May 5, 2022
11am – 12.30pm EST
Virtual Event – Register at: https://umd.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EFVPyWVQQjKZ8yFFic6LuQ
This event features the editors of the recent volume Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security: The Future of Humanity. Professor Michael H. Allen, Professor Hoda Mahmoudi, and Dr. Kate Seaman. The discussion will explore the challenges raised in the volume around current thinking and strategies in the field of global peace and security. The discussion will be moderated by Stella Holladay Hudson.
Speakers:
Professor Michael H. Allen
Michael H. Allen holds the Harvey Wexler Chair in Political Science at Bryn Mawr College, where he has taught for over thirty years. He has chaired the Department of Political Science and currently serves as Chair of International Studies, and Associate Provost. Allen has published in the fields of International Political Economy and Law, with special reference to Africa and the Caribbean. His books include: Globalization, Negotiation, and the Failure of Transformation in South Africa: Revolution at a Bargain? (Palgrave 2006), and Democracy and Modernity in Southern Africa: Development or Deformity? (Institute for African Development, Cornell University, 2017). He is a graduate of the University of the West Indies at Mona and the London School of Economics, where he completed doctoral research as a Rhodes Scholar from Jamaica. Before his work at Bryn Mawr, Allen taught at the University of the West Indies and was later a Consultant with the Overseas Development Institute in London. His current research focuses on the dynamics of global capitalism and the constraints it places upon planetary sustainability and the possibilities for democracy and development within countries.
Professor Hoda Mahmoudi
Hoda Mahmoudi has held The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park since 2012. As director of this endowed academic program, Professor Mahmoudi collaborates with a wide range of scholars, researchers, and practitioners to advance interdisciplinary analysis and open discourse on global peace. Before joining the University of Maryland faculty, Professor Mahmoudi served as the coordinator of the Research Department at the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa, Israel. Prior to that, Dr. Mahmoudi was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern Illinois University, where she was also a faculty member in the Department of Sociology. Professor Mahmoudi is co-editor of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights (Emerald, 2019) and of Children and Globalization; Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2019). Professor Mahmoudi is also co-author of A World Without War (Bahá’í Publishing, 2020), co-editor of The Changing Ethos of Human Rights (Elgar, 2021), and most recently co-editor of Fundamental Challenges to Peace and Security: The Future of Humanity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and co-editor of Systemic Racism in America: Sociological Theory, Education Inequality, and Social Change (Routledge, 2022).
Dr Kate Seaman
Kate Seaman is Assistant Director of The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland. Dr. Seaman previously held positions at the University of Baltimore, the University of Bath and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Dr. Seaman received her Ph.D. from Lancaster University. She is the author of UN-tied Nations; The UN, Peacekeeping and the development of global security governance (Ashgate, 2014). Dr. Seaman is the co-editor of The Changing Ethos of Human Rights (Elgar, 2021), and co-editor of Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security: The Future of Humanity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). Her research has been published in Global Governance and Politics and Governance.
Moderator:
Stella Holladay Hudson
Stella is a Masters of Library and Information Science Student and a Graduate and Teaching Assistant with the Bahá’í Chair for World Peace, in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. She earned her BA from the College of William and Mary, where she majored in English and minored in Classical Studies.
About the Author:
Kate Seaman is the Assistant Director to the Bahá’í Chair for World Peace where she supports the research activities of the Chair. Kate is interested in understanding normative changes at the global level and how these changes impact on the creation of peace.
You can find out more about the Bahá’í Chair by watching our video here.