l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Ph.D.

Africa Peace and Conflict Network & Nova Southeastern University, Davie, Florida

davidhei@nsu.acast.nova.edu

Director of the Africa Peace and Conflict Network
Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology
Nova Southeastern University
PO Box 292001
Davie, Florida 33329-2001 USA

phone: 1-800-541-6682, ext. 3064 (Wed. afternoons)
fax: 954-262-3968 (alternate is 931-598-1145 ; "Attn: Mark Davidheiser")

http://shss.nova.edu/faculty/davidhei/index.htm

The Gambia ; Senegal ; Eritrea

Specializations in conflict analysis and resolution, peacebuilding,
development and assistance, migration, displacement and refugees, Islamic
African societies, gender, governance, law, and alternative dispute
resolution

Field research in The Gambia, Senegal, Eritrea

* "Race, Worldviews, and Conflict Mediation: Black and White Styles
of Conflict Revisited." Peace and Change. 33(1): 60-89, 2008.

* "Governance and Legal Reform in The Gambia and Beyond: An
anthropological critique of current development strategies." Paper 93 of
the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Paper Series.
Halle/Saale, Germany, 2007.

* "Joking for Peace: Social organization, tradition, and change in
conflict prevention and resolution." Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines. XLVI
(4), 184: pp. 835-859, 2006.

* "Conflict Mediation and Culture: Lessons from The Gambia." Peace
and Conflict Studies. 13(1): pp. 21-42, 2006.

* "Rituals and Conflict Transformation: An anthropological analysis
of the ceremonial dimensions of dispute processing." Beyond
Intractability. Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess (eds.). Conflict Research
Consortium: University of Colorado, Boulder. 2006.

* "Harmony, Peacemaking, and Power: Controlling processes and
African mediation." Conflict Resolution Quarterly. 23(3): pp. 281-299,
2006.

* "Culture and Mediation: A contemporary processual analysis."
International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 29(6): pp. 713-738,
2005.

* Forthcoming: "Policing, Social Control, and Decentralization: Legal
pluralism in The Gambia." Journal of African Development. Vol. 33(3), June 2008.

* With A. Hansen, "Internally Displaced People in Eritrea." In J.
Hampton (ed.) Internally Displaced People. Oslo: Earthscan Publications.
Pp. 77-89. 1998.

migration ; Islam ; gender ; governance ; law ; conflict resolution.