Thinking Through with LJ Ubuntulist

Greta Lynn Uehling is the Author of Everyday War, a book resulting from her long-term research between 2015 and 2017 in Donbas, Ukraine. Greta is also a teaching Professor at the University of Michigan. Greta’s expertise includes international migration, human smuggling and trafficking, and refugee resettlement.

This episode introduces a sequence where Greta presents her research findings while exploring the political conflict implications in the noncombatant relationships between Ukraine and Russian identities, all sharing internally displaced person spaces. Each one had to adopt survival strategies, some of which caused social and family fractures. But most importantly, ensuring they remain alive among the casualties of that war.

Book Store: Amazon

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Reference: Uehling, G. L. (2023). Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine. Cornell University Press.




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Honoring International Women's Day 2023, we will dedicate the month of March 2023 to shed light on women’s issues across the black continent and dive into some of the structures that continue to create and maintain the existing gender gaps, focusing on forms of gender-based violence as a common continental challenge.

Mokshda Pertaub, a Lawyer, trained as a barrister from Mauritius with 25 years of experience in legal practice, judiciary, and legal advisory, as well as teaching and training, particularly in the areas of gender laws, Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), children rights and environmental law. She is an international gender expert and a Gender Responsive Policing consultant with UNWomen for Senegal National Police, as well as a gender and law consultant with various international agencies like IOM, Equality Now, Agence France de Development, etc. She is also a judicial trainer in environmental law, cyber crimes and digital evidence, judicial ethics and integrity, and gender and violence.

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Producer: Fatma Awadalla

Host: Leopoldino Jeronimo

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Ms. Brenda Uche Anugwom is an international development specialist working to ensure gender equity and justice. With 19 years of experience in the development sector, Brenda has dedicated most of her time to speaking against all forms of discrimination against women. In her home country Nigeria, she has been a formidable force in canvassing inclusive representation and gender equity. Brenda has carried out several research projects on women's inclusion and Gender Based Violence (GBV) and has advocated for girls' education. Brenda has a Master of Laws degree from Loyola University Chicago, and she works with a humanitarian organization in South Sudan and volunteers with Give Girls A Chance (GGAC) in Nigeria from time to time.
Producer: Fatma Awadalla
Host: Leopoldino Jeronimo
Photo cover credits: YuriArcursPeopleimages.
Note: The entire episode was recorded through online services impacted by the internet speed on the field.

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A discussion journey, a simple preventive conflict analysis looking int to the status of the Liberian State.

For that, there is nothing better than to explore one of the oldest democratic states ever built in Africa, questionably from scratch waiving local and regional threats because of the conflicts between Liberian natives and the Settlers, Americo-Liberian repatriates in the 1800s.

Baba Sillah is a researcher in Global Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. And Ali Kaba, a researcher in International Development at the American University.

Your host: Leopoldino Jeronimo
Website: https://thinkingthroughwithlj.com/
Episode Cover: Evanto elements, by SteveAllenPhoto999


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Perspectives and questions towards state making in Africa. A discussion with Ali Kaba a Ph.D. researcher at The American University. And yes, I mean Africa as a continent, not a country.

Some of Ali’s research interests include customary land governance, rural migration, and foreign investment in local communities.

Ali previously worked as a Program Director and Senior Researcher at the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI). A Liberian-based Non-Governmental Organization committed to transforming decision-making processes in land and natural resources.

Photo by James Wiseman on Unsplash


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Valentina Lana, a Lecturer at the Sciences Po law school in Paris, rounds up the best anti-corruption practices in global policies in this last episode of three. As the last piece of her proposed knowledge map, Valentina ends with cheerful tones, a takeaway for institutions and people determined to embrace an anti-corruption system.

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Additional Material:

UN. (2022). UN Office of the Iraq Program—Oil-for-Food. https://www.un.org/depts/oip/sector-food.html

Transparency International. (2013). Oil-for-food programme plagued by ‘lack of transparency’ and…. Transparency.Org. https://www.transparency.org/en/press/oil-for-food-programme-plagued-by-lack-of-transparency-and-scandalous-confl

An Inquiry on the U.N. Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme | NYU School of Law. (n.d.-a). Retrieved August 24, 2022, from https://www.law.nyu.edu/news/IILJ_IRAQ_OILFOOD

An Inquiry on the U.N. Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme | NYU School of Law. (n.d.-b). https://www.law.nyu.edu/news/IILJ_IRAQ_OILFOOD

Duke University School of Law. (2013, October 11). Investigating the United Nations Oil-For-Food Program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvhyg3zbqH0


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