Network Partners

TULANE UNIVERSITY

Tulane University (Resilience)

Tulane University, founded in 1834, is one of the most highly regarded and selective, independent research universities in the United States.  RAN will be housed in Tulane Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy (DRLA), an interdisciplinary academic center with participating faculties from Tulane School of Architecture, A.B. Freeman School of Business, School of Law, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and School of Social Work.

The DRLA aims to improve the science and practice of disaster resilience leadership through an interdisciplinary approach that focuses on understanding and promoting leadership approaches to risk reduction across the disaster life cycle in addition to planning, implementing response measures and post-disaster management.

Tulane will work with all partners and other stakeholders to develop the Resilience Framework; train RILab on multiple methods research techniques, support analysis and measurement of resilience datasets, support development of the State of Sub-Saharan Resilience Annual Report and coordinate activities of the Center for Strategic International Studies.

Prof. Nancy Mock Co- Director Research, DRLA Tulane University

Dr. Apollo M Nkwake Research Associate Professor, Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy, Tulane University

Sofia Curdumi Pendley Senior Program Manager DRLA, Tulane University

 

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

 

Stanford University (Technology)

Stanford University, founded in 1891, is recognized as one of the world’s leading universities. ResilientAfrica Network is a joint program of the Stanford Center for Deliberative Democracy (CDD), housed in the Department of Communication, which is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling, and the Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR), an interdisciplinary research center of innovative research groups focusing on people and technology. H-STAR focuses on a diversity of issues around technology and people (hstar.stanford.edu/). Within H-STAR, the ResilientAfrica Network will be housed in Stanford’s Peace Innovation Lab (Stanford PIL, peaceinnovation.stanford.edu/). The Stanford PIL is a magnet attracting multidisciplinary scholars globally to generate approaches, methodologies, and solutions to complex global problems. The Stanford PIL is also an offshoot of Persuasive Tech which designs machines to change humans, and believes that new advances in technology can help promote world peace in 30 years.

Stanford University will, train the staff, faculty and students at RILab on innovation methods, train staff, faculty and students at RILab in Deliberative Polling methodology in a train the trainers process; and pilot massive online courses with RILab working within existing Stanford courses.

Dr. James Fishkin Professor of Communication and Political Science, Stanford University

Dr. Keith Devlin Co-Founder, Executive Director HSTAR Institute

Margarita Quihuis Co- Director, Peace Innovation Lab

Mark Nelson HSTAR Innovation Consultant

Lillian Kamal Associate Director, Administration & Finance, Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute, (HSTAR)

Alice Siu Chao Associate Director of the CDD

Kathleen Giles Manager CDD

CSIS

 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a bipartisan policy institution of 200 scholars and staff who conduct research, writing, outreach and policy discussions on key U.S. security and foreign policy issues.  Among CSIS core areas of competence are Sub-Saharan Africa, food security, global development, global health, post-conflict reconstruction and disaster response. CSIS is recognized for balanced, forward-looking, and policy-relevant analysis as well as for its role in convening a diverse range of interests from both the public and private sector.

Jennifer Cooke Director of the CSIS Africa Program, Centre for Strategic and International Studies

Richard Downie Deputy Director CSIS Africa Program, Centre for Strategic and International Studies