Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective Volume 10 Article 11 Number 2 Sustainable Livelihoods and Conflict March 2016 About the Contributors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/jgi This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Recommended Citation (2016) "About the Contributors," Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective: Vol. 10 : No. 2 , Article 11. Available at: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/jgi/vol10/iss2/11 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. About the Contributors Journal of Global Initiatives Vol. 10, No. 2, 2016, pp. 165-167 About the Contributors Akanmu G. Adebayo is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. Email: [email protected] Vide Adedayo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Lagos, Nigeria. Her area of research includes agriculture and environmental relations, ecosystem and human health, advocacy, training and education on food security, and poverty and sociocultural and indigenous knowledge issues. Email: [email protected] ’Bola Amaike is a Senior Lecturer and a researcher in the Department of Sociology, University of Lagos, Nigeria. Dr. Amaike's research interests concern social gerontology, development studies, and social work. She has published in journals locally and internationally. Her current research is on intergenerational transfers and livelihoods in Africa. Email: [email protected], [email protected] Peter Omu Elias is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Lagos, Nigeria. His specialization includes soils and land-use planning. His current research interests include inclusive urban governance and service delivery, local assets and self-sustaining community development, and climate adaptation planning. Email: [email protected] Eniola Fabusoro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. He specializes in rural socio-economics, agriculture, development, and pastoral livelihoods. Email: [email protected] Mayowa Fasona is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Lagos, Nigeria. His areas of specialization include remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems, natural resource management, and environmental change. Email: [email protected] 166 Journal of Global Initiatives Mala Galtima teaches in the Department of Geography, Gombe State University Gombe State, Nigeria. Email: [email protected] Henry Kam Kah is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Buea, Cameroon. Email: [email protected], [email protected] Brandon D. Lundy is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the PhD program in International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. Email: [email protected] Abiodun Odusote teaches Constitutional Law at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria. His research interests focus on enjoyment and enforcement of socio- economic rights, enthronement of good governance, accountability in leadership, access to qualitative education, access to justice, promotion of democracy, and peace studies. Email: [email protected] Felix Olorunfemi is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Ibadan, Nigeria. He is also a Research Fellow and African coordinator of the Earth System Governance Project. His research works are focused on climate change adaptation, disaster risk management, resource management, and food security. Email: [email protected] Grace Oloukoi teaches Environmental Management at Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria. Her research areas include environmental planning and management and climate adaptation with special interest in water within the environmental system and gender studies. Email: [email protected] John Oyedepo is a senior environmental scientist with the Institute of Food Security, Environmental Resources, and Agricultural Research, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. His areas of interest include climate change adaptation/mitigation strategies, biodiversity, and ecosystem assessment. E mail: [email protected] Amanda J. Reinke is a doctoral candidate at the University of Tennessee’s Department of Anthropology and Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights Program. Her research investigates lived experiences of law and policy in contexts of conflict and displacement. Email: [email protected] Anne Pitsch Santiago received her Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Portland in the Department of Political Science. She has been teaching for over 10 years, and focuses her research on the socio-political dynamics of land policy reform in East Africa. Email: [email protected] About the Contributors 167 Comfort Sodiya is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. She is a rural sociologist and pastoral study expert with over 20 years of experience. Email: [email protected] Whanda J. Shittu teaches in the Department of Geography, Gombe State University, Gombe State, Nigeria. Email: [email protected] Ahmadu Abubakar Tafida is a Lecturer I in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola Nigeria. His specialization includes rural development, extension, and sustainable livelihoods. His current research interests include poverty and conflict, livelihood diversification capital assets, natural resources, governance, and climate adaptation. Email: [email protected] Dan Yakubu teaches in the Department of Geography, Gombe State University, Gombe State, Nigeria. Email: [email protected] 168 Journal of Global Initiatives .