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Associate Research Professor of Humanitarian Studies

Education:

BA, University of Michigan;
MA and PhD in anthropology, Boston University.

Professional Activities:

Research Fellow, African Studies Center, Boston University (1995-2008); Consultant, The World Bank (2005-2008); Program Evaluation Expert, Conflict Management Partners (2007-2008); Advisor, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UNDP (2007-2008); Consultant, The Brookings Institution (2006); International Evaluator, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2004-2006); Youth Research Specialist, Education Development Center (2003-2006); Senior Technical Advisor, Youth at Risk, CARE (2001-2005); Numerous other consulting assignments with organizations such as UNESCO, UNICEF, UNHCR, Conflict Management Group, Catholic Relief Services, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, Save the Children, and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Curriculum Vitae:

• CV [PDF]

2007-2008 Academic Year:

Spring 2008

• DHP P204m - Qualitative Research In Communities Affected by War
• DHP P297 - African Communities in Crisis: Perspectives of War and Its Aftermath

Previous Courses:

Spring 2007

• DHP P204m - Qualitative Research In Communities Affected by War
• DHP P297 - African Communities in Crisis: Perspectives of War and Its Aftermath

Research Interests:

Youth, education, peace education, conflict negotiation, security, child soldier, urbanization, human rights and coordination issues in war and post-war contexts; The role of popular culture in youth lives during and after wars; Intersections between youth, religion, and urbanization in post-war settings; Burundi, Kosovo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Southern Sudan, Timor-Leste.

Faculty Research Profile:

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Books:

• Islands of Education: Schooling, Civil War, and Southern Sudanese (1983-2004) (2005);
• Co-ordinating Education During Emergencies and Reconstruction: Challenges and Responsibilities Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO (2004);
• Parallel Worlds: Rebuilding the Education System in Kosovo: A Case Study (with Peter Buckland). Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, and Washington, DC: The World Bank.(2004);
• Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, Studies in Forced Migration Series, Volume 8. (2001).
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  (For information on the 2003 Margaret Mead Award)

Articles and chapters in books include:

• West Africa’s Youth Employment Challenge: The Case of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire. Vienna: United Nations Industrial Development Organization. (2007);
• “Embracing the Margins: Working with Youth amid War and Insecurity.” In Too Poor for Peace? Poverty, Conflict and Security in the 21st Century, Lael Brainard and Derek Chollet, eds. Washington: Brookings Institution Press. (2007);
• “Fearing Africa’s Young Men: Male Youth, Conflict, Urbanization and the Case of Rwanda.” In The Other Half of Gender: Men’s Issues in Development, Ian Bannon and Maria Correia, eds. Washington, DC: World Bank. (2006);
• “In the Shadow of Genocide: Rwanda’s Youth Challenge,” Troublemakers or Peacemakers? Youth and Post-Accord Peacebuilding (2006);
• “Youth, War, and Urban Africa: Challenges, Misunderstandings, and Opportunities,” Youth in Developing World Cities (2003);
• “On Hidden Ground: One Coexistence Strategy in Central Africa” (co-author), Imagine Coexistence: Restoring Humanity after Violent Ethnic Conflict (2003);
• Children, Education and War: Reaching EFA Objectives in Countries Affected by Conflict. Washington, DC: Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit Working Paper No. 1, World Bank. (2002);
• Youth: Care & Protection of Children in Emergencies: A Field Guide (2002).
• “Peace Education and Refugee Youth.” In Learning for a Future: Refugee Education in Developing Countries, Jeff Crisp, Christopher Talbot, and Daiana B. Cipollone, eds. Geneva: UNHCR. (2001).