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Race and Ethnicity: A Global Inquiry
2000 - 2001

Workshop on "The Economic Roots of Ethnic Conflict: The Role of Extractive Industries"

Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship Program (EPIIC) Tufts University

Sunday March 4, 9am


CONVENER:

Peter Rosenblum, Associate Director, Harvard Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School

INVITED PARTICIPANTS & Observers :

Abigail Abrash, Fellow, Harvard Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School; Former Program director RFK Center For Human Rights, Project Underground - oil and mining, environment, and human rights

Salim Ali, Guest Editor, Cultural Survival, Indigenous Peoples - conflict and extractive industries - uranium, Director, Industrial Economics

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

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

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; Ex President of the Society of Applied Anthropology - dams, logging, mines & impact on millions of involuntary resettled peoples

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

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

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

Darren Kew, EPIIC 91, Fulbright Fellow, Fletcher School PhD Candidate

Luc Lampriere, Visiting Fellow, Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, journalist, Liberation at UN, World Bank & Social Responsible Investing

Ian McIntosh, Executive Director, Cultural Survival; Author, "Aboriginal Reconciliation and the Dreaming"

Kaia Miller, Chief Marketing Officer of On The FRONTIER, a Monitor Groupcompany. Director, Country Competitive Practices Group on issues related to competitiveness and economic development; former Commercial Officer for the US State Department; board member of the Center for Middle East Competitive Strategy

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. - Maasai indigenous rights in Africa

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. - Extractive Industries Program, environment, social rights, poverty; formerly, Amnesty International Coordinator, Peru.

Elizabeth Umlas, Manager of Research, OXFAM, Boston - Humanitarian Relief & Extractive Industries

Gabrielle Watson, OXFAM/Ecuador - Texaco

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.


Workshop on Race and the Death Penalty in the U.S.

Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship Program (EPIIC) Tufts University

Sunday March 4, 9am


INVITED PARTICIPANTS & Observers :

Professor Hugo Adam Bedau, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University, author, The Death Penalty in America; Death Is Different: Studies In The Morality, Law And Politics Of Capital Punishment; editor, The Death Penalty in America: An Anthology; The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies

Matthew Campbell, Attorney, Law Offices of Peter Giannini, Los Angeles; former Law Clerk to Chief Justice United States District Court of the Virgin Islands; Death Penalty Law Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; EPIIC 1991

Joshua Rubinstein, Director, Amnesty International, Northeast Region

Professor Carol Steicker, Harvard Law School, Harvard University

Professor Larry Yackle, The Boston University Law School (pending confirmation)


Workshop on "WOMEN and ETHNIC CONFLICT"

Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship Program (EPIIC) Tufts University

Sunday March 4, 9am


CONVENER:

Angela Raven-Roberts, Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Humanitarian Aid and Director of Research and Training Programs, Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts University; Former Humanitarian Affairs Officer, Office for the Co ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations

INVITED PARTICIPANTS & Observers :

Wendy Anderson, Women Waging Peace, Harvard University

Branka Peuraca, Program Director, Partnership for Social Development based in Zagreb; Member, Partners for Democratic Change Network, promoting change management and conflict transformation for countries in transition

Svetlana Broz, Physician; Peace Activist; Belgrade & Sarajevo Author, Good People In Evil Times

Margaret Burnham, Civil Rights Attorney, Burnham and Hines; Board Member, South Africa Partners; Member, Motsuenyane Commission (to investigate human rights abuses within the African National Congress), South Africa *

Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, an artist, a scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley

Mimi Feldman, EPIIC, Tufts University

Sarah Ford, Senior director, Program, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee; Director, Capacity-Building, Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), Washington, D.C.; Former Country Director, Peace Corps, Central African Republic

Paula Fray, Editor, Saturday Star, Johannesburg, South Africa; Nieman Fellow, Harvard University *

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela who spent three years working with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. She is spending her year at the Harvard's Divinity School completing "And the Brokenhearted Shall be Healers," a book which utilizes psychology and political theory to examine the dynamic of forgiveness between perpetrators and victims.*

Tamy Guberek, EPIIC99; Coauthor,Justice Unknown, Justice Unsatisfied? Bosnian NGOs Speak about the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Kristina Hare - Physicians For Human Rights, Sierre Leone *

Elena (& Felipe Ixcot) co-founder Liga Maya Internacional, Mayan Guatemalan refugee activists and educators

Matse Keshupilwe, Mandela Fellow, South Africa, Fletcher

Suni Vyavaharkar, EPIIC

Courtney Young, EPIIC

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