BLACOLOGY (A CULTURAL SCIENCE)
RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Dr. Amos M.D. Sirleaf, Ph.D.
914 East Tantallon Drive
Fort Washington, Maryland 20744
(301) 292-7111 (home); (301) 367-0413 (cell)
Email: amdsirleaf@hotmail.com
Websites: www.geocities.com/amdsirleaf or blacology.com
Synopsis of my areas of expertise includes the following:
Specialist in Academic Research and Teaching Conflict Management and Resolution and International Relations.
I have Over 20-years of Academic Teaching and Administration. Knowledge of MD-DC-VA- and Texas Academic Codes with specific emphasis on secondary and post –Secondary-Community College and University education program. As a product of Community College orientation with Masters Degree in Sociology/Social Work, I teach counseling with administrative experience. I have the knowledge and skills in educational theories in an Urban and Rural perspectives. I can relate to a diverse people within the community college population.
I have a Homeland Security Research and Teaching experience,
Social Services, Employers-Students-Faculty Relations Specialist,
Specialist in Work Environment Safety. Law Enforcement-Criminal Justice-Police Science and Administration. Proactive Crime Prevention Experience, Crisis Management and Resolution in a College Environment. Security and Safety in a University Community and the public in general. Professor of Law Enforcement-Criminal Justice and Research. Compliance, Policy, and Procedural Enforcement Experience, Orientation Specialist, Specialist in Recruitment, Retention, Sourcing, Screening, processing qualified personals. Alternative Dispute Management and Resolution, Rehabilitation and Training of Child Soldiers and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Victims of the Liberian-Sierra Leone Civil Wars. Katrina, Tsunami. Supporting Traumatized Child Soldiers, students, and victims and organizations to provide appropriate and sustainable individualized and family-focused care to Child Soldiers, children, youth, and families in our Foster Care Program. Experiences in Field and Residential Services for youth and adults. I was responsible for research, teaching, Coordination with officials and, Philanthropic and Benevolence individuals within the community, and other financial and grant proposal negotiation for the NON-Profit Organization.
Designed and implement innovated and sustainable programs for employees, children, adults, and senior citizens. Recruitment and Retention. Maintaining network with partners in progress.
Post-Conflict Analysis, Management and Reconciliation. Alternative Dispute Resolution Expert.
Women Empowerment, Employees Empowerment, and Safety and Security for Youth, students, and Adult Facilities, Forster Care facilitation experience. Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Diversity Expert
Specialist in Safety and Security Improvement with emphasis on Ant-Terrorism
A 21st century Post-911 Homeland Security expert with specific emphasis on (WMD) Weapons of Mass Destruction, Safety and Security
Specialist in Cultural Diversity, Academic Opportunity and Decentralization, and Women Empowerment.
As my Curriculum Vitae shows, I have a Ph.D. in African Studies with an emphasis in Conflict Resolution Management and International Relations from Howard University Department of African Studies and Research; a Master’s degree in Sociology/Social Work and a Bachelor’s degree in Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Police Science, Pre-Law and Legal Research, from Prairie View A&M University in Texas.
My interest in this position is indeed motivated by the areas of expertise. Through out my professional career, I have committed to working on issues impacting specifically on students, faculty, and public Security and Safety. Case management, Social Services nationally and internationally, especially in the United States where I have spent almost half of my adult life in teaching and research in various institutions of higher learning. I also served as an instructor as Police Officer- Sergeant in Academic Institutions. Communities, university campuses, student affairs, faculty & staff and the public
For more than fourteen years, I have worked as a Special Police Officer and as graduate student in the Howard University Campus Police Department in Washington DC, where I have used my Police Scientific Experiences, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Conflict Resolution skills, along with my Law Enforcement/Criminal Justice experience, my Sociology/Social work-Case Management to resolve differences and conflict among students without resorting to violence. I responded to crime scenes to provide preliminary investigations, process cases in the DC Criminal Court. From 1997 to 1999, I represented Howard University Campus Police Department to assist in the provision of teaching police officers the processes of mediation and conflict resolution to reduce the threats of suicide and suicide among police officers and students. During my services at Howard, I have used the diversity of my professional and personal experiences to convey message to students. Over the years, I have given orientation presentations to incoming Howard University Law students about the essence of cultural diversity, safety and security at Howard University in general and the Law School in particular.
I have vigorously engaged in Working from a national and an international perspective with people, children, women, men, out of wars without out hope. I have served in numerous national and international organizations to create an avenue for peaceful resolutions with an alternative dispute resolution mechanism as a back up plan. I have participated with other scholars in many conferences in Washington DC and around the world for an alternative to violence conflict, Safety and Security with reference to Post 911 Security Strategies. Indeed, my advocacy and commitment are not limited to the above analyses. As a professor and an Academic Administrative Leader, the most satisfying experience for me has been to make my students experts in their areas of interests. Because, as expressed before, that scholastic objective is achieved through commitment of providing one-on-one interaction, strong instructional leadership, class presentations, and high expectation for success for all students, frequent monitoring of students progress and providing effective research methods to facilitate new innovations. I have always applied these philosophies in all of my life’s worth and I have been successful in accomplishing my objective. I have always encouraged my students as I do in administration, to acquire the knowledge and develop the skills and work habits necessary to enable them to become productive members of society and the global community.
I believe that I have the leadership qualities for any task. I am a visionary that will enhance the department’s mission and objective. I welcome the opportunity to serve with you all as fellow positive, progressive, and productive citizens to help our people, our children, and our institution. I am versatile with multi-scholastic background. I hope that my CV and Cover Letter will meet your approval and I hope to have the opportunity to meet with you all to further discuss my qualifications. You can log on my website: www.geocities.com/amdsirleaf or blacology.com.
Sincerely,
Dr. Amos M.D. Sirleaf, (Ph.D.) 301-367-0413 cell
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Topic: Philosophical Coalitions, Prospective, and Dynamics: The Role of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, and John Staurt Mill in the context of Moral Principles.
ReplyDeleteBy: Dr.Amos M.D.Sirleaf (Ph.D.)
Introduction
With the opening of European plantations in the New World during the 1500s, which suddenly expanded the demand of slaves in Americas. In an effort to sustain the black people on the white man’s plantation and make them submissive to his will, the plantations owners manipulated the oppressed black people by introducing them to the Eurocentric Biblical fear factor philosophies. The White Plantations slave owners masterminded the introduction of the submissive psychology of spiritual disciplines and respects for ownership as it relates to the Bible to the black oppressed people. This was an effort to make the Black/African captives submissive, obedient, non-violence, and the ability to obey and not to escape because the “Good Book Says so”.. The intention of the black oppressed slaves to kill their masters was abridged by Eurocentric Biblical philosophy of “Morality”. For instance, “ Thou Shall Not Kill”, yet, white Slave Masters and White Oppressors were holding the Bible while killing, raping, and selling Black/African People. Another instance is, “Thou Shall not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor”. During the plantation occupation of oppressed black African people, a suspicion experienced by one white slave care taker of an attempt escape of one slave; the entire slave owners will attest that few of their slaves have escaped along with their neighbors slaves. “Morality, according to the slave masters, was one of the manipulating and fear factors inflicted into the psychic of the slaves not to hurt their masters, not to look in the face of their masers, not to look at white women, not to speak or be the first to speak to white people. Made the slaves to respect all white people. White babies are called sirs or moms, or buss, because the slaves saw that the white man was God. His pictures were in the Bible, on the money, has more big guns, and he is powerful. Based upon these backgrounds, it is imperative to acknowledge that Emmanuel Kant’s Groundwork and philosophical perceptions of “Metaphysic of Morals or “Morality” in the context of “ethics, and religion as his central team of practical reasoning, brings to an academic theory of philosophical arguments which shows correlations between Kant’s concept of “Good Will” as a critical imperative in enhancing morality and universal obligations, but not the happiness principles articulated by Bentham and John Stuart Mill.
According to Kant, “It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.” It is significant to further elaborate Kant’s argument, that intelligence, wit, judgment, and any other talents of the mind we may care to name, or courage, resolution, and constancy of purpose, as qualities of temperament, are without doubt good and desirable in many respects; but they can also be extremely bad and hurtful when the will is not good which has to make use of these gifts of nature, and which for this reason has the term “Character” applied to its peculiar quality. It is essential to address Friedrick Wilhelm Nietzsche’s prospective.
STRAYER UNIVERSITY
ReplyDeleteCRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAM
PROPOSED CURRICULUM
By Dr. Amos M.D.Sirleaf, Professor of Sociology, Arts & Sciences and Humanities, Teaching and Research Areas include Law Enforcement-Criminal Justice-Police Science, Legal Research, Conflict Management-Resolution and Globalization, Political Economy, Urban Sociology, Race/Ethnic Relations, Social Theory, Historical Comparative International Problems.
Mission Strayer University’s Criminal Justice Program is a behavioral and scientific study of crimes and criminal, society and the criminal justice system, and the effective practice and understanding of the law and its enforcement. The curriculum provides students with quality education and skills for career preparation in areas of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement.
Purpose/General Information
The goal of the program is to expose students to contemporary social science knowledge regarding the relationship between law and society, the patterns and causes of crime, the operation of the justice system in a multi-cultural environment, and the public debates and ethical issues surrounding justice, policies and practices. The criminal justice and law enforcement courses will be offered through Strayer University’s Department of General Studies, Humanities and Sociology, leading to an Associate and Bachelor of Science Degrees in Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice.
Students who choose to select these choices will be required to enroll and have an adequate understanding of the five substantive areas listed below:
· Criminal and Juvenile Justice Processes (law, crime and administration of justice).
· Criminology (causes of crime, typologies, offenders and victims).
· Law Enforcement (police organization, discretion, sub-culture and legal constraints).
· Law Adjudication (criminal law, prosecution, defense, court proceedings and decision-making).
· Correction (incarceration, community-based corrections, and treatment of offenders).
The program should strongly encourage or require cognate courses that develop the ability of students to process and apply information reliably. Cognates should also be designed to encourage students to be informed citizens, as they participate in the government process and consume criminal justice information. Whether cognates are required as part of the major requirement, or as part of the liberal arts requirement, should depend upon faculty expertise within the criminal justice and law enforcement program and on institutional priorities. These courses should include: research methodology, statistics, computer methods, government and politics, ethics, writing courses, public speaking and logic. An understanding of social problems, human behavior, and policy should be developed through exposure to courses such as race and ethnic relations, social problems, psychology, and public management. Appreciation for these concepts and skills should also be part of criminal justice courses. Criminal justice courses should internationally reflect issues of global culture and diversity.
A Post Conflict Paradox of Poverty Admits Spontaneity of Construction Consumption: A Case Study of Post-Elections 2005 Liberian Situation
ReplyDeleteBy: Dr.Amos M.D.Sirleaf(Ph.D.)
Professor of Blacology Research and Development Institute, Inc.
Introduction
Supporting Liberia's Reconstruction and Development
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson"Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression." - Viola Spolin
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's inauguration as the President of Liberia in January 2006 marked a watershed in that country's tumultuous history. Twenty-five years of corruption, misrule and civil war under Samuel Doe, Charles Taylor and successive interim governments had left the country in complete ruins. President Sirleaf, the first African woman to be elected head of state, has energetically set the country on a new course, putting accountability, transparency, good governance, and economic opportunities for all Liberians at the center of her agenda. Center for Global Development (CGD) senior fellow Steve Radelet and others from the Center have been advising President Sirleaf and senior members of her government since December 2005, the month before she took office. The substance of the work has been wide-ranging, and has included aid coordination, aid quality, debt relief, poverty reduction and growth strategies, capacity building, and civil service reform, among other issues. Debt relief and aid coordination have been particular areas of focus.
This level of engagement in a developing country is unusual for CGD, because the primary focus is on improving the policies and practices of the rich world towards development. In addition to being helpful to Liberia, the relationship has provided CGD a unique opportunity to observe the complex interactions between donors and a developing country in the early stages of recovery from conflict. Based upon this end, it is essential to point out that autocratic rule, coups and finally civil war in the 1990s took a devastating toll on Liberia. More than 250,000 Liberians lost their lives in the civil wars. Average income fell to one-eighth what it was in 1980, making Liberia one of the poorest countries in the world. Infrastructure was totally destroyed based on my personal and physical presence on the ground from 1987, 2006, and 2008 respectively, and families and communities were absolutely destroyed, dissipated, and torn apart. Warlords used the country to smuggle diamonds and traffic in arms and drugs, bringing chaos to the country and destabilizing all of West Africa, specifically, creating a post civil conflict’s conflict among the dislocated and dispersed Liberians at home..
Liberia's Recovery From Devastation
The country has made significant progress during President Sirleaf's first year in office. It established a cash management committee to check every expenditure and increased government revenues by 48% by cutting down on corruption and increasing tax compliance.
CULTURAL SCIENCE RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, INC.
ReplyDeleteDr. Amos M.D. Sirleaf, Vice President/Lecturer
914 East Tantallon Drive
Fort Washington, Maryland 20744
(301) 292-7111; (301) 367-0413
Email: amdsirleaf@hotmail.com
Website: www.geocities.com/amdsirleaf or blacology.com
September 23, 2009
The Chair
Search Committee
Dear Search Committee Chair:
I write to express my interest in the Full Time Faculty Position on Prince George’s Campus and DC Takoma Campus to teach courses in the Humanities and Social Science Disciplines. I have attached my curriculum vitae and cover letter for your review and consideration. My areas of expertise include the following:
· Proven Leadership and Management Skills
· Proven ability in University Advancement
· Effective Teaching and Communication Skills
· Expert in Research Methods
· Specialist in International and African Affairs
· Expert in Conflict Management and Resolution
· Specialist in Law Enforcement-Criminal Justice, Safety and Security Improvement
· Advance knowledge and experience in Student Relations, Recruitment, and Retention, and Advisement
As my Curriculum Vitae shows, I have a Ph.D. in African Studies with an emphasis in Conflict Resolution Management and International Relations from the Department of African Studies and Research, from Howard University, Washington, D.C.; a Master’s degree in Sociology and a Bachelor’s degree in Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, from Prairie View A&M University in Texas.
I have over ten years of proven leadership and management experience in a senior level academic research and teaching position, with a strong commitment to university advancement, academic quality, excellence in research, with a demonstrated ability to establishing clear goals and leading an effective academic and administrative team.
In 1989, I joined Professor Walter Cross to establish a Cultural Science Research and Development Institute, where I serve as Vice President and Lecturer. The Institute’s mission is to provide quality education through teaching and research methods to ensure that students acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to become productive members of society. In my role as Vice President, I participate in institute’s governance for advancement and to establish objectives, policies, and procedures and to coordinate instructional materials.
Besides my excellence leadership skills, I have the passion for counseling, combined with the unique qualities to teach variety of courses, including Comparative and International Relations, Conflict Resolution Management, African/African-American History, Sociology of Developing Countries at a university level, while serving as mentor. Presently, I serve as an Adjunct Professor at Strayer University.
From 1989 – 2004, I worked as a Commissioned Police Officer at the Howard University Campus Police Department, where I served as a mediator and utilized my conflict management and resolution expertise to resolve differences and conflicts among students without resorting to violence. I responded to crisis immediately and provided preliminary investigations. From 1997 to 1999, I was selected to represent Howard University Campus Police Department to assist in the provision of training fellow police officers at the Consortium of Universities of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Law Enforcement Police Academy. At the Academy, I trained officers the techniques of mediation and conflict resolution to reduce the threats of suicide and suicide among police officers and students
During my service at Howard University, I used the diversity of my professional and personal experiences to clearly convey message to the students, faculty and staff. Over the years, I have given orientation presentations to incoming Howard University Law students educating them about the Mission of Howard University, its cultural diversity, safety and security at Howard University in general and the School of Law in particular.
September 23, 2008
ReplyDeleteDear Dr. Sawyer:
I am writing to recommend Dr. Amos Sirleaf for the position of President of your national university. To the best of my knowledge, Dr. Sirleaf is qualified to occupy this post for three important reasons. I will develop each of these arguments in support of his application and to ask you to give serious consideration to my recommendation.
The first reason why I believe it would be in the interest of Liberia to recruit a man of Dr. Sirleaf’s caliber, honor and integrity, it is because of whom he is and what he can for that country. He is a native-born citizen of Liberia who took courses with me and throughout this period he reveals strength of character and commitment to Liberian development and political stability. It was with this attitude in mind that I come to the conclusion that his doctoral thesis and the enormous work that went to its creation prepared him to serve both town and gown. As an educated Liberian with many years of residence in the West, particularly in the United States of America, Dr. Sirleaf comes to the job well prepared. Not only do you see the pen and the tongue in collaboration, but the heart and the spirit are united in the betterment of Liberia. Both the students on campus and the villagers on the scattered places of Liberia would find succor and hope in his statements and performance.
The second reason why I support his application rests entirely on his capacity to navigate on the intricate and challenging mental highways of Liberian society. Like many African countries, Liberia has many groups jockeying and competing for power, prestige and resources. Although many entertain these attitudes, a very few have the capacity and the capability to deliver the much needed goods from their fellow countryman. Not only is Dr. Sirleaf exposed to the vicissitudes of life in the U.S. but he has learned from these experiences and would now like to replicate socially what he has learned to articulate among Liberians and fellow Africans. This moment in his life and in the history of his country is critical. Your decision could make a big difference. His command of several of your national languages would make him a valuable point of contact and communication between the leaders and the led.
The third reason why I ask you to give serious consideration to his application is to pay close attention to the activism of Dr. Sirleaf. Those Liberians, Africans and others who know him can testify to his long-term advocacy for Liberia. Not only are his efforts over the years known to many of us, but his classroom performance and his determination to be a living voice of Liberia when young Africans lamented for the plight of their nations and cried with pain in their affirmation of hopes and dreams about better days for Africa and her fifty-plus daughters. Liberia, in the eyes of Dr. Sirleaf, is a nation with historical roots and definite historical consequences for Liberians and blacks around the world. Together with Ethiopia and Haiti, Dr. Sirleaf would affirm, God in his wisdom chose these countries to be the havens of hope and dreams for people suffering from Rudyard Kipling would call “The White Man’s Burden.” Bent of making a difference, Dr. Sirleaf could well be considered a faithful protégé of Blydon, the celebrated Liberia from the New World after the end of slavery to join the ranks of the founders and their successors in making Liberia. There is much history to be made, and he too can join you in your difficult and challenging task of learning and governance.
I hope you will find this letter of recommendation useful. Please feel free to contact me if you need additional information. In the meantime, I wish you well and look forward to your reply.
Sincerely,
Sulayman S. Nyang, Ph.D.
Cell: 240-498-8623
Office: 202-238-231
The development of a negative profile on Black African People, historically presupposes a specific Eurological white racist supremacy as a social construction of reality. A perpetuation of this particular orientation, becomes an institutionalized process by which the system dynamics breeds its up springs to a mathematical formula of transitive property of equality. This, of course, mutates and to grow into the intellectual life of their communities and those around them and their ancestors. From Travon Martin, to Michael Brown. From assassination of Black African people through Americanized Man-Made Diseases, Aids and Ebola. How can one tell as to whether the system of white supremacy racism does not affect Black African People differently based on our different geographic regions, human ecological typology or anthropology? I have, as a Blacologist, come to realize from all indications that, what so every white strategic relationship that affects one Black Person negatively in Africa, in Europe, The United States of America, The Americas, Europe, and the Eastern Blocks must awaken all of us to action. Our cry must be congruently relevant and relegated to the cry of the oppressed people like us. Therefore, we must not isolate nor alienate our excruciation circumstances from our oppressed brothers and sisters throughout the global community.” Racism is the way of the West”……
ReplyDeleteBy Dr. Amos
Dear Dr. Sawyer:
ReplyDeleteI am writing to recommend Dr. Amos Sirleaf for the position of President of your national university. To the best of my knowledge, Dr. Sirleaf is qualified to occupy this post for three important reasons. I will develop each of these arguments in support of his application and to ask you to give serious consideration to my recommendation.
The first reason why I believe it would be in the interest of Liberia to recruit a man of Dr. Sirleaf’s caliber, honor and integrity, it is because of whom he is and what he can for that country. He is a native-born citizen of Liberia who took courses with me and throughout this period he reveals strength of character and commitment to Liberian development and political stability. It was with this attitude in mind that I conclude that his doctoral thesis and the enormous work that went to its creation prepared him to serve both town and gown. As an educated Liberian with many years of residence in the West, particularly in the United States of America, Dr. Sirleaf comes to the job well prepared. Not only do you see the pen and the tongue in collaboration, but the heart and the spirit are united in the betterment of Liberia. Both the students on campus and the villagers on the scattered places of Liberia would find succor and hope in his statements and performance.
The second reason why I support his application rests entirely on his capacity to navigate on the intricate and challenging mental highways of Liberian society. Like many African countries, Liberia has many groups jockeying and competing for power, prestige and resources. Although many entertain these attitudes, a very few have the capacity and the capability to deliver the much-needed goods from their fellow countryman. Not only is Dr. Sirleaf exposed to the vicissitudes of life in the U.S. but he has learned from these experiences and would now like to replicate socially what he has learned to articulate among Liberians and fellow Africans. This moment in his life and in the history of his country is critical. Your decision could make a big difference. His command of several of your national languages would make him a valuable point of contact and communication between the leaders and the led.
The third reason why I ask you to give serious consideration to his application is to pay close attention to the activism of Dr. Sirleaf. Those Liberians, Africans and others who know him can testify to his long-term advocacy for Liberia. Not only are his efforts over the years known to many of us, but his classroom performance and his determination to be a living voice of Liberia when young Africans lamented for the plight of their nations and cried with pain in their affirmation of hopes and dreams about better days for Africa and her fifty-plus daughters. Liberia, in the eyes of Dr. Sirleaf, is a nation with historical roots and definite historical consequences for Liberians and blacks around the world. Together with Ethiopia and Haiti, Dr. Sirleaf would affirm, God in his wisdom chose these countries to be the havens of hope and dreams for people suffering from Rudyard Kipling would call “The White Man’s Burden.” Bent of making a difference, Dr. Sirleaf could well be considered a faithful protégé of Blydon, the celebrated Liberia from the New World after the end of slavery to join the ranks of the founders and their successors in making Liberia. There is much history to be made, and he too can join you in your difficult and challenging task of learning and governance.
I hope you will find this letter of recommendation useful. Please feel free to contact me if you need additional information. In the meantime, I wish you well and look forward to your reply.
Sincerely,
Sulayman S. Nyang, Ph.D.
Cell: 240-498-8623
Office: 202-238-2311