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Howard Adelman

Dr. Howard Adelman

Professor Emeritus, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University

Professor of Philosophy, Member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Founder and Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University as well as Editor of Refuge until 1993. Research interests focuses on refugees, Palestinians, humanitarian intervention, membership rights, ethics, refugee policy and resettlement, in addition to his more philosophical works. He is presently undertaking a retrospective study on early warning and conflict resolution with respect to the genocide in Rwanda, and is a member of the Pax Warrior Project. In 2003/2004 he was Visiting Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

He most recently co-authored an international report: Early Warning and Conflict Management: Genocide in Rwanda and co-edited, The Path of a Genocide: The Rwandan Crisis from Uganda to Zaire,1999. Other major publications include: Howard Adelman and Pierre Anctil (eds.) Religion, Culture and State (U of Toronto Press); Howard Adelman and Elazar Barkan No Refuge, No Return, U. of Columbia Press; The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire and Early Warning and Conflict Management: the Genocide in Rwanda (with Astri Suhrke; Transaction Books, 1999). Prof. Adelman has written extensively on the Middle East, humanitarian intervention, membership rights, ethics, refugee policy and refugee resettlement. His most recent co-edited books are: Immigration and Refugee Policy: Australia and Canada Compared (University of Melbourne Press and U of Toronto Press, 1994) and African Refugees (Westview Press, 1994).