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California State University, Sacramento
College of Health & Human Services
Center for African Peace & Conflict Resolution
In collaboration with Pan African Studies Program
Nineteenth (19TH) Annual Africa/Diaspora Conference on
AFRICA HEALTH, PEACE, SECURITY AND
DEVELOPMENT
Preliminary Conference Program
April 29 - May 1, 2010
California Sacramento University, Sacramento
University Union
Sacramento, California
OPEN TO PUBLIC!!
Table of Contents
Page
Acknowledgements, Inquiries and Corrections ............................................................ 2
Conference at a Glance ................................................................................................. 3
General Information ...................................................................................................... 6
Campus Map ................................................................................................................. 7
Registration Form ......................................................................................................... 8
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Acknowledgements
Conference Planning Committee
Ernest Uwazie, Chair
Chauncey Ridley-Conference Raporteur
Patrick Cannon
Data Barata
Patricia Holmes
Adrienne Thompson
Sylvester Bowie
Beatrice Russell
Marlyn Jones
Maggie Beddow
Boatamo Mosupyoe
Toni Tinker
Kaylene Richards-Ekeh
Student Assistants
Elsie Guerrero
Hossana Paida
TBA
Direct Inquiries/Corrections
Professor Ernest Uwazie, Director
916-278-6282/ fax: 916-278-3429;
Email: uwazieee@csus.edu
Website: www.csus.edu/org/capcr
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19th Annual Africa/Diaspora Conference
April 29 May 1, 2010
Conference at a Glance
Thursday, April 29, 2010 Charles W. Gossett
CSU-Sacramento; TBA
1:00p.m.- 6:00p.m. REGISTRATION Chair: Patrick Cannon, CSU, Sacramento
Redwood Room, University Union,
first floor 3:00-5:00p.m.: Plenary B: Peace Education
Project in the Niger Delta of Nigeria:
1:00p.m. - 2:45p.m.: Plenary A: HIV-AIDS Challenges & Prospects
Prevention, Treatment and Administration
in AFRICA & US: 30 Years of Best Integrating peace education in secondary
Practices. schools in Nigeria, Ernest Uwazie,
CAPCR-CSU-Sacramento
Bethany Young Holt,
UC Berkeley School of Public Health: TBA Developing an effective peace education
curriculum in high schools, Pam Bodnar,
Neil Flynn Marsh, Jr. High School, Chico, and
University of California, Davis, Center for Sarah Bodnar
AIDS Research, Education and Services;
TBA TBA
Chair: Sylvester Bowie, CAPCR CSU,
Donna Defreitas, UC Davis; TBA
Sacramento
Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:20a.m. OPENING by Ernest Uwazie,
Director, CAPCR
5:00p.m. - 6:00p.m. Reception: University
Union Redwood Room 9:25a.m. Welcome Remarks
▪ Sylvester Bowie, CAPCR Board Chair
Friday, April 30, 2010 ▪ Boatamo Mosupyoe, Director Pan African
Studies & Cooper Woodson College
8:30a.m. – 5:00p.m. Roberto C. Torres, President, ASI
REGISTRATION: University Union ▪Patricia Clark Ellis, Interim Dean,
Redwood Room College of Health & Human Services
▪ Joseph F. Sheley, Provost & VP
9:00a.m. Academic Affairs
African drumming: TBA
9:55 a.m. Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Jean -Pierre Bayard, CSU, Sacramento
9:10a.m. Call to Order: Marlyn Jones, CSU,
Sacramento
10:00am Plenary B
Keynote 1: Rebuilding and reconstruction of
Haiti post 1/12 earthquake: challenges and
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prospects, Dr. Michele D. Pierre-Louis, Titus Oyeyemi, African
Executive Director of FOKAL Foundation, Projects/Foundation for Peace and Love
Port au Prince, Haiti, and former Prime Initiatives, Hazel Crest, Illinois
Minister of Haiti.
School Crimes: The Twist of School –
Keynote 2: Africa health, peace, security Community Relations in Uganda, S.A.
and development, Dr. Chinua Akukwe, Oyebade and J.S. Owoeye, Kampala
George Washington University African International University, Kampala, Uganda
Center for Health & Human Security,
Washington, DC, Introduced by Don Protecting the Female Child from Sexual
Taylor, CSU-Sacramento Abuse in Northern Uganda, Kayode
Olatunbosun Fayokun, Kampala
11: 50am-1:00pm - Lunch International University, Kampala, Uganda
(on your own; see list of campus eateries)
Integrating the Robust Malaria Prevention
1:00- 3:00pm Plenary C Techniques and Literacy Education: A case
of Azara-Ubo Autonomous Community in
New Choices for Health Care Delivery: A Sub-Sahara Africa, Joy E. Abakporo
Multifaceted Approach to reducing Health Adult Learning and Literacy Center, Lagos,
Disparities: Pluralistic Medicine in Nigeria
Southwest Uganda: Health- Seeking
Behaviors and Healthcare Perspectives, Role of Technical Education in Promoting
Julia Hanebrink, Christian Brothers Peace and Development for Good Health in
University, Memphis, Tennessee, & Joy Africa-Case Study In Nigeria, Adekola
Nolte, Boston University, Boston. Adekunle, Federal College of Education
(Technical), Asaba, Nigeria
Testing psychological intervention through
art with Ugandan child soldiers and Gender inaccessibility to economic
abductees, Teri Mason, Christian Brothers resources: The bane of security and
University, Memphis, Tennessee, & Lanie development, Ogugua Ikpeze, Nnamdi
Smith, Prat Institute, Brooklyn, NY Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria.
Facility versus home based services for Chair: TBA
improving update of HIV counseling and
testing (HCT) among rural populations in 3:15-5:15pm: Concurrent Panel 2: Health,
Uganda: A comparative analysis, Edgar Peace and conflicts
Mulogo, Mbarara University of Science &
Technology, Mbarara, Uganda Constitutional Confusion on Health and
Social Guarantees: Nigeria Emasculated in
3:00-3:15pm: Break: refreshment provided. Legal Development Dilemma, Carol Arinze
Umobi Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka
3:15-5:15pm: Concurrent Panel 1
Youth, health and violence prevention Social Supports, Leisure Activities and
education Health among Old Men and Women in two
Post Conflict Yoruba Communities:
Youth Violence in Nigeria’s Sixth Republic: Agunbiade Ojo Melvin, Babatunde
Pedagogies for Youth Peace and Nation Ekundayo, & Titilayo Ayotunde, Obafemi
Building Awolowo University, IIe-Ife, Nigeria
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Assessment of the Impact of Public Policy
Making Processes on Peace-building, Africa diaspora and the Nigerian public
Public Participation and Democracy: the space: V. Adefemi Isumonah, University of
Case of Ghana’s Health Financing Policy Ibadan, Nigeria.
with Specific Reference to the Generic
Process Model, Felix Ntim, Ruhr Chair: TBA
Univeristaet, Bochum-Germany and
University of the Western Cape, Cape 8:45am-10:45am Concurrent Panel 4:
Town- South Africa. Health, peace, gender rights
A gendered analysis of health, peace, Conflict Resolution through Participatory
security and development in an era of Vulnerability analysis of conflict in oil
increasing (in)security: the case of Jamaica, bearing communities in Delta State, Nigeria,
Marlyn Jones, CSU-Sacramento Larry Arafiena, Family Hope Association,
Asaba, Nigeria, & Matthew Okwaje,
Africa’s health crisis in a globalizing world: Participatory Initiative for Peace &
rethinking strategies for Africa’s Development, Nigeria
development, Maryam Omolara Quadri,
University of Lagos, Nigeria Dyslexia: A Silent Threat to Peace, Security
and Development in Nigeria?: Don John O.
Chair: TBA Omale, Salem University, Lokoja, Nigeria
5:30-9:00pm.: Sacramento site seeing and Females Non-Reproductive Health Rights
Dinner (optional, non host) Issues in Nigeria: The Custom, Morality and
Poverty, Ogugua Ikpeze, Nnamdi Azikiwe,
Saturday, May 1 University, Awka, Nigeria
8:30am-3:00pm Registration contd.
Redwood, University Union. Refreshments Peace, security and development plan for
provided. post-conflict northern Uganda: Transition
from emergency relief to revitalized health
8:45am-10:45am: Concurrent Panel 3: care delivery, Owolabi Babalola Isaac,
Critical Issues in HIV/AIDS & Prevention University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and
Babatunde Ekundayo Oluwaremilekun,
Impact of HIV/AIDS and malaria on the University of Ibadan, Nigeria
economic development of Congo-
Brazzaville: Francois IBARA, Denying Armed Robbers Medical Attention:
Ministry of Planning and National Implications for Human Rights and for
Development, Congo Brazzaville Communal Peace, Chukwugozie Maduka,
University of Benin, Nigeria
Experience of HIV/AIDS Patients in the
Employment Industry and the Need for a Chair: TBA
Quick Legal Intervention: Nigerian
Experience: A.A. Akinbuwa, Obafemi 10:45am-12:00pm: Plenary C
Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria A Roundtable: Critical Issues in Health,
peace and security in Africa/Diaspora
Workplace HIV/AIDS Prevention & Discussants: TBA
Management Program for the KNUST
Hospital Harriet Takyi, Kwame Nkrumah 12:00pm-12:45pm: Lunch; non host
University of Science & Technology,
Kumasi (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.
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12:45pm-1:30pm: Conference summary and
conclusion Awardees: Dr. Chinua Akukwe, George
Washington University Medical Center,
Panelists: TBA Washington, DC.
Dr. Michele Pierre-Louis, FOKAL-Port-
Chair: TBA au-Prince, Haiti
Dr. Rhonda Rios Kravitz, Sacramento City
6:30pm-1:00am: Peace Awards College
Dinner/Dance---African food/music!!!! Ms. Nunu Kidane, Priority Africa Network,
California State University, Sacramento Bay Area.
University Union Ballroom
Conference Information
Parking
Ask for how to purchase parking permit from information kiosk, at either entrance to Sacramento
State campus. No permit is required for May 1, Saturday.
Hotels
Goodnite Inn: 25 Howe Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95826. Phone (916) 386-8408.
Price: $45.99 per night. Continental Breakfast included. Mention that you are a Sacramento State
guest.
Motel 6: 7850 College Town Drive, Sacramento, CA 95826. Phone (916) 383-8110. Price:
$46.04 Weekday; 57.24 weekend/ per night (taxes included).
Larkspur Landing Hotel: 555 Howe Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95826. Phone (916) 646-1212.
Price $84.per night (plus tax ). Sacramento State rate includes breakfast, wireless internet, fitness
center, and laundry.
Sacramento Airport Transportation
Super Shuttle: 1-800-258-3826
FEEL FREE TO CHECK ONLINE FOR POSSIBLE LOWER
Hotel/Transportation RATES!!
Conference Proceedings/Publication
All presenters are expected to subject a revised electronic copy (MS Word file) of their papers in
publishable quality by June 22, 2009, for inclusion in the conference proceedings/publication.
Select papers will be published in a special book reader volume.
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PLAN FOR A 20 MINUTE PRESENTATION
BRING 10-15 COPIES OF YOUR PAPER
California State University, Sacramento Campus Map
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AFRICA HEALTH, PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT
April 29 - May 1, 2010
Conference Registration Form
NAME
Mailing Address
Phone Number ( ) FAX ( )
Email
Equipment request (for presentation): Visual Aids [ ] VCR [ ] Overhead [ ]
Other (Specify) _________________________________________________________
*Registration Fee [ ] $50.00 (Required of all!)
May 1, 2010
Peace Awards Dinner [ ] $35.00 [add $5 at door]
~or~
May 1, 2010
Peace Awards Dinner & Reception [ ] $50.00 [add $5 at door]
*Add $5 if paid after April 10
Total Amount Enclosed $___________
Please charge my [ ] Mastercard [ ] Visa Card#____________________________
Name on Card_______________________________________Exp. Date___________
Signature______________________________________Date_____________________
Make Check or Money Order payable to: CAPCR-University Enterprises, Inc.
Mail completed Registration form and fees before April 10, 2010 to:
Ernest E. Uwazie, Director
Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution
California State University, Sacramento
6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6085
Ph. (916) 278-6282 ♦ FAX (916) 278-3429
email:uwazieee@csus.edu
Website: www.csus.edu/org/capcr
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