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CAHSS Faculty Presents at African United Council Conference in Orlando
Bertha Kadenyi Amisi, Ph.D., speaking at AUC Conference
Bertha Kadenyi Amisi, Ph.D., faculty in NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS), was the invited speaker at the African United Council Conference (AUC) in Orlando. The AUC is a nonprofit organization with the mission of supporting African refugees.
Amisi has extensive experience with international NGOs and the U.N. in the area of conflict and community development, peace advocacy and humanitarian intervention. She was the Program Advisor at the Nairobi Peace Initiative-Africa, a pan-African peace resource organization. She has also worked with the Africa regional office of the U.K. charity, ActionAid, where she provided policy and program support to seven country programs in conflict and disaster prone situations in the western, eastern and southern Africa sub-regions.
Her research and teaching interests include political conflict, peaceful resolution of conflict, globalization and state-society relations in Africa, and gender and conflict.