About: Peter W. Van Arsdale
Peter W. Van Arsdale, Ph.D., is recently retired as director of African Initiatives at the University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, where he also served as Adjunct Professor. He previously served as a senior researcher for eCrossCulture Corporation, based in Colorado. An applied cultural anthropologist, he has worked in E. Africa, S.E. Asia, the Balkans, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America, emphasizing community water resources, human rights, refugee resettlement, and humanitarian intervention. He is a noted author, journal editor, and former president of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology and known analytically for his “tree of rights” and his “theory of obligation.” He is co-founder of The Denver Hospice, and co-discoverer of
