Stephen Chan |
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Stephen Chan is Professor of International Relations in the University of London , and foundation Dean of Law and Social Sciences at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He previously held senior positions at the Universities of Kent and Nottingham Trent, and was on the faculty of the University of Zambia . He has held visiting positions in many universities, lecturing on five continents, and has twice been Visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House in Oxford . He delivered the 2003 Maurice Webb Memorial Lectures in Natal , South Africa . His major research interests are in African politics ( Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence , I.B. Tauris and University of Michigan Press , 2003), and in the composition of an ethics for international discourse that recognises the philosophical methodologies of different cultures ( The Zen of International Relations , Palgrave Macmillan, 2001; Out of Evil , London : I.B. Tauris, 2004). Professor Chan has always sought a praxis in his life. As an international civil servant, he was stationed in both London and Lusaka , and was seconded to the Commonwealth Observer Group that oversaw the independence of Zimbabwe . He has since advised and trained ministries in Zimbabwe , Zambia , Lesotho , Mauritius , Kenya , Uganda , Eritrea and Ethiopia . He has also played a professional role, having served on the Executive Committee of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, and as Adviser in International Relations to the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission. He has also advised the Academy of Finland .Born in 1949 to refugee parents in New Zealand , he took MA degrees from the University of Auckland and London University King's College, and later took the PhD of the University of Kent . Before leaving New Zealand in 1976, he became well-known for his literary and political commitments and, in 1973, was elected President of the New Zealand University Students' Association. He has lived five years in Zambia and continues to visit Africa at least annually. He is involved in several programmes that bring the oriental martial arts to poor African urban areas. He has founded the Kwok Meil Wah Foundation as one means to support these programmes. For more on his literary and martial arts activities, please see: Stephen Chan Literary Click through for a summary curriculum vitae, and for a complete bibliography of Stephen Chan’s published works from 1969 to the present day. |
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