In the run up to the Webinar Conference Roundtable, Coronavirus and
International Relations, a number of participants and contributors
agreed to give short interviews around the conference themes and their
own interventions. All Zoom interviews will be posted to the Coalition for Peace and Ethics You Tube Channel COVID-19 Conference Playlist. For our first interview, Flora Sapio spoke to the issues of COVID-19 in
Italy and its wider implication. For our second interview, Larry Catá Backer
spoke of COVID-19 and meaning making. Yuri Gonzalez was interviewed
about COVID-19 and the developing situation in Cuba, which has been able
to project medical assistance outward even as it faces the challenges
of a developing state. Alice Hong provided insight on COVID-19 from the perspective of a foreign student in the US. GAO Shan spoke
to the way that the COVID-19 pandemic from a comparative context of
Wuhan (where his family lives) and the US Midwest (where he now
resides). And Keren Wang considered the ways in which each system framed the pandemic in ways that
could be understood, noting how differences in those understandings
could produce very different responses.
For our next interview, Jonathan Kiwana, a lawyer and constitutional scholar in Uganda (and a former student) speaks to the way that
Uganda and neighboring states confronted COVID-19 and the pandemic. He
spoke as well to the substantial differences in approach. He also
considered the role of the African Union and IFIs, as well as the role
of Multinational Enterprises in meeting the COVID-19 challenge. He ends
with a reflection on the post pandemic future of international
relations from an African perspective.
Mr. Kiwana is a Senior Associate with Bowmans, a Corporate- Commercial, Top Tier, Pan-African law firm advising financial institutions, multi national companies and energy companies on commercial transactions in East Africa. I have: performed a securities review for three leading banks, advised on a dual listing on the Uganda Securities Exchange and the Nairobi Stock Exchange and advised an oil company on proposed off-shore operations. I have acted in the Supreme Court of Uganda for a former managing director of Uganda's largest pension fund accused of white collar crimes. For the last three years I have been invited to the African Leadership Forum hosted by former African presidents and have once addressed the general assembly. I am also passionate about matters of human rights, rule of law, good governance and constitutionalism and often write on these.
Mr. Kiwana is a Senior Associate with Bowmans, a Corporate- Commercial, Top Tier, Pan-African law firm advising financial institutions, multi national companies and energy companies on commercial transactions in East Africa. I have: performed a securities review for three leading banks, advised on a dual listing on the Uganda Securities Exchange and the Nairobi Stock Exchange and advised an oil company on proposed off-shore operations. I have acted in the Supreme Court of Uganda for a former managing director of Uganda's largest pension fund accused of white collar crimes. For the last three years I have been invited to the African Leadership Forum hosted by former African presidents and have once addressed the general assembly. I am also passionate about matters of human rights, rule of law, good governance and constitutionalism and often write on these.
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