Dr. Peace A. Medie, a Research Fellow at the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), has been selected as one of eight fellows of the 2014 edition of the African Studies Association (ASA) fellowship programme.
The award offers selected fellows the opportunity to attend as many related conferences as possible while enjoying mentorship both for the purposes of presenting their research, and forming networks.
As part of the award, Dr. Medie and her colleagues, Prisca Odero, and Walelign Tadesse Robele visited the University of Delaware, the Social Science Research Council and Smith College respectively. Dr. Medie has since delivered two papers titled: “From Global to Local: International Organizations and the Enforcement of Gender-Based Violence Laws on panel X-E-1” and “Women and Post-Conflict Justice: Reporting and Prosecuting Rape in Cote d’Ivoire” at three different meetings. She presented the paper “From Global to Local: International Organizations and the Enforcement of Gender-Based Violence Laws on panel X-E-1” at the Annual General Meeting of the ASA on November 22, 2014. The other two presentations on her paper “Women and Post-Conflict Justice: Reporting and Prosecuting Rape in Cote d’Ivoire” were at separate meetings which took place at Georgetown University and the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Delaware on the 17th and 24th November ,2014 respectively.
Dr. Medie’s ongoing project on “How International Organizations and Women’s Movements Influence States’ Enforcement Of Gender-Based Violence Laws” caught the eyes of the selection committee and placed her above many other applicants who competed for the award. Her project included conducting 15o interviews in Liberia with a range of state and non- state actors which has yielded a number of publications including:
Congratulations to Dr Medie for this achievement and for raising the image of the University of Ghana outside the borders of Ghana.
