Event Date: April 8, 2009 - 12:00 pm
Location: room 4004 Social Sciences Building, 120 University Private,, room 4004
A talk by Christina Yeung, Policy Analyst, Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and CIPS Research Associate.
Co-Sponsor: African Study and Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa.
Registration is not required. This event will be in English.
In response to the growing awareness of the destabilizing and detrimental effect of armed violence on development, international and national actors have implemented a variety of initiatives, including weapons collection programs in the post-Cold War period. This presentation will use the example of a pastoralist community in North-eastern Uganda to explore the unintended consequences of disarmament as a development policy, while suggesting a preventive, sustainable, “relational” approach to armed violence reduction.
Christina Yeung was educated at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, the University of British Columbia, the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she earned her Ph.D. in International Relations in 2006. She is a CIPS Research Associate in 2008-09.