Nudging out Joe Biden at this point would be tacky and serve as the last nail in the coffin of the dying Democratic Party. It would serve as one more rationale for key constituencies already weary of the hidden agendas of the party gatekeepers such as African Americans and young people not to vote or if conservative or independent to even vote Trump. The party elite made their bed with Biden . They should sleep in it and stop their odorious game playing which just may be delusionary wishful thinking. John Huston Stanfield ASARPI
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asarpi.org ASARPI: Advanced Study of African Renaissance Policies Ideas is a hybrid nonaligned Pan-African and growing Pan-Asian policy advocacy think tank globally headquartered in Mauritius with branches in Namibia and South Africa. We do much of our work through Study-Practice Groups which convene engagement processes involving multiple stakeholder representatives ranging from impacted grassroots communities to the highest private and public sector policy to decision- making circles to develop strategies and models for governments and civil societies to adress public good and quality of life challenges.
ASARPI in 2023 alone developed a rapid topical appetizers round robin model for briefing foreign dignitaries such as ministers of foreign affairs visiting Mauritius about Indian Ocean Region affairs in the midst of global affairs already adopted by the South African Minister of Foreign Affairs in her briefing requirements in SA diplomatic missions around the world. As well, in this recent period of time,ASARPI established a human rights oriented training institute for all vocations and disciplines: ASARPIversity plus a Study-Practice monitored social responsibility tourism platform:ASRAT: ASARPI Social Responsibility African Tours operating in several Southern African (SADC) nations , the Study-Practice Group for Innovative African Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners such as A to Z Personal and Home Service Providers, and AAFIP- ASARPI African//Diasporas Fundraising Initiatives Program. We have in early 2024 launched our Peace Listening and Nothing Wasted in Africa: Recycling Entrepreneurship Study-Practice Groups
We are aggressively going after funds to establish unprecedented study-practice groups addressing women entrepreneurs, anti-gender violence, peace negotiations, and waste recycling entrepreneurship in African contexts and cross-national multicultural restorative justice engagement processes in African Slavery Legacy and Other Multiracialized Societies.
In early January of this year,ASARPI became a member of the Global South Centre of Excellence @Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, India, at the invitation of the Prime Minister of India through the Indian Ministry of Indian External Affairs and the India High Commission in Mauritius. ASARPI is the first Indian Ocean Region RIS member and one of several in Africa of this emerging network of significant Global South think tanks.We will be soon co-hosting an African- Arab Middle Eastern Studied Webinar Series on cross- regional collaborative solutions to pressing quality of life issues with a leading Middle Eastern research center.
To coordinate our China and global Chinese Diasporas initiatives, we are recruiting a globally well connected Chinese South African woman from Beijing residing in Toronto . She has a PhD. In public policy evaluation from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She will be ASARPI 's liason to business , trade, and cultural in China and in the Chinese Mauritius community and in other areas of the Global Chinese Diasporas such as in the Western Hemisphere and Australia.
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Bio
"Professor John" Huston Stanfield , Director of ASARPI, is a noteworthy global scholar and policy influential in African and African Diasporas Studies and Policies.
He served as the 2019-2020 University of Mauritius SSR Chair of African Studies ( named after the founding first Prime Minister of Mauritius)and held the prestigious title of 2018-2019 Ethiopia U.S. Ambassador Distinguished Scholar. With a rich background, he was a 2016-2018 Distinguished Fellow at the South Africa Human Sciences Research Council in Cape Town.
He was a member of the faculty in the Online Ph.D. Program in Public Policy at Walden University in Johannesburg from 2015 to 2016. In 2014-2015, he took on the role of Interim Distinguished Professor and Founder at the Mogae International Development and Governance Institute at Botswana International University of Sciences and Technology (named after a former President of Botswana).
Prof John was a Senior Strategic Adviser to the Rwanda National Unity and Reconciliation Commission and Rwanda Governance Board in 2011-2012. In 2007-08, he held the position of Distinguished Fulbright Chair in American Studies at Catholic University Rio de Janeiro ( first Black social scientist awarded such a distinguished Fulbright award).
Throughout his career as a first generation college student, Prof John has been a dedicated educator and mentor serving as a Professor at Fielding Graduate University from 2006 to 2012. He holds the title of Emeritus Professor at Indiana University Bloomington since 2015, contributing significantly to the fields of African American, African Diaspora, African Studies, American Studies, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, and the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and Sociology.
His academic journey included senior faculty positions at various prestigious institutions, including Yale University (1981-88 -first native born Black promoted in the Department of Sociology), College of William and Mary (1988-93- first Black sociologist to occupy an endowed named chair in historically elite white American academia), University of California Davis (1993-98-Full Professor Step V+, one of the youngest), and Morehouse College (1998-02-Avalon Professor and Chair,Sociology).
Prof John earned his B.A. magna cum laude, with summa cum laude distinction in Sociology and received the Outstanding Graduating Senior Award from California State University Fresno on commencement night( first and last Black as far as he knows). He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University ( at age 25)and a Masters of Sacred Theology from Boston University ( allowed to skip over Masters of Divinity degree).
Prof John has deep Arkansas and Mississippi roots with significant deep southern Native American background. Both sets of his paternal and maternal grandparents and their children had to flee southern white terror in the 1920s. He was born and raised in small town/rural upstate New York State and since mid-adolescence is from Northern California.
Senior Pastoral Facilitator of Global Interfaith Faith and Justice Sunday Conversations read extensively around the world, Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation Institute Associate, Member.