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Seminar Booklet Fall 2011.Indd SSpecialpecial TTopicopic SSeminareminar SSerieseries FallFall 20112011 CConsolidationonsolidation ofof DemocracyDemocracy inin Africa:Africa: GGovernance,overnance, AAccountability,ccountability, andand ElectionsElections Issues in African Development CConsolidationonsolidation ooff DemocracyDemocracy iinn AAfrica:frica: GGovernance,overnance, AccountabilityAccountability & EElectionslections Special Topic Seminar Series Fall 2011 Recent developments in Africa have once again emphasized that the key issue confronting emerging democracies is how to make governments accountable, participatory and trans- Each semester the Institute for African Development holds a seminar series on parent to the people. Various institutions and mechanisms of accountability have been put Issues in African Development that examines critical issues in contemporary Africa into place, though their eff ectiveness in holding governments to account and indeed how the institutions themselves are held accountable remains a question. Africa is arguably the and explores a myriad of ways to address these issues. Th e seminars provide a continent where the problem of accountable governance remains most stark. Th e decolo- forum for experts in African development to discuss and identify characteristics nization process of the 1960s promised an era of self-rule and independence in which the of development and suggest solutions to obstacles in the development process. new governments would be both responsive to the needs of the people and accountable to Additionally, the series serves as a focal activity for participants to explore them. Yet the regimes that decolonization gave birth to did not meet that promise. One- alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. party systems and military dictatorships mushroomed throughout the continent. Th e democratic wave of the 1990s resuscitated people’s yearning for greater account- Th e seminar series is organized around a specifi c theme chosen by the Institute ability and resulted in constitutions that were much improved over those adopted at each semester for its pertinence to the times. Past themes have included: independence. For a while governance was improving across the continent. Th e political • Curse or Blessing? Natural Resources in the Economic Development of Africa environment was liberalized, human rights were better respected and both women and • Capacity Building: Health Care, Education, Human Resources & Governance men began to play a greater role in shaping the continent. In the past decade there have been setbacks. Events in North Africa, Ivory Coast, Madagascar and Zimbabwe have raised • Economic and Humanitarian Aid and Sustainable Development new questions and exposed the democratic defi cit in many African countries. Th e Africa • Th e Impact of Rising Food & Energy Costs on Achieving the MDGs in Africa. Progress Panel in its 2011 Annual State of the Continent Report observed—pointing to the crises in Libya and Ivory Coast as examples—that nearly two-thirds of African countries have seen a deterioration in political participation, human rights and the rule of law. Th e report notes a worrying trend—that of leaders clinging to power. Six of the nine presiden- All seminars are in G08 Uris Hall tial elections held last year were won by incumbents, some of whom have been in power for Th ursdays at 2:30 PM well over two decades. Making African governments accountable to their people therefore remains a huge challenge. Th e reasons for this challenge are many and complex. Some are Begins September 1 historical, others are current, some are attributable to external factors and still others are Free and open to the public internal factors. Th e seminar series will allow us to explore such issues as: Also available as a one-credit course CRP 4770 (1461) or CRP 6770 (1469) Mass movements, democratic awakening and reform in Africa; Defi ning accountable government; Constitution-making and public participation; Gender equality and governance; National Human Rights Commissions and accountability; Social movements and accountability; Political parties and their role in fostering accountability; External accountability enforced by donor agencies; EEinaudiinaudi CenterCenter forfor InternationalInternational StudiesStudies Th e AU and democratization; 119090 UUrisris Hall,Hall, CornellCornell UniversityUniversity Foreign intervention and democratization; Poverty and governance; ((607)607) 2255-5499/684955-5499/6849 Electoral systems, elections and democracy; [email protected]@cornell.edu wwww.einaudi.cornell.edu/Africaww.einaudi.cornell.edu/Africa Political participation, democratic culture and democracy; Th e challenges of state-building and institution-building; Enclosures/land leasing/land selling by African governments; Political leadership styles in Africa. Issues in African Development Fall 2011 Seminar Speaker Schedule SSept.ept. 1 CConstitutiononstitution MakingMaking iinn AAfrica:frica: TThehe CChallengeshallenges OOct.ct. 2200 LLand-grabbingand-grabbing aandnd TTransparencyransparency Muna Ndulo, Professor of Law, Cornell University Anuradha Mittal, Founder and Director, SSept.ept. 8 CCorruptionorruption andand SState-Building:tate-Building: Th e Oakland Institute PPoliticsolitics iinn SSierraierra LLeoneeone OOct.ct. 2277 FForeignoreign IInterventionsnterventions aandnd DDemocratizationemocratization Pablo Yanguas, Ph.D. Candidate, Government, Mamoudou Gazibo Cornell University Professor of Political Science SSept.ept. 1515 BBuildinguilding DDemocraticemocratic PPoliticalolitical IInstitutionsnstitutions University of Montreal iinn AAfricafrica NNov.ov. 3 GGenderender aandnd Democracy:Democracy: CChallengeshallenges aandnd Stephen Orvis, Professor of Government CContradictionsontradictions Hamilton College Judith van Allen IAD Visiting Fellow SSept.ept. 2222 IInstitutionalizingnstitutionalizing DDemocracyemocracy iinn AAfrica?frica? EEarlyarly FFindingsindings ffromrom tthehe AAfricanfrican LLegislaturesegislatures PProjectroject NNov.ov. 1100 EElections,lections, PParticipationarticipation aandnd AAccountabilityccountability Joel Barkan, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic iinn SSouthouth SSudanudan and International Studies; Professor Emeritus, Maggie Ray, Program Director, African Centre Political Science, University of Iowa for Justice and Peace Studies; Visiting Fellow, Institute for African Development SSept.ept. 2929 VViolence,iolence, PPartisanshipartisanship aandnd TTransitionalransitional JJusticeustice iinn ZZimbabweimbabwe NNov.ov. 1177 PPower-sharingower-sharing iinn ZZimbabweimbabwe Michael Bratton, University Distinguished Professor Norma Kriger of Political Science and African Studies, Consultant on Southern Africa Michigan State University DDec.ec. 1 SStudenttudent wrap-upwrap-up OOct.ct. 1133 PPictures,ictures, PPartyarty SSymbols,ymbols, aandnd VVotes:otes: TThehe EEffectffect ooff BallotBallot DDesignesign oonn VoteVote OutcomesOutcomes Devra Moehler, Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania 3 4 SSeptembereptember 1,1, 20112011 SSeptembereptember 15,15, 22011011 CConstitutiononstitution MMakingaking inin AAfrica:frica: TThehe CChallengeshallenges BBuildinguilding DDemocraticemocratic PPoliticalolitical IInstitutionsnstitutions iinn AAfricafrica Muna Ndulo, Director, IAD Stephen Orvis, Professor of Government Professor of Law, Cornell University Hamilton College Muna Ndulo is Professor of Law at Cornell University and Director of Cornell’s Institute for African Develop- Stephen Orvis (Ph.D., Wisconsin), is Associate Professor of ment. Early in his career he was a Professor of Law and Government at Hamilton College. He studies comparative later Dean of the Law School at the University of Zam- politics with an emphasis on Africa. His articles on rural bia. In 1986 he joined the UN as a Legal Offi cer for the development in Kenya and African democratization have Commission on International Trade Law and subsequently appeared in African Studies Review, Studies in Comparative served in many capacities, including Senior Political Advisor to the Secretary Gen- International Development, and Journal of Asian and African eral’s Special Representative to South Africa and Senior Legal Advisor on missions Studies. His book, Th e Agrarian Question in Kenya, is published with University to East Timor, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. He has consulted on constitution-mak- Press of Florida. He served as an international election observer in Kenya’s tran- ing in Kenya, Sudan, Zimbabwe and Somalia; he has also been a consultant for in- sitional elections to democratic rule and led 11 Hamilton students on the Kenya ternational organizations including the African Development Bank, the Economic Field School in Summer 2000. Commission for Africa, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. He is a mem- SSeptembereptember 22,22, 22011011 ber of the Advisory Committee, Human Rights Watch (Africa) and Chairperson of Gender Links, a South African NGO. He has published well over 100 journal IInstitutionalizingnstitutionalizing DDemocracyemocracy iinn AAfrica?frica? articles and 14 books, including Power, Gender and Social Change in Africa (with EEarlyarly FFindingsindings ffromrom tthehe AAfricanfrican LLegislaturesegislatures PProjectroject Margaret Grieco, 2009); and Comparative Constitutionalism and Good Governance Joel Barkan, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and
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