Call for Papers: Oromo Studies Association (OSA) 2012 Mid Year Conference
The following is a Call for Papers for the OSA 2012 Mid-Year Conference, scheduled to be held at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) on April 7-8, 2012 – with the theme: “The Challenges of Human Rights, Democracy and the Role of International Community in the Horn of Africa.”
The Oromo Studies Association (OSA), continuing its tradition of a multi-disciplinary scholarship, the current Executive Committee of OSA has selected the theme for our mid-year conference to investigate the interplay of human rights, democracy and the role of international community in Ethiopia and in the Horn of Africa. In past OSA conferences, scholars have studied and presented papers separately dealing with the issues of human rights or lack thereof, they presented papers highlighting the challenges of democratization process in Ethiopia, and the Horn of Africa in general. This year in our mid-year conference, we invite all scholars with expertise in the dynamics and interplay of human rights, democracy and the role of both western and eastern powers in promoting human rights and democracy or subsidizing and/or enabling the oppressive regimes that have continuously violated the most basic human rights of peoples and their aspiration for democratic rights in Ethiopia in particular, and in the Horn of Africa in general.
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