Participant List TRUTH COMMISSIONS AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE PROCESSES IN AFRICA 2019 Staff Support Contact Information For assistance throughout the conference, you can contact the following project team members: Adebisi Alade Project Coordinator McMaster University / Confronting Atrocity Mobile: +234 (802) 461 6570 [email protected]; [email protected] Noble Gati Research Assistant / Team Member Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration / Confronting Atrocity Mobile: +233 (024) 499 3223 [email protected] Dr. Jasper Ayelazuno Convener and Co-Investigator University for Development Studies / Confronting Atrocity Mobile: +233(024) 240 4059 [email protected] Dr. Bonny Ibhawoh Convener and Principal Investigator McMaster University / Confronting Atrocity Mobile: +1 (905) 525 9140 Ext. 24153 [email protected] Conference Participant List Name and Email Institutional Affiliation Short Bio Abiodun, Adiat A. Obafemi Awolowo University, Mr Adiat A. Abiodun holds bachelor and masters degree in Political Science [email protected] Nigeria and International Relations respectively from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife, Osun state. He is also a doctoral student of the same institution. He currently lectures at the Obafemi Awolowo University Centre for Distance Learning in Ile-Ife, Osun State. Abioro, Tunde (PhD) Obafemi Awolowo University, Tunde Abioro holds a PhD in Political Science from Obafemi Awolowo [email protected] Nigeria University, Nigeria, where he is also a Faculty Member and he lectures in the Department of Local Government Studies. His research interest is in Human Security and Comparative Governance. He has a number of peer reviewed papers and conference proceedings in both local and international journals either singly or in collaboration with colleagues. Adepoju, Oluwayemisi A. Covenant University, Adepoju Oluwayemisi is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the Department [email protected] Nigeria of Political Science and International Relations, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. Her research interests are on Gender, Peace and Conflict Resolution and Development Studies. Currently, She is a Lecturer at WOLEX Polytechnic where she teaches Nigerian Government and Politics and Citizenship Education, International Relations, Small Business Management and International Business. She has also done a couple of research work on girl-child education, women participation in peace processes, women participation in local governance etc. in order to project herself as an upcoming Gender scholar and to also create a gender- inclusive awareness in Africa, especially in Nigeria. Afari, Frank Graduate Institute of International and Frank Afari is a doctoral candidate in the Department of International [email protected] Development Studies, Switzerland History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland). Through the lens of Ghana’s National Reconciliation Commission (NRC), a truth commission established in 2002, his ongoing doctoral research seeks to explore the truncations of constitutional governance in Ghana’s post-colonial history and their associated human rights violations as well as transitions to democratization through the pursuit of truth, restorative justice and reconciliation. Akinyemi, Victoria (PhD) Obafemi Awolowo University, Omolara Akinyemi holds a Ph.D. degree in International Relations from the [email protected] Nigeria Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and also teaches in this same Department since year 2013. She specializes in Political-Economy, Border and Security issues in West Africa, an area in which she has published articles in reputable journals. Her latest publications include Globalization and Border Security, Border’s in Nigeria Relations with Cameroon; The Politics of Monetary Integration and Trade in ECOWAS and Managing Nigeria’s Security and National Development. Alade, Adebisi McMaster University, Adebisi Alade is a Ph.D. candidate and Ontario Trillium Scholar in the [email protected] Canada Department of History, McMaster University, Canada. His research is at the intersection of environment and health with interest in water and sanitation. He is currently studying colonial sanitation experiences of Africans and the various government interventions from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century in Southwestern Nigeria. Previously, he was a Water Without Borders scholar at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) where he studied International Public Policy Development. He has a number of peer-reviewed articles, book chapter, and book reviews in reputable journals. Adebisi is the Coordinator of the Confronting Atrocity project, and a member of McMaster Participedia research team. Albert, Isaac Olawale (PhD) University of Ibadan, Isaac Olawale Albert is a Professor of African History, Peace and Conflict [email protected] Nigeria Studies and the pioneer Director of the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He was a federal delegate to the 2014 National Conference in Abuja and also served in 2014/2015 as a member of the Presidential Panel for the Review Nigeria’s Defence Policy. He was a Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre in February/March 2016. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the African Union’s African Journal for the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism. Aleer, Koat (LL.M) Centre for the Study of Violence and Koat Aleer is a Senior Advocacy Officer at the Centre for the Study of [email protected] Reconciliation, South Africa Violence and Reconciliation. She holds a LLM and LLB from the University of Leeds and a B.A. degree from the University of Toronto. Her areas of specialization include international law, treaty law and human rights law with particular focus on Africa, areas in which she has respectively written on and worked. She has gained a wide array of experience in various capacities at international organizations including the African Prisons Project, International Organization for Migration and the African Union Commission. Alhassan, Amin (PhD) University for Development Studies, Amin Alhassan is an Associate Professor of Communication at the [email protected] Ghana University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale, Ghana. He worked as a journalist at the Ghana News Agency and the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation before becoming an academic. He completed his PhD in Communication at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and previously taught at McGill University, Montreal, and at York University, Toronto. He is currently the Principal of the Wa Campus of the UDS. His research interest is in development communication, communication ethics, political communication and radio broadcasting. Alidu, Seidu (PhD) University of Ghana, Dr. Seidu Alidu is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, [email protected] Ghana Department of Political Science. He is a visiting lecturer to twelve MRPP Universities in Africa. He is also a Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) fellow on Parliament and Democracy. He has published widely, and presented conference papers on different specialization areas including conflict resolution, transitional justice and human rights. Ame, Robert (PhD) Wilfrid Laurier University, Dr. Robert Ame is Associate Professor of Human Rights and Criminology at [email protected] Canada Wilfrid Laurier University. His research interests include youth justice, children’s rights, and truth and reconciliation commissions. He is co-editor of two books, Children’s Rights in Ghana: Rhetoric or Reality? (Lexington Books) and Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global (Palgrave McMillan). His other publications have appeared in several academic journals, technical reports, and as chapters in books. Appiagyei, Enoch University of Calgary, Enoch Appiagyei a Doctoral student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the [email protected] Canada University of Calgary (Department of Political Science), and specializes in International Law and the Politics of International Security. Asare, Abena (PhD) Stoney Brooke University, Abena Ampofoa Asare is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and [email protected] USA History at Stony Brook University- State University of New York. Her research and writing span questions of human rights, citizenship and transformative justice in Africa and the African diaspora. Her work can be found in The Radical Teacher, The International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, African Arguments, and Foreign Policy in Focus, among other places. She is the author of Truth Without Reconciliation: a Human Rights History of Ghana (University of Pennsylvania, 2018) which was a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title in 2018. In 2019 she is Scholar-in-Residence at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Ayelazuno, Jasper A. (PhD) University for Development Studies, Dr. Ayelazuno is a Ghanaian public servant and academic with more than [email protected] Ghana 30 years combined experience of public service, teaching, and research. He obtained his PhD in Political Science from York University in Canada, and his MA in Development Studies from Sussex University in England. Before joining the academy, he worked as a police officer in the Ghana Police Service. He also served in the UN peacekeeping missions