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Race and Ethnicity: A Global Inquiry
An International Symposium

Workshop: The Economic Roots of Ethnic Conflict: The Role of Extractive Industries
Sunday, March 4
9:00am

Convener:

Peter Rosenblum, workshop Convener,
addresses workshop participants
Peter Rosenblum, Associate Director, Harvard Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School

Participants:

Salim Ali, Guest Editor, Cultural Survival Quarterly

Karen Ballentine, Research Coordinator, Project on Economic Agendas in Civil Wars, International Peace Academy; Former Officer, Preventing Deadly Conflict Project, Carnegie Endowment for Peace

Muhammed Bulama, Fulbright Fellow, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Sunday Dare, General/Online Editor, The News and Tempo, Nigeria; Author, "Voices from the Gulag: Guerrilla Journalism in Nigeria" (forthcoming)

Christian Dietrich, Independent Diamond Expert; Co-author, "Angola's War Economy: The Role of Oil and Diamonds" (written statement)

Theodore E. Downing, Chair, International Network on Displacement and Social Development; Research Professor of Social Development, Arizona Research Laboratories, University of Arizona

Arvind Ganesan, Director, Business and Human Rights Program, Human Rights Watch, Washington, D.C.

Heeten Kalan, Founder and Director, The South African Exchange Program on Environmental Justice

Gregory Katz, European Bureau Chief, Dallas Morning News; Writer and Co-Editor, "Hidden Wars Series" (Sudan, Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Congo, Kurds)

Ian McIntosh, Executive Director, Cultural Survival; Author, Aboriginal Reconciliation and the Dreaming: Warramiri Yolngu and the Quest for Equality

Kaia Miller, Chief Marketing Officer and Director of Country Competitive Practices Group, On The FRONTIER, a Monitor Group company; Former Commercial Officer, U.S. State Department

Natan Obed, Tufts University Senior - Independent Research Project on the Labrador Inuit

Meitamei Olol-Dapash, Director, Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition (MERC), Nairobi, Kenya & Washington, D.C.

Lant Pritchett, Former Official, World Bank; Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Bryan Rich, Producer and Director, "Breaking the Codes: Genocide and Truth in Burundi"

Jake Sherman, EPIIC, '96; Program Officer, Economic Agendas in Civil Wars International Peace Academy

Keith Slack, OXFAM, Washington, D.C.; Former Coordinator, Amnesty International Peru

Elizabeth Umlas, Director of Research, OXFAM, Boston

Abiodun Williams, Former Special Assistant to the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, United Nations Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, (Haiti, Macedonia)

Joseba Zulaika, Director, Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada-Reno.


PROGRAMS

Sunday, March 4

The Economic Roots of Ethnic Conflict: The Role of Extractive Industries

Women and Ethnic Conflict

Race and the Death Penalty

Indigenous People: Development and Cultural Survival

The Politics of Identity and Difference in a Global Context

Musical Celebration featuring Hickory Stew, The Joel LaRue-Smith Quartet and Balatón

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