Former Researchers

Prof. Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi

external page Ghana Center for Democratic Development

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Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi (PhD University of California, Davis) is the Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), an independent, non partisan and, non-profit policy research and advocacy organization dedicated to the promotion of democracy, good governance and economic opportunity in Ghana and Africa; and the Afrobarometer, a pan-African survey research project tracking public opinion on political, economic and social developments in African countries. He is also a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Legon. He has taught in several universities in Africa and the United States, in addition to the University of Ghana.

Dr. Franklin Oduro

external page Ghana Center for Democratic Development

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Franklin Oduro (PhD Carleton University) is the Head of Research and Programs and Deputy Director of CDD-Ghana. He holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Comparative Transitional Justice from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Franklin has consulted for the New York-based International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and the Ottawa-based International Development Research Center (IDRC) on Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Processes. He also served as a member of an expert panel on National Consultations on Transitional Justice for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). He has also consulted for the Washington DC-based National Democratic Institute (NDI).

Dr. Baffour Agyeman-Duah

external page Ghana Center for Democratic Development

Baffour Agyeman-Duah is a Director at the Ghana Center for Democratic Development. He previously worked as a Senior Governance Adviser to the United Nations Mission in Liberia. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Denver, Colorado, and taught for ten years in American universities and at the University of Ghana. At the Institute of Economic Affairs, Accra, he directed the Parliamentary Support and Conflict Management programs. He also managed Ghana’s Network of Domestic Election Observers (1996) and was a consultant to the National Democratic Institute (USA) regarding the Liberian and Nigerian elections in 1997 and 1998-99 respectively. He was a member of the Commonwealth Election Observer Group in Zimbabwe (June 2000) and the Commonwealth’s Technical Expert for Sierra Leone’s National Election Watch (2002). He serves as Adjunct Faculty Member of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (US Defense Department, Washington D.C.), having participated in the Senior Leadership Seminar in Dakar, Senegal (1999), Gaborone, Botswana (2000), Libreville, Gabon (2001) and Washington, DC (2002).

Nene-Lomo Kuditchar

external page Department of Political Science, University of Ghana
external page Ghana Center for Democratic Development

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Nene-Lomo Kuditchar is a lecturer and a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana. He is also a research affiliate at the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana). His PhD thesis will be conducted broadly within the framework of the SDC and SNSF funded R4D project ‘Ethnic Power Relations and Conflict in Fragile States’ and specifically in the context of ‘Ethnicity and Democratic Stability in Ghana’s Fourth Republic’.

Laura Gamba

external page Institute of Historical, Anthropological and Archaeological Studies, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (in Spanish)

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Laura Gamba is an anthropology student at the School of History of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Her research interests are focused particularly on gender roles and how these affect the lives of indigenous and non-indigenous people. She strongly believes in the power of women and the importance of including them in academic talks, publications and research. She is also interested in ethnic conflicts and how people fight for justice, and in this regard particularly in the role of women as defenders of their territory, traditions and culture.

Dr. Mirjam Hirzel

Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich

Mirjam completed her PhD at the Chair for International Conflict Research at ETH Zurich within the framework of this R4D project (2018). She holds a Master’s degree in Comparative and International Studies from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich (2012), and a Bachelor’s degree in International Development and Food Policy from University College Cork, Ireland (2009). In the R4D project, she was responsible for the cooperation with the Indian partner institution, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, and contributed to the collection of data on ethnic groups in South and Southeast Asia. In her dissertation, Mirjam analysed the process of state expansion into regions within its territory where it was previously near-to absent and the responses thereto by affected indigenous communities, drawing on data gathered during several months of fieldwork in India.