Havard Professor at center of storm in whaling controversy
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Professor Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Havard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
His latest assignment has him right smack in the middle of a major controversy that is threatening to the fracture and possibly splinter the International Whaling Commission.
Kenyan-born Professor Juma is an expert in sustainable development. He is in Santiago, Chile ahead of the annual IWC meeting that opens tomorrow to help mediate between Japan and the IWC. The IWC has for years been locked with Japan over it’s defiance and assertion that whaling is a part of it’s culture.
Despite the fact that a moratorium is in place, Japan has found a loophole that enables it to kill 1,000 whales every year both in it’s territorial waters and in international waters. This has enraged other nations and environmentalists who have turned to the IWC but the body has seemed powerless in enacting it’s authority.
