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Restorative Justice: An Afrocentric Perspective

WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Prof Don John Omale,  Professor of Criminology, Department of Sociology, Federal University Wukari, Nigeria Moderator: Ehinon Perez E. Arikhan, Member, WATJCentre’s Africanist Scholars’ Forum Date: July 7, 2022 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 )  Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcuqsqTIoEtQgBsRMV-hMKXtfrKyuFGyY?fbclid=IwAR3R_n_89aG16xnhikSyNvi_b8cT5EuBemRShHi6JEXSL3uXSGxU5NWH7hQ Video Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcuqsqTIoEtQgBsRMV-hMKXtfrKyuFGyY

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Prof Don John Otene Omale

Don John O. Omale PhD is a UNODC Expert on Restorative Justice; a British Chevening Scholar of Criminology; and Professor of Criminology & Security Studies at the Federal University Wukari Taraba State, Nigeria. He holds BSc Psychology (University of Nigeria, Nsukka), MSc Criminology (University of Leicester, UK) and PhD Criminology with specialism in Restorative Justice

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Thin Sympathy: A Strategy to Thicken Transitional Justice – Prof. Joanna Quinn

Book: Thin Sympathy: A Strategy to Thicken Transitional Justice Author: Prof Joanna Quinn, Director  and Graduate Chair,   Centre for Transitional Justice and Post Conflict Reconstruction, Western University, Ontario, Canada Discussants: Dr Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Prof. Elisabeth King, Professor of International Education and Politics,

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Teaching Speaking Out in Humanitarian Contexts

WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Dr Rebecca Golden-Timsar,  Learning and Development Coordinator, Speaking Out Case Studies, Medecins Sans Frontieres Moderator: Simone Rocha, Founder, Medecins Sans Frontieres Brazil Date: April 13, 2022 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 )  Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvdeGgrTkpHdRdiNWn5jDGe2bvoezHKMYX Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EaDcuxtDYI

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Negotiating Patriarchy & Gender in Africa – Prof. Egodi Uchendu & Ngozi Edeagu

Book: Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa  Editors: Prof Egodi Uchendu, University of Nigeria, Nigeria; Ngozi Edeagu, University of Bayreuth, Germany Discussants: Prof Kehbuma Langmia, Howard University, USA Prof Gloria M T Emezue, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaJdTVf9slc

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Rehumanising our Globe as a Sustainable Solution to the Russia-Ukraine Crisis

Preamble The declaration of a peacekeeping mission by the Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 22, to honour the agreement between his country and the secessionist regions in Eastern Ukraine – Donetsk and Luhansk, confirmed the earlier intelligence reports from the United States (US) and its Western Allies to the UN Security Council (UNSC) about

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Quest for Empathy and More Humanised Physician-Patient Relationship in Africa

by Chukwudi Christian EGBARA egbarachukwudi@gmail.com Department of English University of Ibadan, Nigeria What other need could be more pressing to a physician than to tend to, and save, a patient who is dying in labour?   Why should a patient’s social status determine the level of medical attention paid to him or her in Nigeria and/or

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