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Academic Dean and The Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies

Education

Licences in Diplomatic Science and in Political Science, University of Ghent;
PhD in Political Science, Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, University of Geneva.

Professional Activities

Taught at Brown University, New Hampshire College and Graduate School of Development Studies, Geneva. Winner of 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship. Winner of 1999 Herskovits Award for most outstanding book on Africa. Regularly consults for multilateral and bilateral aid agencies and ministries of foreign affairs, as well as NGOs. Serves on the Editorial board for Kumarian Press and the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. On sabbatical during academic year 2006/7.

Programs & Centers

• Institute for Human Security

Courses

Fall 2009

• DHP P229 - Development and Human Rights

Research Interests

Political and social dynamics in Burundi and Rwanda, Innovations in development aid; Post-conflict assistance and peacebuilding; development and human rights.

Faculty Research Profile

“Can one work at the local level to affect state-society relations? Can you make local progress on these things, and can outside influence and money be used to create a small opening for the formation of collective citizenship?” Read More »

Consultancy Reports

• The Introduction of a Modernized Gacaca for Judging Suspects of Participation in the Genocide and the Massacres of 1994 in Rwanda
• A New Look at Civil Society Support in Rwanda?
• Operationalizing the Dutch Great Lakes Regional Strategy
• Le Project Ubudehe: Une Reflexion et Evaluation Prospectives

• Wake Up! Some Personal Reflections and Policy Proposals

• The Burundi Leadership Training Program: A Prospective Assessment
• A Transitional Local Government Support Program Draft Synthesis Proposal to DFID
• A Brief Discussion of Donor Support to Local Governance in Burundi

Books

• Life After Violence. A People’s Story of Burundi, (2009)
• Human Rights and Development (2004)
• Aide Complice? Aide au Développement au Rwanda Avant le Génocide (1999)
• The Influence of Aid in Situations of Violent Conflict (1999)
• Aiding Violence. The Development Enterprise in Rwanda (1998)
• The Hunger Report 1995 (1996)
• The International Organization of Hunger (1994)

Articles and chapters in books includes

• “Silence And Dialogue: Burundians’ Alternatives To Transitional Justice.” (with Ann Nee) in Rosalynd Shaw (ed.) Localizing Transitional Justice. Stanford, Stanford University Press
• Ex-combatants in Burundi: Why they joined, why they left, how they fared. Washington DC., World Bank MDRP Working Paper no. 3, Aug. 2007
• “Development and Security: Genealogy and Typology of an Evolving International Policy Area” in: Brauch, Hans Günter et al. ; Grin, John; Mesjasz, Czeslaw; et al. (eds.): Globalisation and Environmental Challen¬ges: Reconceptualising Security in the 21st Century. Hexagon Series on Human and Envi¬ronmental Security and Peace, vol. 3 (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2007)
• "Justice in Rwanda: International Aims and Local Perceptions," (co-author) Global Governance (2003)
• "The Development/Peacebuilding Nexus: A Typoology and History of Changing Paradigms," Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (2002)
• "Reading the Rwandan Genocide," International Studies Review (2001)
• "Ethical and Stategic Choices and the New Post-Conflict Agenda: the International Community in Rwanda after the Genocide," Third World Quarterly
• "Global Malnutrition and Hunger Since the End of the Cold War," Scaling Up, Scaling Down: Capacities for Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries (forthcoming)
• "Think Large and Act Small: Toward a New Paradigm for Development NGOs," (co-author) World Development (2000)
• "Mass Violence in Burundi and Rwanda: Different Paths to Similar Outcomes," Comparative Politics (1999)