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Constitutional Design and Conflict Management – Planning Meeting – June 29-30, 2010 CCAPS – Constitutional Design and Conflict Management – Planning Meeting – June 29-30, 2010 Participants Joel Barkan University of Iowa (USA) Justin O. Frosini Bocconi University, Milan (ITALY) Gilbert Khadiagala University of Witwatersrand (SOUTH AFRICA) Alan J. Kuperman University of Texas at Austin (USA) Peter Lewis Johns Hopkins University (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 Cornell University (USA) Jennifer Widner Princeton University (USA) Stefan Wolff University of Nottingham (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 Kenya, 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, Northern Ireland, 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
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