Obiora Okafor

1. Canadian Project Director of NIHERNET [Initiated this Project to link York University with Nigerian University, Governmental and Civil Society Partners in Human Rights Education, Research and Advancement], 2003-Date:

• Project Director has established a Human Rights in Africa Course at Osgoode (run for over five years now)
• Project Director has won a $23,280 Law Foundation of Ontario Grant to advance the Osgoode-University of Jos Research/Teaching linkage, an aspect of NIHERNET (July 2008)
• Project Director has won a $7000 York Internationalisation Grant to develop a “Virtual Transnational Classroom” within this course (April 2007)
• This “Virtual Transnational Classroom” has been up and running since September 2007 and, via internet video-conferencing and a discussion board, links law students at Osgoode with counterparts at the University of Jos in Nigeria
• Project Director (in association with the Dean’s and Associate Dean’s Offices) has organized two successive Visiting Professorships at Osgoode for Professor Dakas C.J. Dakas of the University of Jos
• Project Director has arranged (with Law Foundation funding) to add a “Virtual Collaborative Student Research” component to the Osgoode-University of Jos linkage

2. Minor Collaborator, The Harriett Tubman Institute’s SSHRC MCRI Team on “Slavery, Citizenship and Memory”, 2008-Date [$2.5 Million over 7 years]
3. Minor Collaborator, Centre for Refugee Studies’ SSHRC Research Cluster Team on “A Canadian Refugee Research Network”, 2008-Date [$2.1 Million over 7 years]