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The Challenges of Development in Southern Africa
Oct. 8, 2007
MOSCOW, Idaho- Pauline Peters of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is the keynote speaker for the University of Idaho’s second Martin Forum for the fall semester. She will discuss her research on the challenges of development in southern Africa.
“Development is one of those touchstone ideas that attracts or repulses many people,” said Bill Smith, director of the university’s Martin Institute. “At what point should nations like ours help modernize societies elsewhere and at what cost to local cultures, and at what point should we let them chart their own paths? Peters is a perfect person to help us look at both sides of the question.”
Free and open to the public, the lecture will begin at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25 in the university’s Idaho Commons Horizon Room.
Peters, a lecturer in public policy and anthropology, is a social anthropologist whose research concentrates on agrarian transformation. She also has extensive field research in southern and east-central Africa.
In 1982, she joined the Harvard Institute for International Development, where she became a Fellow. She joined the Kennedy School of Government in 2000. Peters also has several publications, which include; “Dividing the Commons: Politics, Policy and Culture in Botswana” and “Development Encounters: Sites of Participations and Knowledge.”
Her visit is co-sponsored by the departments of geography and sociology.
Martin Forums on international topics are part of the educational and outreach missions of the Martin Institute. The institute was founded to advance research and teach about the causes of conflict and peaceful resolution. For additional information, visit www.martin.uidaho.edu.
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About the University of Idaho
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Contact: Joni Kirk, University Communications, (208) 885-7725, www.joni@uidaho.edu
JB MPI 10/8/2007
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