CCAPS Conference on Constitutional Design and Conflict Management in Africa PANELIST BIOS Catherine Boone is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in comparative politics, with an emphasis on theories of political economy and economic development. She has conducted research on industrial, commercial, and land tenure policies in West Africa, where her work has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright, the World Bank, and the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She also served as President of the West Africa Research Association from 2005-2008, overseeing the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal. Her books include Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal, 1930-1985 (Cambridge, 1992), and Political Topographies of the African State: Rural Authority and Institutional Choice (Cambridge, 2003), winner of a 2005 award from the Society for Comparative Research. Herman J. Cohen is a 38-year veteran of the U.S. State Department Foreign Service. Ambassador Cohen has devoted his professional career to African and European affairs. He worked in Africa for twelve years in five countries, including three years in Senegal as the American Ambassador. His Washington assignments included four years as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research, two years in the National Security Council as President Reagan’s Senior Director for Africa, and four years as Assistant Secretary of State for Africa under President George Bush (1989-1993). Mr. Cohen was Senior Adviser to the Global Coalition for Africa from 1994 to 1998, and is currently President of the Africa-oriented consulting firm Cohen and Woods International. He travels to Africa regularly on behalf of American business firms. His book, Intervening in Africa: Superpower Conflict Resolution in a Troubled Continent (Palgrave Macmillan) won the award for best book on diplomatic practice in the year 2000 from the American Academy of Diplomacy. Gordon Crawford is Professor of Development Politics at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, UK, where he is also the Director of the Centre for Global Development. He is co-editor of the journal Democratization, and co-convener of the Governance and Development Working Group of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). He has authored articles and books on issues of democracy promotion, notably by the European Union, and on decentralization in Africa. Much of his recent work has focused on Ghana, including several journal articles: “The World Bank and Ghana’s Poverty Reduction Strategies” (in Labour, Capital and Society), “Consolidating Democracy in Ghana” (in Democratization), and “Decentralisation and struggles for basic rights in Ghana” (in International Journal of Human Rights). He has also co-edited (with Gabrielle Lynch) a 2011 special issue on “Democratization in Africa: Challenges and Prospects” (Democratization 18,2), including an introductory article on “Democratization in Africa 1990-2010: an assessment.” He is currently working on a research project entitled ‘human rights, power and civic action’ in collaboration with Prof. Bard Anders Andreassen of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo. (See http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/research/projects/human-rights-power.php.) Zachary Elkins is Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on issues of democracy, institutional reform, research methods, and national identity. He recently co-authored The Endurance of National Constitutions (Cambridge UP, 2009), which explores the factors that lead to the survival of national constitutions. Currently, he is completing a book manuscript, Designed by Diffusion: Constitutional Reform in Developing Democracies, which examines the design and diffusion of democratic institutions. He also co-directs (with Tom Ginsburg of the University of Chicago) the Comparative Constitutions Project, an NSF-funded initiative to understand the causes and consequences of constitutional choices, and the website www.constitutionmaking.org, which provides resources and analysis for constitutional drafters in new democracies. Pierre Englebert is Professor of African politics at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and the author of Africa: Unity, Sovereignty and Sorrow (Lynne Rienner 2009) and State Legitimacy and Development in Africa (Lynne Rienner 2000). Justin O. Frosini holds a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law from Bologna University. In Italy, he is Assistant Professor 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. Alan Goulty served for 40 years in the British Diplomatic Service, culminating as UK Ambassador to Tunisia (2004-2008) and Sudan (1995-1999). In addition, he was UK special representative to Sudan (2002-2004) for the peace negotiations that successfully ended a long-running civil war, and subsequently for Darfur’s peace negotiations (2005-2006). His academic postings include a fellowship at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and an adjunct professorship at Georgetown University. Most recently, he has been Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, DC, leading a project on “Peacemaking in Sudan.” Bernard Grofman is the Jack W. Peltason Chair and Professor of Political Science, and an Adjunct Professor of Economics, at the University of California, Irvine, where he also is Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy. He is an authority on American politics, comparative election systems, and social choice theory, and has served as an expert witness or court-appointed consultant in state legislative and congressional lawsuits in 11 states. His co-authored books include Minority Representation and the Quest for Voting Equality (Cambridge UP, 1992), and A Unified Theory of Party Competition: A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors (Cambridge UP, 2005). His co-edited books include Representation and Redistricting Issues (Lexington Books, 1982); Choosing an Electoral System (Praeger, 1984); Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences (Agathon Press, 1986); and The Evolution of Electoral and Party Systems in the Nordic Countries (Agathon Press, 2002). 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 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). 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