/ RESEARCH CONFERENCES
ESF-UPMF-LiU Conference
Post-Crisis States
Transformation: Rethinking
the Foundations of the State
Invited Speakers
Scandic Linköping Väst, Linköping Sweden
1-5 May 2009
Chair: Ivan Samson, UPMF University, Grenoble
www.esf.org/conferences/09271
With support from
www.esf.org
Christel Alvergne (Fr), Prof., Regional Technical Advisor - Office for South and West Africa, FENU-UNCDF
(United Nations Capital Development Fund), Dakar, Senegal
After teaching and researching in several universities in France and Canada, Christel Alvergne is Technical advisor in local development. She already published many books and papers on territorial development and regional planning based on her experience in France, North America and Africa. She used to work with local authorities in many African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea Conakry, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo). She knows the principles and realities from local development in less developed countries.
Among her recent publications are:
Les images de l’aménagement du territoire, 2009, Documentation Française
Le défi des territoires, comment dépasser les disparités spatiales en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre, 2008, Karthala
Les grands textes de l’aménagement du territoire et de la décentralisation, 2003, avec Pierre Musso, Documentation Française, 399p
«Quelles politiques territoriales pour inscrire l’Afrique de l’Ouest dans la mondialisation?», Cahiers d’Outre Mer, 2007, 12 pages
« L’Afrique, une société en mutation sans avenir ? Réflexions sur le rôle de la prospective en Afrique », 2006, Territoires 2030, numéro 3.
«Le NEPAD peut-il sauver l’Afrique ? », 2003, avec D. Latouche, Futuribles, septembre
«Pour une renaissance des politiques d’aménagement du territoire en Afrique de l’Ouest», 2002, Territoires 2020, n°6
Pauline Baker (US), Dr., President of the Fund for Peace, Washington D.C.
Pauline H. Baker is President of The Fund for Peace, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to preventing war and alleviating the conditions that cause conflict. Dr. Baker is also an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and was a Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
A political scientist who earned her doctorate with distinction from UCLA in 1970, Dr. Baker did her undergraduate work at Douglass College, Rutgers University. From 1964 to 1975, she lived and worked in Nigeria, teaching at the University of Lagos. Dr. Baker also has worked in, and traveled throughout, other African countries and the developing world. She won a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to conduct research in Southern Africa and became a specialist in the U.S. response to countries in political transition.
Upon her return from eleven years residence in Nigeria, Dr. Baker became a professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committe. Her congressional experience also includes serving as Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute’s Congressional Program, an educational forum in which over 100 Senators and Representatives from both parties participated. Dr. Baker has also been a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she founded and ran a speakers breakfast series on South Africa that extended for eight years and had over 110 speakers from southern Africa address the US foreign policy community. She also published, lectured and provided congressional testimony on U.S. policy toward Africa.
In 1996, when Dr. Baker became President of The Fund for Peace, she led a successful restructuring of the organization, now a leading educational and research organization that is one of the foremost authorities on weak and failing states. She launched several innovative programs, including the internationally known Failed States Index, a global survey of conflict risk published annually in Foreign Policy magazine, and the Human Rights and Business Roundtable, a unique confidential forum launched in 2000 bringing together the extractive industry and non-governmental organizations. A member of several professional associations, Dr. Baker appears frequently on the media, lectures widely and writes on a range of international issues.
Michael Bratton (US), Prof., Department of Political Science and African Studies Center, Michigan University
Michael Bratton is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and African Studies Center at Michigan State University. He is also a founder and Director (MSU) of the Afrobarometer, a collaborative, international, survey research project that measures public opinion on democracy, markets and civil society in 18 African countries. The Afrobarometer won an award for the best data set of 2004 from the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. In 2006, Professor Bratton spent a semester at Oxford University. Bratton’s main research and teaching interests are in comparative politics (democratization, social movements, public opinion) and policy studies (development policy, development administration, evaluation research). His current research focuses on public opinion in new democracies, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, but also in broad comparative perspective.He is the author of sixty-five articles and book chapters including contributions to World Politics, The British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, The Journal of Democracy, and World Development.
Among his recent publications are:
Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective, with Nicolas van de Walle (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Public Opinion, Democracy and Market Reform in Africa, with Robert Mattes and E.Gyimah-Boadi (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Richard Caplan (UK), Prof., Department of Politics & International Relations, Oxford University
Richard Caplan isProfessor of International Relations andOfficialFellow of Linacre College. He also serves as Director of the Centre for International Studies (CIS). His principal research interests are concerned with international organisations and conflict management. His current research is focused on post-conflict state-building. Heis directing a research project on 'Exit Strategies and Peace Consolidation' that is examining the empirical experiences of, and scholarly and policy questions associated with, exit in relation to four types ofinternational operations where state-building has been a major objective: colonial administrations, peacekeeping operations,military occupations and international administrations. For details, see: http://cis.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/Projects/consolidation_peace.asp In 2009, he was appointed the UK represenative on a European research consortium that will examinenew challenges to peacekeeping and the EU's rolein multilateral crisis management.
Among his recent publications are:
‘International Interventions in Nationalist Disputes’, in John Breuilly (ed.), Oxford Handbook on the History of Nationalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
‘Governance: Rule and Reconstruction after War’, in Damian Grenfell and Paul James (eds.), Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? London: Routledge, 2008.
‘From Collapsing States to Neo-Trusteeship: The Limits to Solving the Problem of “Precarious Statehood” in the 21st Century’, Third World Quarterly, March 2007.
Europe and the Recognition of New States in Yugoslavia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005 (ppbk
2007).
International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
(ppbk 2006).
A New Trusteeship? The International Administration of War-Torn Territories, Adelphi Paper No. 341, Oxford: Oxford
University Press/International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2002.
Alain Dieckhoff (Fr), Dr. Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research, the Center for
International Studies and Research (CNRS/CERI), Paris
Holds degrees from the University of Paris X-Nanterre, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP) and a Ph.D. in political sociology from the University of Paris X-Nanterre. Member of the editorial boards of Politique et sociétés, Maghreb-Machrek and Questions internationales. Co-ordinates (with Ariel Colonomos) the “Monde” (International Issues) book series at the Presses de Sciences Po. In addition to his main research area focusing on politics and society of contemporary Israel, he also works on the transformations of contemporary nationalism. Participates in the CERI Transversal Project “Beliefs and Practices of Democracy”.
Among his recent publications are:
L’Etat d’Israël, (ed.) Paris, Fayard, 2008.
Revisiting nationalism. Theories and processes, New York, Columbia UP, 2005 (ed., with Christophe Jaffrelot).
The Politics of Belonging. Nationalism, Liberalism, and Pluralism, (ed.), Lanham, Lexington, 2004.
Israéliens et Palestiniens. La guerre en partage (ed., with Rémy Leveau), Paris, Balland, 2003.
The invention of a nation. Zionist thought and the making of modern Israel, London, Hurst, Coll. The CERI series in Comparative Politics and International Studies, 2003.
Modern Roots. Studies of National Identity (ed., with Na. Guttierez), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2001.
La nation dans tous ses Etats. Les identités nationales en mouvement, Paris, Flammarion, 2000.
Antonio Giustozzi (UK), Dr, Research Fellow, Crisis States Research Group, London School of Economics
Dr Giustozzi works on the security dimension of failed states and states in a critical situation. also researches the political aspects of insurgency and warlordism and states' response. Recent additions to his fields of study are ethnopolitics and the study of administration building in recovering states. In recent years, he has mainly been working in and on Afghanistan.
Among his recent publications are:
Giustozzi, Antonio (2008) Afghanistan: transition without end: an analytical narrative of Afghanistan. Crisis states working papers series 2, 40. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Giustozzi, Antonio and Matveeva, Anna (2008) The SCO: a regional organisation in the making. Crisis states working papers series 2, 39. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Giustozzi, Antonio (2008) Afghanistan’s National Army: the ambiguous prospects of Afghanization. Terrorism monitor, 6 (9).
Giustozzi, Antonio (2008) Bureaucratic façade and political realities of disarmament and demobilisation in Afghanistan. Conflict, Security and Development, 8 (2). pp. 169-192. ISSN 1478-1174
Giustozzi, Antonio (2008) Afghanistan: political parties or militia fronts? In: de Zeeuw, J, (ed.) From soldiers to politicians: transforming rebel movements after civil war. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, CO, USA, pp. 179-204. ISBN 9781588265807
Giustozzi, Antonio (2008) Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop : The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan. Columbia University Press, London, UK. ISBN 1850658730
Jochen Hippler (Germany), Prof. Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg-Essen
Jochen HIPPLER is Senior Researcher at INEF since 2000. He was professor of International Relations and Foreign Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen from 2003 to 2005 and received his post-doctoral “habilitation” in International Relations in 2005. From 1993 to 1995 Jochen Hippler was Director of the Transnational Institute (TNI), Amsterdam. He is co-chairperson of NAVEND. From 1991 to 1999 he was a contributing editor to the “Middle East Report” (MERIP) in Washington. Furthermore, he is advisor to the German Foreign Office, the Ministry for Development Cooperation and the German Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations on topics of violent conflict and Western-Muslim dialogue. His main areas of research and publications are: conflict and political violence in the Middle East and Central/South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Turkey/Kurdish question), military interventions and post-conflict nation-building, political Islam, political culture and identity in the processes of regional conflict and globalization. Jochen Hippler is co-editor of the prestigious yearly “Peace Report”.
Among his recent publications are:
War, Repression, Terrorism – Political Violence and Civilization in Western and Muslim Societies (2005);
Islam and Violence (in German), in: B. Menke et al (eds.); Kulturelle Vielfalt – Diskurs um die Demokratie, Schwalbach (2006);
“Civil Society, State, and New Conflicts Expectations and Challenges for a Civilian Peace Service” (in German), in: Konsortium Ziviler Friedensdienst: Mehr Frieden Wagen, Bonn (2006).
Nation-Building – A Key Concept for Peaceful Conflict Transformation?,(Ed.) London (2005). Forthcoming is his book From Morocco to Afghanistan – War and Peace in the Broader Middle East (German edition 2007, English edition 2008).
John Igué (Benin), Former minister, Prof., National University of Benin
Professor John Igue is a well-known geograph who advised several States and Regional organisations in Africa as well as international institutions. He is the Professor at the National University of Benin, Former Minister of Industry and Small-Medium Size Enterprises, has been Advisor to the OECD’s Sahel and West Africa Club and is now Scienfic Director of Laboratoire d'Analyse Régionale et d'Expertise Sociale (Laboratory for Regional Analysis and Social Expertise) (LARES, based in Cotonou). His research relevant for the conference deals with the weakness of the States in Africa based on their specific history, their young age and the fact that most of the problems Africa is facing cannot be addressed by national policies, but by multi-state organizations.
Among his recent publications are:
The Beninese of diaspora: the case study of Ghana, Ivory Coast and Gabon. (UNFPA), 2008 – ATG, Cotonou (Bénin); West Africa,
Between Space, Power, and Society: A Geography of Uncertainty. Karthala, Paris, 2006
Nation-States faced with Regional Integration in West Africa: The Case of Benin. Karthala, Paris, 2006
The Territory and State in Africa, the Spatial Dimensions of Development Karthala, Paris, 1995
Roland Marchal (Fr), Research fellow National Center for Scientific Research / Center for International Studies and Research (CNRS/CERI), Paris
Roland Marchal holds degrees in mathematics and social sciences from the University of Strasbourg, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the University of Paris VI. His research focuses on the economies and conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. He participates in the CERI Transversal Project “Historical Trajectories of the state”. He also teaches at Sciences Po, Paris (Institute of Political science) “Africa and violence” (undergraduate program) and at University Paris I “Africa in globalization” (Master’s level). His research interests are : New actors in Africa (Chinese, Indians, Brazilians, Koreans…); Armed conflicts in Central Africa and the countries of the Horn of Africa; Power politics in Africa.
Among his recent publications are:
Guerres et sociétés. Etats et violence après la Guerre froide, Paris, Karthala, Paris, 2003, (edited with Pierre Hassner).
"Pax africana? Le nouvel interventionnisme libéral", (Ed.) with Richard Banégas, special issue of Politique africaine, n° 98, juin 2005.
"Les premières dames", (Ed.) Politique africaine, avec Christine Messiant, n° 95, octobre 2004.
Doubaï: cité globale, CNRS-Editions, Paris, 2001.
Les chemins de la guerre et de la paix. Fins de conflits en Afrique australe et orientale?, avec Christine Messiant, Paris, Karthala, 1997.
Diallo Massaer, Head of Unit Governance, Conflict Dynamics, Peace & Security at the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC/OCDE)
Is a political scientist (he graduated from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) and is also professor of philosophy He was a researcher at the Centre d’étude des civilisations in Dakar and at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. He also held a professorship at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar; Senegal