Binghamton University expert
Conflict in Kenya

Patrick Dikirr
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute of Global Cultural Studies
Binghamton University, State University of New York
Tel: 607-777-3513
E-mail:pdikirr@binghamton.edu

Expertise: Dikirr’s primary research interests are in the fields of environmental ethics and policy, African and African Diasporic philosophies, social and political philosophy, cross-cultural healthcare ethics and international justice. He also has interests in a wide range of interdisciplinary, border-crossing conversations — including: decolonization of Africa’s knowledge regimes; the politics of non-governmental organizations in Third World countries; cultural, economic and normative consequences of globalization; resistance to globalization and to the many forms it takes especially (but not only) in Third world countries and, last but not the least, on security concerns that transcend traditional interstate conflicts.

Dikirr, a Masai, has also published a book chapter on The Masaai concept of Death and Immortality and his most recent co-authored article, “Between the Sacred and the Secular: Indigenous Intellectual property, International Markets and the Modern African State,” was published in the Journal of Modern African Studies, 49, 2 (2006), pp.309-333. He is currently working on a book manuscript, titled Is Planet Earth Colonized and enslaved by Human Beings?