Green Light of Peace: Women, War and Post–War Return in Liberia
Olajumoke Yacob–Haliso
Monday, 13 Nov 2017 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, a visiting scholar with the African Humanities Program, will speak about her research on African women in post-conflict situations and gender and politics. She holds a PhD in political science and teaches in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Babcock University, Ogun State, Nigeria. In 2012 she was a postdoctoral Global South Scholar-in-Residence at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She currently serves as editor of the Journal of International Politics and Development.Cosponsored By:
- African Students Association
- African Studies Association - African Humanities Program
- African and African American Studies
- American Council of Learned Society
- Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics
- Community and Regional Planning
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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