (Rwanda), Kinshasa and Mbarara (Uganda) and the vice-rector of the University of Mbuji-Mayi (DRC). For over thirty years, he has specialized in the law and politics of Sub- Sahara Africa, and the Great Lakes Region in particular, on which he has published a dozen books and hundreds of scholarly articles. He has acted as an expert witness on the law and politics of Rwanda, Burundi and the DRC in national courts in countries such as Belgium, France, Switzerland, Tanzania, the UK and the US, as well as before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court. He has done consultancy work for several ministries of Foreign Affairs and Development Co-operation and for international NGOs.

Michael Schatzberg is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he served from 2004 to 2007 as director of the African studies program. He holds a Ph.D. in political science is from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1977). His major teaching and research interests include African politics, comparative politics, and political culture. He also teaches an occasional graduate seminar on qualitative methods. His books include Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), Politics and Class in Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business, and Beer in Lisala (New York: Holmes & Meier, Africana, 1980), and Mobutu or Chaos? The United States and Zaire, 1960– 1990 (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1991). He has also published articles in numerous professional journals. His current research project deals with the politics, economics, and culture of football (soccer) in sub-Saharan Africa.

Jeanne M. Toungara is Associate Professor of History at Howard University.Her research interests include West African intellectual history, indigenous thought, precolonial state formation, political culture and democratization within francophone African nations, with particular emphasis on Côte d'Ivoire. She is the recipient of study and research awards from the Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright-Hayes Program, Ministry of National Education of Côte d'Ivoire, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, the West African Research Association, and Howard University. Professor Toungara is the author of over a dozen articles on the history of women, family, education, economy and politics of various West African communities. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Modern African Studies, Journal of African Studies, Journal of Social History, Annales de l'Université d'Abidjian, African Studies Review, Les cahiers de la paix, West African Research Association Newsletter, and others. She has contributed essays and chapters in African Women: States of Crisis (ed., Gwendolyn Mikell, 1996), The Younger Brother in Mande ( eds.Jansen and

3 Zobel, 1996), and The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (1993) and is working on a book- length manuscript on political culture in the northwestern region of Côte d'Ivoire.

Nicolas van de Walle (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1990) is Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. He taught at Michigan State University from 1990-2004. He has published widely on democratization issues as well as on the politics of economic reform and on the effectiveness of foreign aid, with special focus on Africa. His books include Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries (2005), African Economies and The Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999 (2001), and Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspectives (1997, avec Michael Bratton). In addition, van de Walle has worked extensively as a consultant for a variety of international and multilateral organizations, including the World Bank, USAID, and UNDP.

Jennifer Widner is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace & Justice. She leads Innovations for Successful Societies, a program that builds knowledge about institution building and service delivery in challenging settings. She is working on a book about escaping governance traps as well as a project on constitution writing. She is author of Building the Rule of Law (W. W. Norton), a study of courts and law in Africa and other developing country contexts. She has published articles on a variety of topics in Democratization, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Development Studies, The William & Mary Law Review, Daedalus, the American Journal of International Law, and other publications. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 2004-5, she taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan.

Stefan Wolff is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for International Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution at the University of Nottingham, England, UK. A political scientist by background, he specializes in the management of contemporary security challenges, especially in the prevention and settlement of ethnic conflicts and in post-conflict reconstruction in deeply divided and war-torn societies. Wolff’s publications to date include twelve books and over twenty journal articles and book chapters. His latest monograph is Ethnic Conflict: Causes—Consequences—Responses (Polity 2009, with Karl Cordell). Wolff is the founding editor of Ethnopolitics (http://www.informaworld.com/reno), a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of ethnic conflicts and their management around the globe. Stefan Wolff holds a Masters Degree from Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

I. William Zartman is the Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University in Washington, and member of the Steering Committee of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program. He has been a Distinguished Fellow of the United States Institute of Peace, Olin Professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, Elie Halévy Professor at Sciences Pô in Paris, and holder of the Bernheim Chair at the Free University of Bruxelles, and received a lifetime achievement award from the International Association for Conflict Management. He is author of a number of books, including Negotiation and Conflict Management: Essays in Theory and Practice, The Practical Negotiator, Ripe for Resolution and Cowardly Lions: Missed Opportunities to Prevent Deadly Conflict and State Collapse, and Morocco: Problems of New Power, and co-editor of Terrorist Negotiations: Who Holds Whom Hostage? and State Engagement with Terrorists: Negotiating Ends and Means. He is also president of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM), and was founding president of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies and past President of the Studies Association. His doctorate is from Yale (1956) and his honorary doctorate from Louvain (1997).

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