"Nigeria: The Road to the 2007 Elections"
Jibrin Ibrahim, Director, Centre for Democracy and Development (Nigeria)
Rebecca Sako-john, Executive Director, League of Democratic Women (Nigeria)
October 4, 2006 "Nigeria: Restoration or a Road to Somalia?"
Pat Utomi, Director of Centre for Applied Economics, Lagos Business School
October 30, 2006 “Conflict in the Niger Delta: A Tipping Point?”
Dimieari Von Kemedi, Managing Director of Alpha Strategy
December 4, 2006 "Federalism, Ethnic Conflict and the Prospects for Democracy in Nigeria"
Rotimi T. Suberu, Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, and Professor of Political Science at Nigeria's University of Ibadan
February 28, 2007 “Globalization and Muslim Reform Movements in Nigeria: Strategic Implications for US Energy Security Policy”
Paul M. Lubeck, Professor of Sociology and Director, Global Information Internship Program College Eight at the University of California, Santa Cruz
March 7, 2007 "Nigeria's Political Outlook: The 2007 Elections and Beyond"
Participants include:
Reuben Abati, Guardian Newspapers
Innocent Chukwuma, CLEEN Foundation and Transition Monitoring Group
Jibrin Ibrahim, Center for Democratic Development
Rotimi Suberu, University of Ibadan and USIP
Peter Lewis, Director, African Studies Program and Associate Professor
Keynote Speaker:
Honorable Nasir El-Rufai, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory
Nigeria Conference at SAIS
March 9, 2007 "Nigeria: 2007 Elections Debriefing"
Peter Lewis, Director, African Studies Program and Associate Professor
Christopher Albin-Lackey, Human Rights Watch
Joshua Marks, SAIS student and Nigeria elections observer
Jennifer Bussey, SAIS student and Nigeria elections observer
April 30, 2007 "Growing Apart: Oil, Politics and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria book launch"
Peter M. Lewis, Director, African Studies Program and Associate Professor
September 17, 2007 "Policy Framework for Nigeria's Foreign Policy"
Ojo Maduekwe, Foreign Minister of Nigeria
October 1, 2007 "A Conversation with Dan Hoyle: Hearing the Niger Delta"
Dan Hoyle, Writer, actor, and former Fulbright Scholar
November 12, 2007
"The Culture of Corruption in Nigeria"
Daniel Smith, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University
November 16, 2007 "The Culture of Corruption in Nigeria"
Daniel Smith, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University
November 16, 2007 "Toward Police Reform in Nigeria"
Okechukwu Nwanguma, Project Officer for campaign operations and periodic reports at the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) in Lagos
April 2, 2008 “Anatomy of a Major Debt Deal: The Paris Club and Nigeria in 2005.”
Thomas M. Callaghy, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
September 17, 2008
“Militants of the Niger Delta: Who, What, and Why?”
Dr. Judith Asuni, Visiting Scholar of African Studies, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS
September 24, 2008
"Addressing Instability in the Niger Delta"
Nnamdi Obasi, International Crisis Group
February 25, 2009 "Where Angels Fear to Tread: Religion and Informal Enterprise in Nigeria"
Kate Meagher, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics
October 28, 2009 "Flawed Vision: Nigerian Development Policy in the Indonesian Mirror"
David Henley, Senior Researcher, KITLV, Leiden
November 11, 2009 "Do-Not-Die: The Nigerian Voter Restored" (click for audio)
Okey Ndibe, Trinity College
Von Kemedi, Senior Government official in Bayelsa State, Nigeria
SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 736, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC
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