The Lecture

The life and work of the late Dr. Herb Addo will once again be featured as the second installment of the Herb Addo Memorial Lecture series is carded to take place on November 23, 2007.

This year’s featured speaker is Norwegian professor, Johan Galtung, a leading advocate of non-violent solutions to resolving conflicts. Professor Galtung is founder and director of Transcend, a global network for conflict resolution and founder of the International Peace Research Institute and the Journal of Peace Research. Among his many books are Choose Peace (1995); Peace by Peaceful Means (1996) and Transcend and Transform (2004). He is the winner of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize.

In November 2002, the 1st Herb Addo Memorial Lecture was staged by the Institute of International Relations in collaboration with the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies. The featured speaker was Prof Immanuel Wallerstein who addressed the issue of “The Caribbean and the World System.”

Dr. Herb Addo, Reader, was at the Institute of International Relations from 1975 to 1996. He lectured in International Relations Theory and Methodology and Global Political Economy of Development. He was well known internationally for his contribution to critical theories on imperialism, social transformation and the global development problématique. Addo was a collaborator with renowned International Relations scholars such as Galtung, Wallerstein, Andre Gunder Frank and George Aseniero. Addo’s major writings include: Transforming the World Economy? Nine Critical Essays on the New International Economic Order (1984); Development as Social transformation: Reflections on the Global Problématique (1985) and Imperialism (1986).

* Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.