Event Date: March 1, 2012 - 11:30 am
Location: Social Sciences Building, 120 Universi

ANDREW GRANT, Queen’s University.

Presented by CIPS.
Free. In English. Registration is not required.

Andrew Grant is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. His recent publications focus on conflict diamonds and the Kimberley Process, non-state armed groups and regional security, post-conflict reconstruction, transitional justice, and governance issues relating to natural resource extraction. He has conducted field research in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Dr. Grant is a Senior Fellow with the Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy, a Faculty Associate with the Queen’s Southern African Research Centre, a Research Fellow with the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University, the Secretary of the International Studies Association – Canada region, and the Chair of the International Political Science Association Research Committee #40 (New World Orders). Dr. Grant has also advised Canadian, American, British, and German policy-makers on topics ranging from the Kimberley Process and conflict diamonds to humanitarian responses and international engagement in fragile states to the politics of identity formation among non-state armed groups in Africa.