About CMU

CMU Faculty

Jonathan M. Sears he, him, his

Associate Professor of International Development and Political Studies
Director, MA in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development

Jonathan M. Sears

Program(s)International Development (@UW & @CMU) and Political Studies (@CMU)

MA Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development (@CMU)

Emailjsears:@:cmu.ca

Phone204-953-3857

OfficeD289, 500 Shaftesbury Blvd

Jon approaches International Development Studies and Comparative Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa in English, et en Français from a multi-disciplinary background in political studies, philosophy, and anthropology.

Areas of Teaching

Development: Ethics, Aid Policies, Global Politics, African Politics, Political Theory; Development Theory

Education

PhD, Political Studies, Queens University (Kingston, ON), 2007; MA, Political Philosophy, Brock University (St. Catharines, ON), 1999; BA, Honours Anthropology, Saint Thomas University (Fredericton, NB), 1994

Work in Detail

Teaching

Upcoming

Fall 2024

  • IDS-3101 Development Ethics | CRS-3231 Ethics in Conflict Resolution | PCD-5715: Ethics of Peacebuilding 
    • in person @ 515 Portage Ave. UWinnipeg, Lockhart Hall 1L11
  • POLS-1010: Global Politics, in person @ 500 Shaftesbury Blvd

Winter 2025

  • PHIL-2600, SOCI-2600 Social and Political Philosophy
  • IDS/PCTS/POLS/SOCI-4100 | PCD-5210 Seminar in Social Change, @ 515 Portage Ave. UWinnipeg

Spring 2025

  • TBA 

Past

  • You're not the boss of me: authority, legitimacy, resistance (POLS/Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies)
  • Development Ethics (IDS)
  • Senior Seminar in IDS | MA PCD  Seminar in Social Change 
  • Regional Development Issues: West African Sahel (IDS)
  • Development Theory (IDS)
  • Honours IDS Thesis
  • Crisis, Humanitarian Aid, and Development (IDS)
  • Conflict and Construction of the Other (Conflict Resolution Studies & IDS)
  • Global Politics (POLS)
  • Comparative Politics of Development: Africa (POLS)
  • Gender and Politics  (POLS)
  • Social and Political Philosophy (PHIL/SOCI)

 

Research

Jon seeks to place events in Mali and Sahelian Africa in historical and cultural context as the focus of recent writing, and as part of ongoing investigation of how citizen identity in African contexts is rooted in multiple cultures, and how these political cultures are affected by responses by individuals and groups to economic and political liberalization, and post-conflict peaceabuildng at the interface of international and national actors and institutions.

Related are Jon's other research engagements and projects,

Applied

Community

Print This Page