Canadian Mennonite University

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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

Winter 2025

Spring 2025

Past

 

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

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