A Lifetime of Global Achievements

We are a a group of professionals dedicated to creating dialogue, advancing research and creating educational programs promoting a more responsible global order.

Linda Lubinsky, Coordinator:

Following studies at New York University (and before that, graduation as valedictorian at Elizabeth High School),  Linda has prepared herself well for the challenging role she now has as Coordinator at the Center for Global Responsibility.

Bob Manley,Founder and President:

Bob Manley (Robert H. Manley) served in the U.S. Navy from 1944-46, mostly in college-based officer training programs and with the U.S. Air Force from 1951-53 as a legal officer (judge advocate). He has the B.A. from Colgate University (1947), the J.D. from Cornell University (1950), the M.P.A from what is now the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1955) and the Ph. D. in Political Science from what is now the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York (1975), where he studied political theory with Dr. John Gunnell and international relations and comparative politics with Dr. Theodore P. Wright, Jr. He studied world history, political theory and the economics of international trade while on a Rotary Foundation Fellowship at the University of Manchester (1955-56). He studied International Law at the Harvard Law School (1953-54) as well as at the Center for Studies in International Law and International Relations at the Hague Academy of International Law (August-September 1959) in a program funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

He has been fortunate to spend considerable time in various parts of the world including: a year in French Morocco (now Morocco) with the U.S. Air Force (1952-53); a year studying in England and traveling in Scotland and Europe (1955-56); two years with the humanitarian organization CARE in Hong Kong/Macau, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Ecuador (1957-59); three years in the Caribbean, with extensive travel, especially in Guyana, while with the Institute of Caribbean Studies and Department of Political Science, University of Puerto Rico (1968-71). He also spent eight months in Ghana and visiting universities in Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), and Zimbabwe, while teaching on a Fulbright grant in the Political Science Department and the Legon Center for International Affairs at the University of Ghana (January-August 1990).

He taught U.S. Foreign Policy as well as International Organizations (focusing on the United Nations) at the Chinese Foreign Affairs University in Beijing (September 2001-July 2002), preceded by lecturing at Wuhan University and visiting universities in Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Xiamen and Hong Kong (May-June 1986). He made research visits to the Soviet Union in 1978, 1984 and 1988 and to all Eastern European countries (except Albania) in 1978 and 1986. 

He has also spent time in Japan (1958 and 1986), Vietnam and Singapore (1958), South Korea (1998), as well as in Thailand, Burma (now Myanmar), India, Pakistan, Lebanon, the West Bank (then under Jordanian administration) and Egypt (Spring 1959). In Latin America he has been, for varying lengths of time, in Columbia. Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico and Venezuela.

In 1975, Bob Manley founded the International Public Policy Institute, a non-profit entity with 501(c)(3) status which has had a consultative relationship with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations since 1984. He edited an annual journal published by the Institute during the period 1976-81 titled International and Comparative Public Policy. He is the author of a book on Guyana’s transformation to independent status, Guyana Emergent: The Post Independent Struggle for Non-Dependent Development (published in 1979 by G.K Hall and Schenkman Publishing Co., new edition published in 1982 by Schenkman) and various other publications in the fields of international law, public policy and related areas.

Bob has taught political science and related subjects at Morehouse and Spelman Colleges, the University of Puerto Rico, Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, the University of Ghana, the Chinese Foreign Affairs University, Seton Hall University and New York University. He served as Director of the Ford Foundation financed Non-Western Studies Program at the Atlanta University Center, and as chairperson of the Political Science Department at Seton Hall University. 

He was one of the founders of the Master of Public Administration program and the Center for Public Service, as well as the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, at Seton Hall University, serving as the initial Associate Dean and then as Director of Graduate Studies at the School of Diplomacy. He is a member of the New York and New Jersey bars.

In teaching political theory, Bob has taken a comparative approach, focusing on the work of important figures from various parts of the world. In line with this approach, he offered a new course under the title “Comparative Political Thought” at Seton Hall University in 1984. When he co-taught, with Professor Mike Oquaye, a course on political thought at the University of Ghana in 1990, the approach involved focusing on both leading figures in the so-called “western” canon and important leaders who had made significant contributions in African Political Thought. 

Bob’s work in the area of what he then termed “Global-level Political
Thought” (GLPT) began in 1978, and included organizing a number of panels focusing on GRPT at International Studies Association annual conferences during the 1980s as well as an eight-day conference on GLPT held at Seton Hall University in June-July 1987, the subject of an article in the New Jersey Section of the Sunday New York Times. 

The global-level political thought approach became an important base for Bob’s current work on globally responsible political thought and public policy. Bob was an early figure in helping develop the concept of International Public Policy and published in 1978, a 103 page study titled “The World Policy System: An Analytical and Substantive Overview” in the journal International and Comparative Public Policy published by the International Public Policy Institute. A revised version was published (1979) in Whole Earth Papers by Global Education Associates under the title “Building the Infrastructure of World Order —A Survey of Global Level Policy Development from 1945 to 1977”. This study dealt with 48 separate global level public policy issue-areas under six categories, namely: common-usage areas, economic, environment/weather, information/knowledge, political, and social. Bob has had substantial teaching and research experience in the public policy area. He taught courses in comparative and international public policy at Seton Hall University and New York University.

Some of the people who Bob has been fortunate to interact with over the years include: Professor Elihu Lauterpacht of Trinity College, Cambridge University; Professor Clive Parry of Downing College, also Cambridge University; Professor Richard Falk of Princeton University and the University of California at Santa Barbara; Professor James Rosenau of George Washington University; Professor Charles Kindleberger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor Gordon K. Lewis of the University of Puerto Rico; Professor Ved Nanda of the University of Denver; Professors Kwame Ninsin and Mike Oquaye of the University of Ghana; Professor Benjamin Ferencz of Pace University; Professor Patricia Mische of Antioch College and Professor Anele Heiges, currently President of the International Public Policy Institute.

His thinking on development imperatives in the developing countries has been affected by the work of Professor Barbara Ward of Cambridge University and Dr. Mahbub ul Haq of the United Nations Development Program. He is making plans to teach at Bangladesh University after having been invited by Professor Quazi Azher Ali, the University’s founder and Vice Chancellor, a fellow Kennedy School graduate.

Board of Advisers, Center for Global Responsibility

Earnest Akah recently studied at Seton Hall University.

Wanda Akin Brown is a founding Director of CGR. She is a lawyer and co-founder of the International Justice Project.

Fay Austin is heavily involved with the Central New Jersey Chapter of the United Nations Association, which she founded.

Janelle Baptiste received the J.D. degree from Rutgers-Camden Law School.  Her interests and experience include the field of International Law as well as juvenile rights.

Russell Ben-Ali is an award-winning  journalist with an impressive body of work from his years with the Star-Ledger.

Raymond M. Brown is a founding  Director of CGR.  He is a member of the New Jersey and New York Bars. He has significant international experience, qualifying  as Counsel before the International Criminal Court in the Hague and having served as Co-Lead Defense Counsel at the Special Court for Sierra Leone.  He is a co-founder of the International Justice Project.

Tara Burns is Judicial Extern with the Honorable Christopher C. Conner, Chief Judge at U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Timur Davis is Director of the historic Orange Public Library in the city of Orange, New Jersey.

Florence Dennis earned her Master’s Degree in International Education Policy from Harvard University’s  School of Education  and is founder of the World Class Education Initiative, Inc., a non-profit based in the Bronx, New York.  She also has a Masters from the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University.

Vera Dimoplon is a graduate student at Seton Hall University.  Her  compassion for others combined with her belief in the dignity of all human beings  shines forth in the way she uses her outgoing  personality and leadership skills in service to those with disabilities.  

Piotr Dudek earned the Master of Arts in Jewish-Christian Studies from Seton Hall University.  He is a Law and Policy Intern with the International Justice Project.

Carol Forbes is a teacher in the Mt. Arlington school district, teaching library research skills, including the technical aspects of the various media involved.  She has also taught television production.

Winston Gilcrease has worked for the non-profit  International Public Policy  Institute,  founded by Bob Manley, President and founder of CGR.

Prof. Aaron Hale, currently teaching at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, has taught regularly at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University. He has also served as a professor at St. Lawrence University.

John Hallock is the author of the inaugural issue of  “GR Reports,”  an occasional papers series by CGR which debuted June 2016.  The summary title is  “Understanding  the Necessity of Sustainability for Human Survival.”  

John received his Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources from Cornell University in January 1991, and his Master of Science in Environmental and Forest Biology (Aquatic Ecology) from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, at Syracuse University in May 2003. His work has been published in the journals “Energy” and “Nature.”

John is an environmental specialist with the New York State Department of Transportation, based at its headquarters in the Albany, New York area.

Ambassador S. Azmat Hassan served as Pakistan’s  ambassador, first to Malaysia, then to Syria, and finally to Morocco.  He was a professor at Seton Hall University’s  School of Diplomacy and International Relations.  He currently teaches at the well-known Lahore University of Management  Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan.

John Jones is Chief of Staff at the Washington, D.C. office of U.S. Congressman Emanuel Cleaver of Kansas City, Missouri.

Jean Kachiga was an adjunct professor at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, and is now a professor at the State University of New York, Brockport.  He has published numerous  scholarly works.

Kadarla Lalitha Kumari  is a political scientist.  She prepared a paper on overcoming  poverty in India, which was delivered by her husband, Dr. Krishna Kanth Tigiripalli in July 2009 at the Congress of the International Political Science  Association (IPSA) in Santiago, Chile.  

Kristal Langford is studying toward her Ed.D.  in Education, Culture and Society at Rutgers Graduate School of Education, from where she was awarded the  Ed.M.  in Learning, Cognition and Development in 2016. Kristal earned the B.A. in Psychology from William Paterson University in 2012.  She will be teaching two courses in psychology (“Lifespan Development” and “Psychology of African Americans”) at William Paterson, Fall 2017.   

Kristal recently held important managerial and supervisory positions (Director of External Partnerships and Program Coordinator) at the Boys and Girls Club of Newark, in Newark, N.J.

Gina Manley is a professional events planner.  She is a graduate of Seton Hall University.

Etondi Mbame graduated with the J.D. degree from New York Law School.

Madison McHugh, from Southern New Jersey, is a student at Seton Hall University’s  School of Diplomacy and International Relations.

Prof. Fredline M’Cormack-Hale is Associate Professor, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University.  She was a Fulbright Scholar, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone.

Teresa O’Donnell has been a lawyer for the “Crown” in Winnipeg, Manitoba, specializing in matters regarding  indigenous people, known in Canada as  “First Nation.”

Siva Pathmanathan is a certified public accountant.

Sharon Perlmutter is a senior at Livingston High School in Livingston, N.J.  She is highly advanced academically and a member of her school’s Model UN team.

Nionese Eunice Prudent is founder and President of the non-profit Haiti Development Project.

Maria Ricardo works for Merck, a major pharmaceutical company.

Heloisa Rooney  is a psychologist.

Gwabene Buhendwa Serge is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is living in the Netherlands.  He co-founded, in the Netherlands,  a youth-led NGO, CODINE, that specializes in improving the lives of migrants with African backgrounds and in promoting intercultural dialogue. CODINE also works to build the capacity of young people regarding entrepreneurship.

Christopher Shields graduated from the College of New Jersey. He has completed a year of teaching in Philadelphia in a program focusing on inner-city schools.

Dale Shuster is Executive Director at Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development.  

Mie-Na Srein went to Kenya to study the Somali language on a David L. Boren Fellowship, an initiative of the National Security Education Program that provides funding opportunities for U.S. graduate students to study less commonly taught languages in world regions under- represented in this regard. She has a Masters from the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University.

Phil Terwiel’s education, which includes studies at Seton Hall University’s  School of Diplomacy and International Relations in the undergraduate program and in the Harvard Kennedy School’s  Masters in Public Policy program, have been part of his preparation for public service. He is now working with the Corrections Department of New York City in an approach which includes literacy and education development, to assist people being discharged from prison avoid recidivism.

Dr. Krishna Kanth Tigiripalli  is Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Kakatiya University, Warangal, India, where he also served as Chairperson of the Department of Political Science. He participated in the Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), July 2009, Santiago, Chile, where he delivered a paper on overcoming poverty in India, prepared by his wife, Kadarla Lalitha Kumari, also a political scientist.

Madeleine Wykstra is studying at the Law School of the University of California at Berkeley, after graduating with an MA in International Affairs from NYU.

Jonathan Zeigler, from Southern California, is a student at Seton Hall University’s  School of Diplomacy and International Relations.