BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250715T145013EDT-3851JXxRgU@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250715T185013Z DESCRIPTION:The Max Bell School will be hosting the event Reconciling Decol onization and Public Policy\, February 25\, 2022 at 9 a.m. EST as part of Black History Month at the School.\n\nThis panel aims to unpack decoloniza tion as a conceptual framework in terms of its capacity to disrupt mainstr eam approaches to public policy\, applied especially to areas of constitut ionalism and the South African experience. Reflections on historical and t he renewed contemporary movements of decolonization in the global South an d lessons learned for multicultural states: can public policy\, operating in ‘classic’ state structures and international law paradigms\, truly be i nfluenced by decolonization? What are the competing or complimentary dimen sions of public policy and decolonization? \n\n>>Watch the recording of th is event.\n\nSpeakers\n\nTshepo Madlingozi is an Associate Professor and D irector of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University. He has master’s degrees in both Law and Sociology\, and he received his PhD degr ee from Birkbeck\, University of London. He is a Research Associate at the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education at Nelson Mandela Universi ty. He is the co-editor of the South African Journal on Human Rights. He i s a co-editor of Symbol or Substance: Socio-economic Rights in South Afric a (Cambridge UP) and a co-editor of Introduction to Law and Legal Skills i n South Africa\, 2nd Edition (Oxford UP South Africa). He sits on the boar ds of the following civil society organizations: Amandla.mobi\; Centre for Human Rights\, University of Free State\; the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution\; the Rural Democracy Trust\; and the M ining-Affected Communities United in Action/Women-Affected by Mining Actio n. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA)\, and a member of the advisory board o f the Health Justice Initiative. For thirteen years (2015-2018) he worked with and for Khulumani Support Group\, a 120 000-strong social movement of victims and survivors of Apartheid as National Advocacy Coordinator & lat er the Chairperson.\n\nTerri Givens is the CEO and Founder of Brighter Pro fessional Development. She is also a political scientist with more than 30 years of success in higher education\, politics\, international affairs\, and non-profits. She is an accomplished speaker and uses her platform to develop leaders with an understanding of the importance of diversity and e ncourages personal growth through empathy. Terri has held leadership posit ions as Vice Provost at University of Texas at Austin and Provost of Menlo College (first African American and woman)\; professorships at University of Texas at Austin\, and University of Washington. She was the founding d irector at the Center for European Studies at the University of Texas and led the university’s efforts in Mexico and Latin America as Vice Provost f or International Activities. At Menlo College she has led faculty and staf f in developing programs for first generation students\, updating curricul um and infrastructure for evidence-based assessment. Terri is the author/e ditor of books and articles on immigration policy\, European politics and security. Her most recent book is the memoir\, Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides.\n\nDiscussants\n\nPearl Eliadis\n\nProfes sor Elidias is a 'pracademic\,' spending half her time with the School and half in her law practice\, where she specializes in human rights\, nation al institutions and democratic governance. At Max Bell\, she is the inaugu ral chair of the Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and serves as a First Responder In the School. Pearl also has more than a decade of publ ic policy experience in government\, including as Director of Policy and E ducation at the Ontario Human Rights Commission and Senior Director at the Policy Research Initiative (Privy Council Office) in Ottawa. From 2000-20 03\, she served on several UN missions to Rwanda to establish the National Human Rights Commission and the Unity and Reconciliation Commission in th at country. Pearl has written extensively on human rights\, public policy and evaluation in the social justice context and Is deeply engaged with ci vil society organizations in Canada and internationally. She has served in leadership roles with many human rights NGOs and is a recipient of severa l awards for this work\, including the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Canada 125 Commemorative Medal. She was named a Human Rights Change Maker in 2017 by Equitas.\n\nMunesuishe (Mune) Mafusire\n\nMune is a Zimbabwean national and has lived in over six countries. This diverse e xperience has made him more adept at working with and across different cul tural contexts. Mune's experience in policy advocacy has strengthened his research and communications skills\, while fostering an entrepreneurial mi ndset. As a recent graduate from ɫTV's Political Science pro gram\, he has developed a keen interest in the complexities of the policy process for African countries\, whether in local or global contexts. Mune hopes to gain deeper insights into the continent's geopolitical issues and how to address them from a policy perspective.\n\nJennifer Welsh\n\nJenni fer M. Welsh is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Sec urity at ɫTV. She was previously Professor and Chair in Inte rnational Relations at the European University Institute (Florence\, Italy ) and Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford\, w here she co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics\, Law and Armed Confli ct. From 2013-2016\, she served as the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General\, Ban Ki-moon\, on the Responsibility to Protect.\n\nProfessor We lsh is the author\, co-author\, and editor of several books and articles o n humanitarian intervention\, the evolution of the notion of the ‘responsi bility to protect’ in international society\, the UN Security Council\, an d Canadian foreign policy. Her most recent books include The Return of His tory: Conflict\, Migration and Geopolitics in the 21st century (2016)\, wh ich was based on her CBC Massey Lectures\, and The Responsibility to Preve nt: Overcoming the Challenges of Atrocity Prevention (2015). She was a for mer recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship and a Trudeau Fell owship\, and from 2014-2019 has directed a five-year European Research Cou ncil-funded project called “The Individualisation of War: Reconfiguring th e Ethics\, Law and Politics of Armed Conflict”. She is also a frequent med ia commentator on international affairs and Canadian foreign policy.\n\nPr ofessor Welsh sits on the editorial boards of the journals Global Responsi bility to Protect\, International Journal\, and Ethics and International A ffairs\, and on the Advisory Boards of the Peace Research Institute in Fra nkfurt\, The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect\, and the Aus chwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. She has a BA from the Unive rsity of Saskatchewan (Canada)\, and a Masters and Doctorate from the Univ ersity of Oxford (where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar).\n DTSTART:20220225T140000Z DTEND:20220225T153000Z SUMMARY:Reconciling Decolonization and Public Policy URL:/maxbellschool/channels/event/reconciling-decoloni zation-and-public-policy-337177 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR