Yazier Henry

Yazier Henry is a Teaching Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. He is a transdisciplinary scholar, theorist, strategist, political analyst, professional human rights advocate, public intellectual and poet. His teaching foci, intellectual and public works address Eurocentric discourses on human rights, globalization and globalism; International Transitional Justice, International Human Rights; Administrative and  Statist violence. His intellectual work sits at the nexus of the political philosophy and social economy of the Law, Systemic, Structural in both National and International administrative infrastructures. He has written and published on the political economy of social voice, official violence, historical memory, identity, peace processes, international transitional justice and international humanitarian law. His current research and writing foci are on liberatory statism, development statism and how structural, systemic and administrative violent continuities come to be institutionalized during and after post-colonial and oppressive systemic transitions to constitution and democratic systems. Among the courses he teaches at the Ford School are “Social Justice Leadership, Globalization, and Democracy: Perspectives of the Global South,” “International Human Rights and Public Policy,” “Political Values, Meta Ethics,  and Democratic Practice,” “The Politics of Official Public Apologies: Transitional Justice, Peace Settlements, Democratic Membership and National Policy,” “Dangerous Peacemaking, Civil Conflicts and International Humanitarian Law.”