Roland Adjovi, resident scholar at The College of Global Studies at Arcadia University, has been elected to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. The three-year mandate (2014-16) begins immediately.
A jurist with extensive teaching experience, Adjovi served as academic director at the Arcadia Center in Tanzania from 2009 to 2013 through The College of Global Studies at Arcadia University. At Arcadia, he teaches a course on international human rights law and is a member of the University’s Pan African Studies Collective, which sponsors lectures and presentations at Arcadia throughout the year on Africa and its Diaspora.
“With an impressive background in education and international law, Roland Adjovi brings with him qualities and strengths that will make him an invaluable member of the Working Group,” said Dr. Nicolette DeVille Christensen, president of Arcadia University. “I am sure that this experience will deepen and enrich his scholarship, teaching, and service to the international community. We applaud him on this appointment.”
Adjovi is an expert in human rights and international law, publishing and lecturing on both topics. In 2010, he was the keynote speaker at a briefing session at the U.N. Office in Nairobi, presenting on U.N. administrative law, and last year he published a paper in the African Yearbook of International Law that criticized the seemingly unjust acquittal and lenient sentence in the Gumisiriza et al. case (2008, 2009), in which General Wilson Gumisiriza and military subordinates associated with Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s rebellion army were accused of crimes committed in 1994.
Read the full article at the Arcadia Bulletin.
Update: An write up announcing this honor was included in the June 9th issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer on page C2.