CURRICULUM VITAE
STAVROS (Aki) STAVROU
CONTACT DETAILS:
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Postal Address: |
The Mews, Ballindenisk, Watergrasshill, Co. Cork, Ireland. |
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Fixed Phone: |
+353-21-490-3656 |
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+353-21-490-3326 |
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Mobile Phone: |
+353-87-784-7310 |
Email Address: |
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DEMOGRAPHIC DETAILS:
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Date of Birth: |
13 October 1956. |
Citizenship: |
South African / Greek. |
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Place of Birth: |
Zanzibar. |
Residency: |
Ireland. |
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Partnership Status: |
Married with three children. |
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EDUCATION:
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1987 |
Masters Degree in Development Studies - University of Natal, Durban. |
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1984 |
Honours Degree in Economic History - University of Natal, Durban. |
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1983 |
Bachelors Degree in Social Science- University of Natal, Durban. |
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1980 |
Diploma in Marketing Management – Technikon Natal, Durban. |
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Language skills: |
English (MT), Greek (good), Afrikaans (fair). |
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Computer skills: |
Competent in most Microsoft packages, SPSS. |
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CURRENT POSITION:
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Duration: Jun 2002 to present Organisation: Irish Centre for Migration Studies – University of Ireland, Cork (http://migration.ucc.ie.) Designation: Researcher. |
CURRENT HONORARIA POSITION:
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Duration: Sep 2002 to present Organisation: NASC – NGO, Cork, South Africa: Asylum Seeker and Refugee Service Provider. Designation: Steering Committee Member. |
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
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Development professional with experience in research, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects ranging from applied development research to technical assistance and capacity building projects in emerging markets and transition economies, with experience in the academic, non-governmental, state and private sectors.
Project management from micro to national projects. Country co-ordinator for European Union and Department of Trade and Industry (ZAR), Policy Support Programme – a three-year project 1998-2001.
Legislative processes inputting into drafting of White Papers and Amendments to Legislation in Telecommunications, Broadcasting and E-Commerce, as well as Tourism and Social Development (Welfare) Sectors in South Africa. During the four years leading up to the first democratic elections in South Africa, worked on a number of development processes that were aimed at setting a various policy frameworks into place for the new government.
Experience with international multilateral organisations having worked with such, either as a member of different organisations or as an independent consultant since 1990 - see client list.
Published and regularly presented papers at various international fora on social and economic factors relating to development issues (see publications - Papers available on request or some can be accessed through the web).
Entrepreneurial skills having successfully initiated a number of private sector companies and as part of bi-lateral project assistance have assisted with the creation of a number of a number of micro enterprises..
Directorship skills having sat on the Boards of a number of NGO’s either as an ordinary Board Member or Chairperson tasked with implementing change management procedures or public relations. |
COUNTRY EXPERIENCE:
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Botswana (1997), Democratic Republic of Congo (1998), Denmark (1983), Ethiopia (2002), Ireland (2001-2002), Kenya (2000-2002), South Korea (1985), Lesotho (1995), Mauritius (1996-7), Mozambique (1998), Sierra Leone (2002), South Africa (1985-2002), Swaziland (1997-8), Tanzania (1999), Uganda (1999, 2002). |
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RECENT PROJECT PROFILES:
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Southern Integrated Research Partnership (Ireland): § Current: undertaking an immigrant profile for Cork City and County, Ireland – 2002/3. § Current: researching needs and setting up a monitoring and evaluation framework for a city and county service delivery program for immigrant in Ireland – 2002. |
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United Nations Habitat: § Current, co-authoring a position paper on Youth at Risk - 2002/3. § Designed a Handbook on research methodology on Youth in Conflict with Law – 2002. § Created terms of reference for study on and co-authored report on Rehabilitation Strategies for Youth in Nairobi, Kenya - 2001/2. § Responsible for terms of reference and training country team for study on Violence Against Women in Nairobi, Kenya - 2002. § Designed study and co-authored report on Youth Delinquency and the Criminal Justice System in Tanzania - 2000. § Led international and country team and authored the report for the Crime and Victimisation survey for Nairobi, Kenya - 2001. § Designed research tools, trained and worked with country team on Violence Against Women study in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania – 1999. § Led international and country team and authored the report for the 2001Crime and Victimisation survey for Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania - 1999. |
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Institute of Security Studies (Africa): § Current, undertaking research on HIV/AIDS and soldiers in Ethiopia – 2003. § Undertook an investigative analysis of the experiences of former child and youth soldiers involved in the armed liberation struggle in Uganda – 2002. § Evaluated the role of youth in society and politics in Uganda – 2002. § Responsible for designing programming on evaluation of the, DIFD sponsored community-policing strategy in the Eastern Cape, South Africa - 2001. § Co-designed evaluation strategy and was responsible for research and report on the commercial and financial and civil services response to the quality of service of the National Prosecutions Authority of South Africa - 2001. § Undertook a baseline survey to create an evaluation framework for Reintegration Strategies for Child Soldiers in the Gulu region of Northern Uganda - 1999. § Designed and led the research component of 2000 evaluation on the Quality of Community Policing in South Africa. § Designed and led the team evaluating Judicial Services in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa – 1999. § Designed research programs, undertook baselines and set up monitoring and evaluation systems for tracking Victimisation Rates in (1997) Johannesburg, (1997) Durban, (!998) Cape Town and (1999) Pretoria, South Africa. § Part of team evaluating police service performance in the Highveld and Uitenhage Regions of South Africa – 2000. |
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World Bank: § Evaluator on the evaluation of the Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration Strategy in Sierra Leone - 2002. § Research and co-authored policy paper on African usage of nature based destinations for recreation in South Africa – 2001/2. § Responsible for infrastructural development on 1998 South African National Poverty Study. § Designed research tools, responsible for training country team and monitoring progress on 1996/7 Mauritian National Poverty Survey. |
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European Commission: § Design of and report on study on Anti-Discrimination of Homeless and Travellers in Cork, Ireland – 2001. § Country project leader of a joint venture project for 1998-2000, Trade & Industry Policy Support Programme, Programme Management Unit commissioned and managed bi-lateral (EU-ZAR) research support programs for the DTI, in South Africa |
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South African Government: § Responsible for policy formulation on Best Practice Case Studies of Community Telecentres in South Africa – 2000. § Responsible for monitoring and evaluating and the progress and the restructuring the Universal Service Agency for Communications in South Africa, 1996-2001. § Led the team that evaluated the Community Based Rural Public Works Programme in South Africa – 1997. § Was responsible for undertaking baseline research and setting South Africa’s evaluated Land Reform and Agricultural Projects monitoring and evaluation framework in 1996. § Responsible for creating evaluation framework and monitoring the Southern African Development Bank’s Farmer Support Programme –1992-1994. § Led team that designed and undertook policy evaluation of a 1998 Community-Based Tourism Strategy for KwaZulu-Natal: KwaZulu-Natal Tourism Authority. § Co-ordinated Final Study on the Land Use Implementation Strategy for the Eastern Banks of Lake St. Lucia: Cabinet Committee – later awarded World Heritage Site status - 1995. |
International Development Research Centre (Canada):§ Design of study, research and report on the use of information in improving the well-being of the poor, in Southern Africa – 2000. |
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Commonwealth Expert Group on Information Technology: §
Research on, |
International Labour Organisation:§
Led the research team that monitored and evaluated
the ILO “Start and Improve you own Business Programs” in § Evaluated the ILO, SYB and IYB programs in South Africa 1996-99. |
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DANIDA: § Designed the research process and co-authored report on first baseline study on Violence against Women in South Africa – 1999/2000. |
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Medical Research Council of South Africa: § Designed the research process and undertook baseline survey for the proposed monitoring of Drug Usage Amongst Arrestees in South African Prisons – 1998/9. |
Non-Government
Organisations and the Digital Divide: Implications for South Africa – 2000.
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PRINCIPAL CLIENTS:
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Development Agencies Danida – Development Bank of Southern Africa – DIFID - European Commission - Institute for Crime & Justice (United Nations) - International Development Research Centre (Canada) - International Labour Organisation (United Nations) - Population Council (USA) - United Nations Habitat - World Bank
Government Dar Es Salaam (Safer Cities) - Durban and Johannesburg Metropolitan Council (various departments) – Province of Katanga (Mineral Affairs) - Lubombo Spatial Development Initiative (Mozambique, South Africa & Swaziland) - Mauritius: Department of Economic Affairs - Nairobi (City Council) - South Africa National Departments of Communications, Public Works, Trade and Industry and Transport. South Africa Various Provincial Governments Departments of Agriculture, Economic Affairs, Environment, Land Affairs, Tourism and Transport. - Swaziland: Department of Economic Affairs and Tourism
Research and Development Action for Southern Africa (UK) - Centre for Development & Enterprise (ZAR) - Centre for Development Studies - University of Swansea (UK) - Centre for Science Information Research (ZAR) - Centre for Social and Development Studies (ZAR) - Foundation for Contemporary Research (ZAR) - Human Sciences Research Council (ZAR) - Ithala Development and Finance Corporation (ZAR) - KwaZulu-Natal Tourism Authority (ZAR) - Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Regulatory – ZAR) - Independent Development Trust (ZAR) - Institute of Security Studies - Arms Management and Crime and Justice Programmes (ZAR) - Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tulane, (USA) - Land and Agricultural Policy Centre (ZAR) - Learn Information Network Knowledge Centre, University of Witwatersrand (ZAR) - Medical Research Council (ZAR)
Private Sector Cable and Wireless (Communications – UK) - London Clubs International (Gaming - UK) - Monsanto (Biotechnology - USA) - Multichoice Holdings Inc. (Communications - ZAR) - Scott Wilson (Town and Regional Planners - UK) - South African Breweries (ZAR) - TB Consult (Denmark) - Telkom S.A. (Communications - ZAR) - Vivendi (Water – France)
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PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
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Duration: Nov 2000 to Apr 2000 (six-month fixed-term assignment) Employer: Department of Communications – Civil Service: Government of South Africa. Designation: Senior Manager Special Assignment on Restructuring the Universal Service Agency and Policy Formulation on the Digital Divide. Tasks: In
addition to heading a multi-disciplined task-team to undertake the above
assignments, I co-ordinated and presented submissions for the National
Colloquium to formulate New Telecommunications Policies for South Africa.
Also responsible for synthesising and presenting inputs into the National
Electronics Law Conference and preparing and presenting South Africa’s
position on
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Duration: Jul 1997 to Oct 2000 Employer: DRA-Development– Private Sector: Development Research and Policy Analysts. Designation: Managing Partner Tasks: Directed an organisation of 16 full-time and about 60 contract or part-time personnel, located at four offices in South Africa. Major tasks included the responsibility of creating an overall organisational strategy, logistics planning, financial management and project procurement. I also personally co-ordinated all international assignments and all projects within the communications and crime sectors. I also worked extensively in the tourism and micro enterprise sectors, both assisting in strategy creation and also setting up viable community based and private sector initiatives. In addition I managed both the organisational and dedicated project data-bases, as well as being responsible for public relations.
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Duration: Jan 1996 to Dec 1996: (12-months fixed secondment) Employer: Land and Agricultural Policy Centre - Non Government Organisation: Rural Development. Designation: Senior Manager – Research Tasks: I was tasked with setting-up and co-ordinating a rural communications policy for South Africa. In addition, I was tasked with assisting in the restructuring of the organisation from being donor dependent to becoming commercially independent and financially viable. I also represented the organisation in both the national and international development and land-reform fora.
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Non-Government
Organisations and the Digital Divide at the Meeting of the Commonwealth
Expert Group on Information Technology. PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
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Duration: Apr 1992 to Dec 1995 and Jan 1997 to Jun 1997 Employer: Data Research Africa - Private Sector: Development Research and Policy Analysts Designation: Senior Partner and Researcher Tasks: Co-founded the company in 1988 as a part-time operation and grew it into one of the top social research companies in South Africa. No specific dedicated area of operation, simply multi-tasked. Project work was primarily aimed at researching the status quo in the fields of communications, SMME, housing, land-policy, agriculture, energy and water and assisting and assisting in the creation of various strategies for the first democratic government in South Africa.
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Duration: Jan 1987 to Apr 1992 Employer: Centre for Social and Development Studies, Academic and Research Institution: University of Natal Designation: Senior Research Fellow Tasks: Primarily involved in research and policy work on community based and rural telecommunications for underdeveloped areas, with some lecturing and tutoring. Also carried the responsibility for attracting national and international funding, as well as being responsible for administration, accounting and financial planning of my unit.
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PREVIOUS HONORARIA POSITIONS:
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Duration: Jan 1999 to Jun 2001 Organisation: LINK – University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa: Academic Think Tank Designation: Associate. |
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Duration: Jul 1998 to Jun 2001 Organisation: School of Development Studies – University of Natal, Durban, South Africa: Academic Research Institute. Designation: Associate Research Fellow. |
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Duration: Feb 1999 to Jan 2000 Organisation: Thuthuka – NGO, Durban, South Africa: Engineering Provider. Designation: Chair of the Board. |
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Duration: Oct 1991 to Mar 1996 Organisation: Centre for the Development of Information and Telecommunications Policy – NGO, South Africa: Research and Training Institute for Racially Disadvantaged South Africa’s. Designation: Board of Trustees. |
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PUBLICATIONS:
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Books: § § 2003, with, S. Rasool, K. Vermaak, R. Pharoah and A. Louw,: Violence Against Women in South Africa, Institute of Security Studies, Pretoria. § 2002, Mission impossible? E-security in South Africa’s Commercial and Financial Sectors, Institute of Security Studies, Pretoria. § |
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Contributions to Books Published by International Publishers: § § 2000, with R. Stewart & A-J Stavrou: The Reintegration of Child Soldiers and Abducted Children: A case study of Palaroi and Pabbo, Gulu District, Northern Uganda, E, Bennet, V. Gamba % D. van der Merwe (eds), ACT, against child soldiers in Africa, Institute of Security Studies, Pretoria. § § 2000, Infrastructural Services, J. May (ed) Poverty and Inequality in South Africa: Meeting the Challenge, David Phillips, Cape Town. § § 1988, Growth and Change in South Africa – an overview, J. Natrass (ed), The South African Economy it’s Growth and Change, Oxford University: Cape Town. § |
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§ Refereed Journal Articles: § § 2002, with P. Gregory & R. Stewart: Adoption of Bollgardâ Insect-Protected Cotton BY Small Scale Farmers In South Africa: Farm Level Effects and Global Implications, Pesticide Outlook - February. § § 2000, The Role of Telecommunications in Key National, Regional, Provincial and Local Government Initiatives, Vol 1, No 1. § § 1993, with M. Morris: Telecommunications Needs and Provision in Underdeveloped Areas in South Africa, Telecommunications Policy Sept/Oct. § |
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§ Papers Given at International Conferences and Workshops: § § 2002: Youth and Crime in Nairobi, Developing Citizenship Amongst Urban Youth in Conflict with the Law in Africa, Port Elizabeth, South Africa § § 2002: Violence Against Women: Research, Practice and Evaluation, 1st International Seminar on Womens Safety – Making the Links, Montreal, Canada. § § 2001: Productive Cities: Information Needs of the Urban Poor, 4th International Forum on Urban Poverty Conference, Marrakech, Morocco. § § 2001, with K. Macintyre, N. Rutenberg, L. Brown, R. Magnani, N. Manzini: “Social Disorganisation and Condom Use among Adolescents in South Africa.” Population Association of America annual meeting, Washington, United States of America. § § § |
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§ Papers Given at International Conferences and Workshops (cont): § § 2001: The Victimisation Survey as a Scientific Instrument to Measure Crime and it’s Perception, Conference on Partnership for Safer Cities and Better Governance, United Nations, Nairobi, Kenya.
§ 2001, with L. Brown, K. Macintyre, C. Kehus, A. Karim & A:. Robinson: Measuring Community Effects on Adolescent Reproductive Health in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa”, Population Association of America annual meeting, Washington, United States of America. § § 2000: War Effecetd Children in Northern Uganda, The International Conference on War-Effected Children, Winnipeg, Canada. § § 2000 with C. Kaufman,: “Bus fare please”: The economics of sex and gifts Population Association of America annual meetings, Los Angeles, United States. § § 1993, with D. Nina Research on Perceptions of Justice: interaction between state justice and popular justice, Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa - Community Courts Conference, East London, South Africa. § § 1992, with D. Nina: Perceptions on Justice, 5th Conference on Negotiation and Mediation in Community and Political Conflict in South Africa, Port Elizabeth, South Africa § § 1992: New Technology and the Rural-Urban Link, A case study of electricity supply and telecommunications in South Africa, 8th World Congress for Rural Sociology, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, United States of America § § 1991, with M. Morris: Telecommunications Needs and Provisions to Economically Disadvantaged Areas, PATU/INMARSAT Conference on Mobile Satelite Communications, Younde, Cameroun. § § 1990, with M. Morris, The socio-economic need for rural-urban telecommunications link -–a case study of KwaZulu/Natal, Second International Conference on Rural Telecommunications, The Institute of Electrical Engineers, London, England § § 1989, with A. Crouch, Violence on the Periphery, Twentieth Annual Congress of the Association for Sociology in South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa. § § 1988, with D. Mbona, X. Yokwe, & C. Mbona: K5 – a Preliminary Study of an informal settlement, 7th World Congress for Rural Sociology, Bologna, Italy. § § 1988: Restructuring of Agrarian Capitalism in South Africa after 1950, 7th World Congress for Rural Sociology, Bologna, Italy. § § 1987: Black Farm Labour Attitudes and Perceptions on Employment and Migration Patterns in the Natal Midlands, 18th Annual Congress of the Association for Sociology in Southern Africa, Cape Town, South Africa. § |
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§ Other Journals and Publications: § § 2002, with C. Kaufman, “Bus Fare Please”: The Economics of Sex and Gifts Among Adolescents in Urban South Africa, Population Council, Working Papers, 2002 – No: 166. § 2002, with J. Assiago, S. Ravestijn, C-A. Jackson, Youth and Crime in Nairobi: Some exploratory § § 2002, Crime in Nairobi: Results of a City-wide Victim Survey; Safer Cities Series 2, UN (Habitat) Iissues, Occasional Paper § § 1996, with I. Woolard, G. Ridsdale Poor paradise: Port St Johns - potential for revival and growth, Indicator 13(4). (). § § 1994, with D. Nina & T. Newton: Violence in the Home, Women and Change, SAHS, Vol 36, No3. § § 1992: Electrifying the Nation, Indicator South Africa, Vol 9 (2). § § 1992, with M. L. Morris: Rural Communications, Rural Telecommunications 1. § § 1992, with Stavrou, A-J, & N. Cninibaya, D. Mathenjwa,: UNICEF: Facts for Life Baseline Assessment Study, Project for the Study of Infrastructural Redistribution Report 3. § § 1992: A Dynamic Monitoring Survey of rural Telecommunications 1989-1991, Telecommunications Project Report 4. § § 1992: with L. Luckin, Case Study 3 – Down Kennedy Road, Indicator South Africa, 9 (3). § § 1990: with L. Shongwe, Underdevelopment, Natal's Formula for Conflict, Indicator South Africa, Vol 7 (2). § § 1990: with J. May, Surviving the Shantytown, Durban's Hidden Economy, Indicator South Africa, Vol 7 (2). § § 1989, with A. Crouch: Violence on the Periphery Part 1 & 2, Indicator South Africa, Vol 6 (3) & Vol 7 (1). § § 1989, with J. May: Informal Enterprises will Double by the Year 2000, The Developer, Vol 33. § |
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§ § FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: § 2003, with J. Assiago: Understanding Youth at Risk and Youth Crime: A Youth Offender Profile, UN (Habitat). § 2003, with K. Lindberg, E. Wilson, and S. Ramlagan: Are there Latenet Markets for Nature Tourism in South Africa? An Evaluation of Non-Whites’ Participation and Preferences, Journal of Leisure Research. § |
REFEREES:
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Prof. Mike Morris – Director of the School of Development Studies, University of Natal: MorrisM@nu.ac.za
Ms. Soraya Smaoun - Urban Safety Expert, UN-Habitat: soraya.smaoun@unchs.org
Prof. Carol Kaufman – Senior Researcher at the Health Sciences Center,University of Colorado: carol.kaufman@uchsc.edu
Mr. David Perkins – Director of Gariep Spatial Development Initiative (ZAR Govt): dperkins@pancmail.ncape.gov.za
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