Okello Lucima

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Gender Male
Industry Consulting
Occupation Public Policy Consultant-(Development, Environment, Peace and Conflict, Governance).
Location Toronto / Kitgum, Ontario /Acholiland
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Introduction Political Economist / Policy Analyst.
Interests Governance; democratic transitions in neo-colonial societies; post socialist international politics; Civil War termination and International Tribunal regimes; Agrarian reforms; International Justice; International Environmental Politics; Local Governance and Deliberative Democracy; Human Rights versus economic / market liberalisation trade-offs in Sub-Saharan Africa; privatarian and collectivist property rights, land, land tenure, and social and economic justice for the poor in Africa; urban planning and governance in sub-Saharan Africa.
Favorite Movies Sander of the River (Korda Classic); 2001 (Stanley Kubrick); The Yellow Submarine (The Beatles); The 21st Century (CBS); The City in History (National Film Board of Canada); and Footnotes on the Future (CBC Telescope).
Favorite Music Soft Rock; R and B; Jazz; Blues; Reggae; operattas and symphonies; Acholi Folk Songs.
Favorite Books For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Henmingway); The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy); The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare); Things Fall Apart (Chinmua Achebe); Song of Lawino, Song of Ocol (Okot P'Bitek); Song of Prisoner, Song of Malaya (Okot P'Bitek); The Plague (Albert Camus);The Prince (Nicolo Machiavelli); How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Walter Rodney); Open Veins of Latin America (Eduardo Galeano);Ideology and Utopia (Karl Mannheim); The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels);The German Ideology (Karl Marx); Brave New World (Aldous Huxley); Utopia (Thomas More); Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift); The City and the Machine (Lewis Mumford); Democratic Vistas (Walt Whitman); Soviet Russia (Sergei Eisenin); Howl! (Allen Ginsberg); The Affluent Society (John K. Galbraith); The New Atlantis (Francis Bacon); The Coming Race, or the New Utopia (Lytton E. Buliver); Erewhon (Samuel Buttler); 2001 (Arthur C. Clarke); The New Industrial State (John K. Galbraith); The Power Elites ( C. Mills Wright); News from Nowhwere (William Morris); The story of Utopias (Lewis Mumford); 1984 (George Orwell); The Status Seekers (Vance Packard); The Republic (Plato); Underground Man (Gabriel Trade); The Theory of the Leisure Class (Thersten Veblen); A Modern Utopia (H.G. Wells); and The Organisation Man (William H. Whyte).