Experts List

Experts List Abu-Laban | Anderson | Bauböck | Berman | Bertrand | Bhargava | Boulden | Carens | Choudhry | Csergo | Eisenberg | Ejobowah | Gagnon | Ghai | Good | Haklai | He | Jefremovas | Keating | Kingsbury | Knop | Kymlicka | Laliberté | Last | Leuprecht, C. | Leuprecht, P. | Manuh | McGarry | Modood | Moore | Nootens | O'Leary | Seymour | Shachar | Simeon | Triadafilopoulos | Zahar Yasmeen Abu-Laban University of Alberta, Canada, Political Science • • • • • • • • Canadian and comparative dimensions of gender and ethnic politics Nationalism, globalization and processes of racialization Immigration policies and politics Citizenship theory Gender and the nation-state Gender and representation of ethnocultural and visible minorities in party politics (Canada) Role of the media in shaping views about minorities and politics (including Muslim-Canadians) Mexican immigration to the United States David Anderson African Studies Centre, Oxford University, Britain, History • • • • • • • History and Politics of Africa Ethnicity and governance in Africa Race and identity in Kenya The Cold War in Africa Drug wars in Africa Khat consumption in Africa Kenyan history and politics Rainer Bauböck Austrian Academy of Science, Political theorist • • • • • • Normative political theory and comparative research on democratic citizenship European integration, migration Nationalism and minority rights Integration and pluralism in societies of immigration Citizenship in the European Union Contested political boundaries and changing conceptions of citizenship Bruce Berman Queen's University Canada, Political Studies • • • • • • Political economy of the colonial state in Africa and its impact on African societies Development of modern African ethnicities and their political expression Ethnicity and globalization Kenya Ghana Nigeria Jacques Bertrand University of Toronto, Canada, Political Science • • • • Indonesian politics Southeast Asia Religion, political violence and nationalism and ethnic conflict in Indonesia Democratization and the status of ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia (Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia) Rajeev Bhargava Director, Centre for Study of the Developing Sciences, University of New Delhi, India, Political Science/Social Science/Philosophy • • • • • • • Political theory and Indian politics Philosophy of the Indian constitution Truth commissions Specificities of Indian democracy Indian federalism Rights of Dalits Morally appropriate responses of the state to religious and cultural diversity in deeply divided societies Jane Boulden Royal Military College of Canada, International Relations • • • • United Nations, particularly UN efforts to deal with conflict in the post-Cold War environment Regional organizations dealing with conflict in Africa The UN and terrorism UN experience in Congo, Somalia and Bosnia Joseph H. Carens University of Toronto, Canada, Political Science • • • • • • Questions about justice, equality, and freedom in democratic communities Normative issues raised by the movement of people across state borders Immigration and multiculturalism Ethnic and cultural diversity Ethics of immigration Immigration, democracy and citizenship Sujit Choudhry University of Toronto, Law, Political Science • • • • • • • • • Constitutional law and theory Multinational federations Constitutional amendment and secession Public policy development Constitutional design in multiethnic societies Constitutionalism, nationalism and the state The Supreme Court of Canada The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Judicial activism Zsusza Csergo Queen's University, Canada, Political Studies • • • • • • • • • Nationalism and the politics of ethnicity Central and East European politics Majority-minority conflict and cooperation The politics of language use Democracy and democratization European integration Nationalism in contemporary European politics, with particular focus on post-communist Central and Eastern Europe Changing forms of nationalism and territoriality in the enlarging European Union Majority-minority conflict over language use in Romania and Slovakia Avigail Eisenberg University of Victoria, Canada, Political Science • • • • • • Democratic theory and Canadian politics with an emphasis on pluralism and minority rights The political history of democratic pluralism Public policy and minority rights, in Canada and comparatively Aboriginal rights issues in Canada Sexual discrimination and minority rights in Canada How political institutions assess identity in the context of legal and political controversies about minority rights John Boye Ejobowah Wilfred Laurier University, Canada, Global Studies • • • • Normative evaluation of group claims to equality Institutional arrangements for responding to group claims for equality Alternative federal institutions for equal accommodation of groups (with special emphasis on Nigeria) State failure in Nigeria Alain-G. Gagnon Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, Political Science • • • • Quebec and Canadian politics, with a special emphasis on multinational federalism Nationalism, and identity politics Normative approaches and theories to better account for federal societies in the Western world Impact of immigration on multinational federations Yash Ghai Professor Emeritus, University of Hong Kong • • • Constitutions arising out of conflict, particularly ethnic conflict Human rights Political and constitutional issues of autonomy, particularly in the context of Greater China Kristin Good Dalhousie University, Canada, Political Science • Role of municipalities in ethno-cultural relations in Canada • • • • • • Urban governance and policy Intergovernmental relations Multilevel governance Ethnic relations Immigration and multiculturalism policy Municipal responses to high levels of immigration within eight municipalities in the Greater Toronto Area and the Greater Vancouver Regional District Oded Haklai Queen's University, Canada, Political Studies • • • • • • • Ethnic politics and conflict Nationalism Ethnic civil society mobilization Ethnicity and the state in Israel and the Middle East Political activism of the Jewish settlers' movement in Israel and the West Bank Mobilization of the Palestinian citizens of Israel Impact of state-society relations on peacemaking in the Middle East Baogang He Deakin University, Australia, Political Science/International Studies • • • • • Democratization of China Democratic implication of civil society in China Nationalism, national identity and democratization in China Democratic governance and national identity conflict in East Asia Federalism and ethnic conflicts in Asia Villia Jefremovas Queen's University, Canada, Development Studies/Anthropology • • • • • • Ethnic politics and post-independence violence in Rwanda The Igorots in Southeast Asia How non-western societies are affected by, cope with and transform social, economic and political change from a community level perspective Ethnicity, resource management and governance Peace building and reconstruction Health, gender, and research methodologies in the fields of development and public policy Michael Keating European University Institute, Italy, Social/Political Science • • • • • • Urban and regional politics and nationalism European integration and the nationalities question Federalism and the balance of power in European States The Basque conflict Reform of the Bosnian constitution Devolution in the United Kingdom Benedict Kingsbury Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice at NYU Law School, United States • • • • • • • • • • • International law Participation and transparency in global governance Trade environment disputes and the United Nations Accountability, legitimacy and democracy in international governance Global administrative law/li> Rights of indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples and international law Indigenous issues in New Zealand, Asia, United States Contemporary political theory and indigenous peoples and implications for international law practises International financial institutions (particularly the World Bank) Indigenous peoples and involuntary resettlement Karen Knop University of Toronto, Canada, Law/International Relations • • • • • Feminism and international law Gender and nationality Public international law, with a focus on issues of interpretation, identity and participation Diversity and self-determination in international law Gender and human rights Will Kymlicka Queen's University, Canada, Political Philosophy • • • • • • Theory and practice of liberal multiculturalism in the West Norms and standards of international organizations regarding treatment of minorities Relationship between multiculturalism and liberal-democratic values Canadian model of diversity European norms of minority rights Multiculturalism and the welfare state André Laliberté University of Ottawa, Canada, Political Studies • • • • • • • Politics of China and Taiwan Politics and religion Identity and nationalism Welfare regimes in East Asia Evolution of disagreements over national identity and sovereignty between China and Taiwan Asia-specific systems of meaning and values that can be reconciled with Western-based ideas of citizenship Justice and inclusiveness David Last Royal Military College of Canada, Political Science • • • • • • Canadian armed forces officer specializing in third party intervention in protracted social conflict Conflict de-escalation in peacekeeping operations Economic peace-building, political economy and security/li> Peacekeeping and negotiation Post-conflict reconstruction Special forces • • • Security sector governance Transnational policing Israel-Palestine Christian Leuprecht Royal Military College of Canada/Queen's University, Political Studies • • • • • • • • • • Ethnic conflict in Mauritius Post-conflict reconstruction in Bosnia- Herzegovina Political implications of demographic changes, especially insofar as they affect the security sector Conflict, democratic governance, and federalism Managing diversity in the armed forces Federalism and federal governance Public, and fiscal policy Ethnic conflict, relationship between federal governance in multinational countries and the security sector Defence management in small-island states Post-conflict reconstruction Peter Leuprecht Université du Québec à Montréal, Political Science • • • • International law and human rights Council of Europe Minority rights issues in European Union Domestic implementation of international human rights law in Canada Takyiwaa Manuh Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana • • • • • • • Women's rights and empowerment issues in Ghana and Africa African development issues The state, gender and women in Ghana Contemporary African migrations African higher education Ghanaian migrants and issues of identity, ethnic and national Ghanaian Canadians John McGarry Queen's University, Canada, Political Studies • • • • • • • • • • • • Design of political institutions, and of police forces, in divided societies Power-sharing institutions Ethnic and national conflict State responses to ethnic and national diversity Consociationalism Federalism Integrationism Asymmetrical federalism European integration and minority nationalism Politics of Iraq Politics of Northern Ireland Electoral systems in divided societies • Policing divided societies Tariq Modood Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol, Britain, Sociology/Politics/Public Policy • • • • • • • • • • British Asian Muslims The politics of being Muslim in Britain and the West Politics of secular multiculturalism and ethnicity Theory and politics of racism Racial equality Multiculturalism and secularism, with especial reference to British Asian Muslims Ethnic identities, national identities and the 'second generation' Ethnic disadvantage and progress in employment and education Comparisons within and between Western Europe and North America Political theory and sociology of multiculturalism and secularism Margaret Moore Queen's University, Canada, Political Studies • • • • • • • Distributive justice Nationalism and multiculturalism Citizenship theory Cosmopolitanism Ethics of multiculturalism and nationalism Identity claims and multiculturalism Relationship between multiculturalism, nationalism and global justice Geneviève Nootens Université du Quebéc à Chicoutimi, Canada • • • • • Normative issues of democratic governance of ethnically diverse societies Self-government arrangements for national minorities, particularly First Nations (Innu treaty negotiations in Quebec) Accommodating complex diversity in Canada and the European Union Relationships between democracy, sovereignty and political obligations in a context of globalization Erosion of state autonomy and social/cultural pluralization of societies Brendan O'Leary University of Pennsylvania, United States, Political Science • • • • • • • • • • Ethnic politics and conflict Power sharing systems Political violence and terrorism Nationalism National and ethnic conflict regulation National self-determination Constitutional design Democratization Electoral systems and human rights Empirical research on political violence and Northern Ireland, Kurdistan and Iraq Michel Seymour Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Political Philosophy • • • • • • Collective rights in multination states Nation-states and national minorities Governance and policy-making in the European Union Rethinking political recognition Conditions of diversity in multinational democracies Philosophy of language Ayelet Shachar University of Toronto, Canada, Law/Political Science • • • • • • • • • Citizenship and immigration law Highly skilled migrants Transnational legal processes State and religion Family law Multi-level governance regimes Group rights Gender equality Religious accommodation and women's rights Richard Simeon University of Toronto, Canada, Political Science • • • • Canadian politics and public policy, with a special emphasis on federalism, the constitution and intergovernmental relations Federalism, democracy and constitutionalism in divided societies Constitutional development in South Africa Institutions and practices related to the accommodation and management of difference Phil Triadafilopoulos University of Toronto, Canada, Sociology • • • • Canadian political parties' handling of immigration issues Immigrant integration politics and policy-making in Europe and North America Immigration and the politics of citizenship in Canada and Germany; population transfer and the quest for stability in Europe Political consequences of forced population transfers - refugee incorporation in Greece and West Germany Marie-Joëlle Zahar Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada • • • • • • Conflict resolution Civil wars Peacekeeping Post-conflict reconstruction Militia politics and war economies Foreign intervention and state-(re)building in Bosnia and Lebanon