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CC professor to speak on human rights in South Africa
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Associate Professor of Government
Tristan Anne Borer |
Associate Professor of Government Tristan Anne Borer will address the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State and the National Intelligence Council at a conference on South Africa in Washington, D.C.
An expert on South African human rights and politics, Borer will speak Jan. 25 about the country’s human rights culture.
Titled “Assessing South Africa’s Future,” the conference will be chaired by Princeton Lyman, senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. Borer will discuss how current circumstances in the country will have changed by the time South African President Thabo Mbeki’s successor is in power. She will also project what South Africa will be like in 20-25 years.
Borer joins other prominent South Africa experts from academic, business and non-governmental organizations at the conference, including: South African journalist and writer Allister Sparks; Greg Mills, national director of the South African Institute of International Affairs; and Rocky Williams, formerly with the South African Ministry of Defence and current director of the African Civil-Military Relations Institute.
In 1994 Borer served as a United Nations observer to the first democratic election in South Africa.
Her first book, Challenging the State: Churches as Political Actors in South Africa, 1980-1994, examines the role that two religious organizations in South Africa played in the anti-apartheid movement there in the 1980s and early 1990s. Her second, forthcoming, book will evaluate the success of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She is also the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on South African politics.
Borer joined Connecticut College in 1995. She has twice received a residential scholar fellowship from the Joan Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the co-director of the Research Initiative on the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict, funded and housed at the Kroc Institute.
In 2004 she was given the John King Faculty Teaching Award, Connecticut College’s top honor for teaching excellence.