Assefaw Bariagaber

Assefaw Bariagaber is Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. He is the author of Conflict and the Refugee Experience: Flight, Exile and Repatriation in the Horn of Africa (Ashgate 2006), and has published numerous articles on conflicts, refugee formations, and United Nations peace operations in Africa in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Modern African Studies, Africa Today, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Black Studies, and International Migration. He has also served as consultant to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Council for Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (through Writenet/Refworld). He is Past-President of the Association of Third World Studies (2010–2011), and the founding Chair, Department of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University during 2007–2013.