Bonny Ibhawoh

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Bonny Ibhawoh is the Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Expert-Rapporteur, United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development, UN-OHCHR and Founding Director, Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice

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Education

Bonny Ibhawoh earned his MA in History from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and a Ph.D. in History Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada. Ibhawoh was on the Killam Scholarship, one of the most prestigious scholarships given to doctoral students in Canada. His doctoral dissertation explored the tensions in imperial and anti-colonial discourses of human rights in Africa.

Career

Bonny Ibhawoh began his academic career as a lecturer at Bendel State University, Nigeria (now, Ambrose Alli University). He has held faculty appointments at the University of Lagos and Covenant University in Nigeria, Brock University, Canada, and the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He was a Human Rights Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York, [1] Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen and Associate Member of the Centre for African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. [2] [3]

Bonny Ibhawoh is currently the Vice Provost (International Affairs) and professor of Global Human Rights and African Studies at McMaster University. He also teaches in the McMaster Arts & Science Program and the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. His scholarship includes studies in the history of human rights, the cultural relativism of human rights, the right to development and peace/conflict studies. He is also the author of several books on African History, Human Rights and Peace & Conflict studies including Imperialism and Human Rights , [4] and Imperial Justice: Africans in Empire's Court, [5] and Human Rights in Africa (Cambridge University Press). [6] He is a contributor to the GIAZILO blog - a blog on "Human Rights, Social Justice and Peace." [7]

Ibhawoh is a critic of absolute cultural relativism in the interpretation of human rights norms. He has argued that the cultural relativist stance has been dominated by urban-based elites whose perception of "cultural legitimacy" focuses on the idealized and invented traditions of collectivism, definitive gender roles, and conservative patriarchy in the interpretation of moral values. [8] His book "Imperialism and Human Rights" has been described as "one of the first to explore the role rights performed during the process of decolonization of Africa." [9]

Honours

Ibhawoh is a recipient of the John Holland Award for Professional Achievement. [10] [11] Ibhawoh is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, [12] and a United Nations Independent Expert on the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development. [13] He is also the recipient of the McMaster Student Union Teaching Award and the Nelson Mandela Distinguished Africanist Award.

Ibhawoh is also the Director of McMaster University’s Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice . He is the Project Director of the Confronting Atrocity Project , and Participedia , a global scholarly network on democratic innovation.

Publications

Bonny Ibhawoh has published several books, academic journals and conference papers on global human rights, imperialism, peace and conflicts in top-tier publications.

His books include:

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  3. ↑ Elizabeth, Lumley (2009). Canadian Who's Who 2009. Toronto: Canadian Who's Who 2009. p. 624. ISBN   978-0802099655.
  4. ↑ Imperialism and Human Rights. www.sunypress.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  5. ↑ Imperial Justice: Africans in Empire's Court. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2013-10-15. ISBN   9780199664849.
  6. ↑ Ibhawoh, Bonny (2018). Human Rights in Africa. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781139060950. ISBN   9781139060950.
  7. ↑ "GIAZILO". giazilo.blogspot.ca. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  8. ↑ Corinne A. A. Packer, Using Human Rights to Change Tradition: Traditional Practices Harmful to Women's Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa, Antwerp, Intersentia, 2002, p. 98
  9. ↑ Barreto, José-Manuel (2014). "Imperialism and Decolonization as Scenarios of Human Rights History," in Human Rights from a Third World Perspective: Critique, José-Manuel Barreto ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 160. ISBN   978-1443840583.
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