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SHSS Alum Publishes Book Chapter and Article on Peacemaking and Conflict in Africa
Michael Fonkem, Ph.D.
Michael Fonkem, Ph.D., graduate of the doctoral program in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR) in NSU’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), has written a book chapter entitled, “Bekem in Peacemaking in Nweh Society,” in the book, Beyond Right & Wrong: Indigenous Systems of Conflict Management in West and Central Africa. The book was edited by Akanmu G. Adebayo, Brandon Lundy, Jesse Benjamin, and Joseph Kingsley Adjei and published by Lexington Books in 2013.
Fonkem also published an article entitled, “De Facto Association, Forced Assimilation & Nationalist Conflict in the Cameroons: Perspectives from the Incompatibility Theory,” in the Journal of International Studies & Development, Vol. 3, (2013).
Fonkem is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Services & Educational Leadership in the College of Education & Human Services at University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.
Fonkem has authored numerous articles and was a Fulbright scholar in 1995-1996 at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. Previously he was in the diplomatic service in the Foreign Ministry of Cameroon.