Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana)

Submitted:  Mon, 25 August 2003


Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde
Ph.D. Candidate
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Workshop in Political Theory and Public Analysis
Indiana University, Bloomington

Mail Address: 
Workshop in Political Theory and Public Analysis
Indiana University
513 North Park Avenue
Bloomington, Indiana  47408   USA

phone:   812-855-0441
fax:     812-855-3150
E-mail:  ooyerind@indiana.edu AND ooyerind@hotmail.com


I have been engaging in policy and research work in developing societies
since 1995. My research and policy work revolves around environmental
policy (including agricultural policy), comparative politics and
institutional analysis in developing countries, especially African
countries. I have done a number of research studies in Africa on forest
administration, land conflicts and conflict resolution in agricultural
communities, indigenous governance, and quantitative analysis; and have
published on some of these issues.

Before coming to the United States for a Ph.D. program in public policy at
Indiana University, I have worked with the Obafemi Awolowo University,
Nigeria, and the Research Group on Local Institutions and Socioeconomic
Development in Nigeria sponsored by the Ford Foundation.  I was also a
laureate of the CODESRIA's 1999 Governance Institute, Dakar, Senegal. I
am currently a 2003 Compton Peace Fellow.

List of Publications

i) "An Institutional Study of the Administration of Forest Reserves in
Osun State", M.Sc., Ile-Ife, Obafemi Awolowo University, 1998.

ii) With Dele Olowu and John Erero, 1997 "Indigenous Federalism in
Abeokuta" in Dele Olowu and John Erero (eds.) Indigenous Governance
Systems in Nigeria. Ile-Ife: Research Group on Local Institutions and
Socio-Economic Development, Department of Public Administration, Obafemi
Awolowo University.

iii) "Quantitative Tools for Data Analysis in Public Sector Management,"
in A. Mukoro. ed. Institutional Administration: A Contemporary Local
Government Perspective from Nigeria. Lagos: Malthouse Press Limited, 2000

iv) "Administration of Ago-Owu and Ife Forest Reserves in Osun State: Its
Implications for Governance" in, Ife Research Publication in Geography,
2001, vol. 8, pp. 42 ^Ö 52. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.



Key Words: Indigenous Governance and Institutional Analysis, Social
Capital, Property Rights Systems, Land Conflicts in Rural Nigerian
Communities, Conflict Resolution, and Forest Administration and
Sustainable Development