Rift Valley Institute
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article or section needs to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please help improve this article with relevant internal links. (September 2007) |
The Rift Valley Institute is an independent research and educational association, based in Kenya and the United Kingdom. It has been working in Eastern Africa, including Sudan and the Horn, since 2001.
Local knowledge, global information
The aim of the Institute is to connect local knowledge with global information networks, in the spirit of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Minorities and Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Action-oriented social research
Action-oriented research and the dissemination of information about Eastern Africa — within the region and beyond — are the Institute’s core activities, focussing on human rights, political economy, history and environmental conservation.
Training and support for education
The Institute works with educational institutions in Sudan and Kenya, supporting schools and running in-country training courses on Sudan for local and expatriate aid workers, diplomats, peace-keepers and researchers.
A knowledge network
The Institute maintains an expanding open-access digital library, The Sudan Open Archive, available online and on disk.
Fellows and Associates
The Fellows and Associates of the Institute are regional specialists from Africa, Europe and the Americas, distinguished in a range of scholarly and practical disciplines.
John Ryle (Chair) Bard College, New York Philip Winter OBE Athi Plains, Kenya Jok Madut Jok PhD Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Sarah Olney Dept for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK Hamish Tristram Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London University Ahmed Esa PhD Institute for Practical Research, Somaliland David Keen DPhil London School of Economics Deborah Manzolillo Nightingale PhD Environmental Management Advisers, Nairobi Dereje Feyissa PhD Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Fiona O’Reilly Dublin F.M. Mburu PhD M&A Consultants, Nairobi Fergus Boyle The Shading Tree, Isle of Cumbrae Gavin Olney Cheltenham, UK Gérard Prunier PhD Addis Ababa Jemera Rone Human Rights Watch Africa John Reader London Jonathan Kingdon Oxford University Justin Willis PhD British Institute in Eastern Africa Kwame Anthony Appiah PhD Princeton University Lindsey Hilsum Channel Four News, Beijing Lucy Hannan Voxcom, Nairobi Malte Sommerlatte PhD Nanyuki, Kenya Mark Bradbury Kington, Herefordshire, UK Mark Duffield PhD Bristol University Michael Chege PhD University of Florida Peter Fry PhD Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro Sir Robert Ffolkes Save The Children Fund (UK) Suliman Baldo PhD International Center for Transitional Justice Tafari Wossen Seven Day Update, Addis Ababa Ushari Mahmud PhD Sudan Arabic Institute Khartoum Ben Parker UN IRIN, Nairobi
