Assefaw Bariagaber, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair

bariagas@shu.edu
McQuaid Hall 119
973-275-2877
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Profile
Assefaw Bariagaber joined the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations in fall 1999.  Before coming to Seton Hall University, Dr. Bariagaber taught at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and was a Research Fellow in 1998-99 at the Center of International Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. His research interest includes peacekeeping and peacemaking in Africa, ethnic and cultural pluralism, and conflict and refugee movements in Africa. 

 Dr. Bariagaber is the author of a book entitled, Conflict and the Refugee Experience: Flight, Exile, and Repatriation in the Horn of Africa, published by Ashgate Press (UK) in 2006. He has published numerous articles on conflicts and refugees in such referred journals as the Journal of Modern African Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Migration, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Asian and African Studies, and Journal of Third World Studies.  He has also written several papers for the UNHCR and UNA-USA on refugees and peacekeeping, respectively.

Dr. Bariagaber is a member of several professional associations, including African Studies Association, African Studies and Research Forum, Eritrean Studies Association, and Third World Studies Association. He currently serves as the Secretary of the Eritrean Studies Association and as the Associate Editor of Eritrean Studies Review.

Dr. Bariagaber earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Southern Illinois University, with concentrations in International Relations, Research Methodology, and Comparative Politics. He holds Master’s degree in Statistics from Southern Illinois University and a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia).

 

Courses Frequently Offered
Graduate
DIPL 6001: Politics of Cultural and Ethnic Pluralism
DIPL 6004: Peacekeeping and Peacemaking

DIPL 6310: Research Methods for International Policy
DIPL 6311: Master’s Research Project
DIPL 6717: Conflict and Forced Population Displacement in Africa

Undergraduate
DIPL 1711: International Relations
DIPL 2101: Ethnopolitical Landscape

Recent Research and Publications

Conflict and the Refugee Experience: Flight, Exile, and Repatriation in the Horn of Africa (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006).

 “Eritrea: Challenges and Crises of a New State.” Status Determination and Protection Information Section, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, October 2006. (at http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?docid4538821e4)

“United Nations Peace Operations in Africa: A Cookie-Cutter Approach?” Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, Fall 2006, pp. 11-29.

“Peacekeeping & Disarmament: Protecting the World’s Peoples –Africa.”  In Angela Drakulich, ed. A Global Agenda: Issues Before the 60th General Assembly of the United Nations, 2005-2006, New York: UN Association of the USA, 2005, pp. 39-49.




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