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Dr. Abdelkader Allali

SmartSelectImage_2018-05-14-12-59-46 (1)As a University and in particular the School of International Relations and Diplomacy, we are proud to be associated with Dr. Abdelkader Allali as a member of our International Editorial Advisory Board on our academic and professional programmes on Environmental Diploamacy. Born in Morocco, Dr. Allali is a member of the scientific community (ICSU) on various Global Working Groups.

Dr. Allali is the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Co-Winner and former IPCC Working Group II Vice Chair AR4. He is curently the President of the Moroccan Association Hassanian for Health and Environment (AMHES).

Member of the Moroccan Green Academy (2015). President of the Arab African Network to promote Biofuels, founded in Mauritania on June 2012. Leader of the National Committee of the Earth Science Matters Foundation in Morocco. Member and Founder of the Moroccan Association on Green Economy (2010). President of the Moroccan Association Hassanian for Environment and Health (2010). Member of the Moroccan Assocaition on Evaluation since 2010. Member of the Steering Committee of the Global Change and Water Resources in West Africa Projects: GLOWA  (2007-2008). Member of the UNFCCC Joint Implementation Evaluation Team for accreditation (2007-2008). Member of the National Committee on Environment Impacts Studies in Morocco (2006-2009). Member of the National Scientific and Technical Committee on Climate Change (Morocco) (2001-2002). Member of the IPCC Bureau (Vice chair of the WGII: Monitoring and evaluation of Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change) (2002-2008). Member of the Environment Club of the Ribat Alfath Association for Sustainable Development since 2005. Member of the committee for cooperation between the NGOs of environment in Morocco. Member of the first and second national council on environment of Morocco (sessions of 1995 and 2000). Member of the Moroccan CDM Assessment Team on monitoring and evaluation projects 2006-2007-2008. Lead author of the  Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 2004. Adviser and bureau memeber of the Moroccan Association on Environnement Protection (ASMAPPE) 1999. Founder and General Secretary of the National Assocaition on Climatology  (ANACLIM) in Morocco (1993-1996). Contributor to the Regional Workshop  Rio +5, supported by the GEF. Arab Network of Environment NGOs to prepare environment report for the Agenda 21 of the UN and its Conventions bodies (1996) Beyrouth, Lebanon. Member of the committee of cooperation between NGOs of environment in Morocco to develop monitoring and evaluation projects supported by USAID / UNDP / CEE and the World Bank. Monitoring and Evaluation of environmental projects: Sessions of 1995 and 2000.

 

Prof. Takahashi Motoki

TakaProfessor, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe University (2002-the present) and Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Studies, Kyoto University (2016-the present). He is also a member of Science Council of Japan. He formerly was a member of the Education and Research Board of Kobe University and the Dean of GSICS (2007-2009). He has served as the Chief Editor, the Vice-President and the President of Japan Society for International Development, and as a councilor, an executive board member and the Chief Editor of Japan Association for African Studies. He is academically specialized in political economy of development in Sub-Saharan Africa and development cooperation for low-Income countries. He has published several books, including Contemporary African Economies: A Changing Continent under Globalization (co – edited, 2016, African Development Bank), and a number of articles on these issues.
He has been commissioned some tens of research, evaluation, and advisory works for Japanese ministries and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). He studied at Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, and School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), the Johns Hopkins University.

Prof. Akiko Sugiki, Kobe Gakuin University, Japan

Akiko SUGIKI is Professor of International Relations, at the Faculty of Law, Kobe, Gakuin Univiersty. She earned her Doctorate degree in Government, from the University of Essex, UK, 2003. She studied and graduated with Bachelor’s degree in international relations from Tsuda College, Japan, 1992. Akiko holds a couple of Masters Degrees, among them, in human rights and IR from the University of Essex, UK, 1998 and London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, UK, 1995, respectively. Her areas of expertise, include, International Relations, African Politics, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies.

Prof. Abu B. Bah, Northern Illinois University, USA

Abu B. Bah, is Professor of Sociology at the Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the Editor-In-Chief, African Conflict and Peace building Review, ACPR. Scholarly Interests: My research focuses on issues of democracy, nation building, ethnicity, and the peace-making and peace-building role of the international community. Recent Courses Taught: Racial and Ethnic Relations, Sociology of Education, Sociological Theory, and Migration.

Prof. Godwell Nhamo, University of South Africa

Godwell Nhamo, is Professor at the University of South Africa, UNISA. He is a C3 Rated NRF researcher in the areas of climate policy, green economy and sustainable development. He has published widely in this space including six books (one co-authored and five edited) and over 60 journal articles. Since 2010, he has graduated nine PhDs and mentored 10 postdoctoral fellows. Prof Nhamo has received numerous recognitions, among them: Appointment as IPCC Expert for the Scoping of the Special Report on the Impacts of global warming of 1.5°C, three years appointment as one of the five members of the Global Reporting Initiative’s Due Process Oversight Committee, University of South Africa’s (Unisa) Chairperson of Council Award of Excellence in Overall Job Performance and Community Service, Unisa Vice Chancellor Award of Research Excellence and  a recipient of the Distinguished Old Rhodian Award from Rhodes University, South Africa.

Dr. Cristina D’ Alessandro, Paris School of International Affairs, France

Cristina D’Alessandro is a Senior Fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa (Canada) and a Research Fellow at the Research Centre PRODIG (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonnne, CNRS) and a Scientific manager at the National Research Agency, in Paris, France. Previously she served as a Professor at Sciences-Po, Paris and at the University Lumière Lyon 2, and as a Knowledge Expert at the African Capacity Building Foundation in Harare (Zimbabwe). As an international scholar with experience in three continents (Africa, Europe, America), she also serves as an advisor and expert for international organizations and institutions.

Prof. Korwa G. Adar, Daystar University, Kenya

Korwa Adar is Professor of International Studies based at Daystar University, and former Research Director at the Africa Institute of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. He is one of the Trustees of the African Institute of Leaders and Leadership, Nairobi, Kenya. He received his BSc and MSc in Political Science at Indiana State University, followed by MA and PhD in International Studies at the University of South Carolina, USA. Prof. Adar lectured in International Relations Theory, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Law and Organization, African International Relations, and African Diplomacy at Rhodes University, South Africa, United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, and the University of Nairobi, Kenya.

Prof. Pontian G. Okoth, MMUST University, Kenya

Pontian G. Okoth is Professor of History and International Relations with the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kakamega, Kenya. He was born in Uganda and he received the B.A (Hons) degree in History and the concurrent diploma in Education from Makerere University in 1978, the MA in history from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1980 and the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Diplomatic History from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1987.

Prof.Okoth has held teaching positions at Makere University, where he rose to become Associate Professor of History in 1991.In 1996, Prof.Okoth was promoted to the rank of Professor of History at Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya. Prof.Okoth has also held administrative positions in various Universities. He has been Vice Chancellor,Lugazi University, Kampala, Uganda, Director of the Directorate of quality Assurance, Uganda Martyrs University, Head of Department of Diplomacy and International studies in the East African school of Diplomacy, Governance and International studies Uganda Martyrs University. Prof.Okoth has also head department of History Makerere University from 1988 to 1994.At Maseno University, Prof.Okoth was a Director, Centre for the Study of Lake Victoria and its environs, having previously been acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Makerere University on numerous occasions. Prof.Okoth was also Head of Department of Disaster, Intervention and Humanitarian Assistance-Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology.

Prof.Okoth has over the years ,also been visiting scholar at institutions of academic excellence such as Nuffield College, University of Oxford; the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C ;the American studies centre-Hyderabat,India;the American studies centre-Salsburg,Austria;and the University of Sofia –Bulgaria, among others. Prof.Okoth has also received such prestigious awards as the Fulbright scholarship, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations award and the Carnegie Corporation of New York research, award, among others. Currently, Prof. Okoth is Peers across the academic world are writing a book entitled “CONTEMPORARY AFRICA AND WORLD ORDER” in his honor.  Prof.Okoth’s research interests and teaching include Diplomatic History, Foreign policy, Diplomacy, International Conflict Management, Peace and Conflict studies.

Prof. Vusi Gumede, Director, TMALI, University of South Africa

Vusi Gumede, a former Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg and a former Chief Policy Analyst in the Thabo Mbeki administration, is Professor and Director of the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute at the University of South Africa where he holds a full professorship. He has published 2 books on the political economy of South Africa – the first was published by CODESRIA Press in 2015 and the second one was published by CAMBRIA Press in 2016 – and he is finalizing a third one. He has also edited five books on the political economy of development in Africa and published numerous journal papers, book chapters and essays. He is Editor-in-Chief of Africa Insight and Africanus as well as having guest edited various special issues (including Africa Development). His postgraduate training is in policy studies and economics – he holds a PhD in Economics (completed in 2003) from the erstwhile University of Natal (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal). He has led many significant research projects (funded by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Open Society Foundation, TrustAfrica, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, International Labour Organization, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, European Commission, the National Research Foundation in South Africa, etc).

He is affiliated with numerous institutions as board or committee member or a fellow or advisor, including as member of various editorial boards of journals (i.e. the Indian Human Development Journal, the International Journal of African Renaissance Studies, AFRICANUS: Journal of Development Studies, the Journal of African Humanities and Social Science and the Journal of African Studies and Development)and as a Fellow with the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection and the Center for the Advanced Study of African Society as well as the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies.  He has also been, among other things, a Distinguished Africanist Scholar with the Institute for African Development at Cornell University and a Yale World Fellow with Yale University, among other fellowships and/or visiting scholarships. Professor Gumede also servesin various professional bodies, including as a member of the South African Association of Political Studies National Council and Afrocentricity International.

Prof. Samson Wassara, Bah rel Ghazal University, South Sudan

Samson Wassara, is Professor of Political Science and Vice Chancellor, University of Bahr El Ghazal, Wau, South Sudan. He is a published scholar, with several years of experience in the management of higher education. In various capacities, he has contributed to public policy, including the 2017 appointment by the government of South Sudan to the National Dialogue Steering Committee, in efforts to restore peace in his mother country.

Prof. Zach Levey, Haifa University, Israel

Zach Levey is professor and Chair, Department of International Relations, School of Political Science, University of Haifa. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has taught at the University of Haifa since 1997, where he is chair of the Division of International Relations. Professor Levey has also been visiting faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (1994-97) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (2009-11, 2015-16). His areas of research and teaching include the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israeli Foreign Policy and U.S.-Israeli relations. He is the author of Israel and the Western Powers: 1952-1960 and Israel in Africa: 1956-1976.

Dr. Fredrick Ogenga, Rongo University, Kenya

Fredrick Ogenga is Senior Lecturer & Head of the Department of Communication, Journalism and Media Studies, Rongo University, Kenya, the Founding Director, Center for Media, Democracy, Peace & Security (CMDPS) and Chief Executive Officer, The Peacemaker Corps Foundation, Kenya. He writes expert commentaries for the Daily Nation and Standard mainstream newspapers in Kenya, has been quoted by leading global news outlets such as the Voice of America (VOA) and participated in a UN policy round table on Media Representations of (in) Security in Africa. He has contributed several peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles on media, elections, conflict, de-radicalization and peacebuilding in Africa in journals such as Journal of African Elections, Africa Conflict and Peace-building Review, Conflict and Communication Online, Media and Democracy Journal, Global Media Journal, Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication, Africa Journal of Democracy and Governance, Congo Afrique, Semiotica – Global Journal of Semiotics among others. Dr. Ogenga is a beneficiary of the 2014 and 2016 Africa Diaspora Fellowship (ADF), recipient of the 2014 Africa Peacebuilding Network (APN) Research Grant, Carnegie Fund for Conference Attendance and APN’s 2017 East Africa Media Training Workshop Grant. He is also a recipient of the 2016 Southern Voices Network for Peace building Scholarship (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA). Ogenga has worked as a Visiting Scholar on Media and Sociology at the Institute for the Advancement of Social Sciences (IASS), Boston University, USA and was appointed a Visiting Researcher at the African Studies Center, Boston University in 2015. Currently, he has been appointed as a member of the International Panel for Exiting Violence (IPEV). At Rongo University’s Center for Media, Democracy, Peace and Security, Ogenga is championing a pan-African journalistic institutional approach as a means of preventing violent conflict. The approach is premised on Hybrid Peace Journalism (HPJ) pan-African philosophical and methodological gnosis to media representation of conflict and peacebuilding.in Africa anchored on Utu or Humanity, Umoja or Unity and Harambee or collective belonging.

Dr. Nicasius A. Check, Human Sciences Research Council, SA

Nicasius Achu Check is a Research Specialist in the Governance and Security Research desk at the Africa Institute of South Africa, a research programme of the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa. He holds a Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in Politics and International Relations from the University of Johannesburg. He has edited two books, published several chapters in books and articles in refereed Journals on conflict resolution and regional integration.  His areas of specialization and competence includes genocide studies, African philosophy, Humanities on the African continent, African development initiatives, De-colonial politics, African post-colonial state building initiatives and conflict precipitants on the continent (ethnicity, resource control and environmental insecurity).
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