Professor of political science at Davidson College, specialist on Somalia and the Horn of Africa, and Senior Fellow at the Enough Project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity

This lecture is organised by the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), in collaboration with the United States Mission in Geneva.

Ken Menkhaus specialises on the Horn of Africa and has focused primarily on development, conflict analysis, peace operations, state failure, state-building, and political Islam, involving both academic research and policy work. He taught for two years at the American University in Cairo Egypt from 1989 to 1991. In 1993-94, he served as Special Political Advisor in the UN Operation in Somalia, was a Visiting Civilian Professor at the US Army Peacekeeping Institute in 1994-95, and was awarded a visiting scholar position at the US Army Strategic Studies Institute in 2011-12. In 2004 he was awarded a US Institute of Peace grant for research on armed conflict in the Horn of Africa. He regularly serves as a consultant for the UN, US government, non-governmental organisations, and policy research institutes, and has provided expert testimony on five occasions before Congressional subcommittees. Menkhaus is author of over fifty articles, book chapters, and monographs.

CHAIR
Keith Krause,  Director, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding and Professor of International Relations/Political Science, Graduate Institute

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