Mark Davidheiser (Africa Peace and Conflict Network & Nova Southeastern University, Davie, Florida)

Submitted: Sat, 14 June 2008


Mark Davidheiser, Ph.D.
Director of the Africa Peace and Conflict Network
Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology
Nova Southeastern University
PO Box 292001
Davie, Florida  33329-2001 USA

phone:  1-800-541-6682, ext. 3064 (Wed. afternoons)
fax:    954-262-3968 (alternate is 931-598-1145 ; "Attn: Mark Davidheiser")
email:  davidhei@nsu.acast.nova.edu

Web page: http://shss.nova.edu/faculty/davidhei/index.htm

Africa Peace and Conflict Network: http://www.africaworkinggroup.org/ 


Specializations in conflict analysis and resolution, peacebuilding, 
development and assistance, migration, displacement and refugees, Islamic 
African societies, gender, governance, law, and alternative dispute 
resolution

Field research in The Gambia, Senegal, Eritrea


Selected publications:

*  "Race, Worldviews, and Conflict Mediation: Black and White Styles 
of Conflict Revisited." Peace and Change. 33(1): 60-89, 2008.

*  "Governance and Legal Reform in The Gambia and Beyond: An
anthropological critique of current development strategies." Paper 93 of 
the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Paper Series.
Halle/Saale, Germany, 2007.

*  "Joking for Peace: Social organization, tradition, and change in
conflict prevention and resolution." Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines. XLVI 
(4), 184: pp. 835-859, 2006.

*  "Conflict Mediation and Culture: Lessons from The Gambia." Peace 
and Conflict Studies. 13(1): pp. 21-42, 2006.

*  "Rituals and Conflict Transformation: An anthropological analysis 
of the ceremonial dimensions of dispute processing." Beyond 
Intractability. Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess (eds.). Conflict Research 
Consortium: University of Colorado, Boulder. 2006.

*  "Harmony, Peacemaking, and Power: Controlling processes and 
African mediation." Conflict Resolution Quarterly. 23(3): pp. 281-299, 
2006.

*  "Culture and Mediation: A contemporary processual analysis."
International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 29(6): pp. 713-738, 
2005.

*  Forthcoming: "Policing, Social Control, and Decentralization: Legal
pluralism in The Gambia." Journal of African Development. Vol. 33(3), June 2008.

*  With A. Hansen, "Internally Displaced People in Eritrea."  In J. 
Hampton (ed.) Internally Displaced People. Oslo: Earthscan Publications. 
Pp. 77-89. 1998.