Pratt at the time, "would not follow a British or an American curriculum. Pratt worked with national leaders, public servants and administrators to raise funds to expand the university, where he served as principal until He was invited during this time to serve as special adviser to Julius Nyerere, the first president of the newly independent Tanzania.
Nyerere's policy initiatives were well ahead of other post-independence leaders, but his ideologically driven policy of socialism, which he translated into a one-party social, political and economic management model, was flawed. Pratt's support of Mr. Nyerere pitted him against fiercer critics of Mr. Nyerere's more authoritarian practices, most famously Prof. John Saul. Pratt traced the emergence of socialist ideology in Tanzania through the development of the political thought and leadership of Tanzania's first president.
Known for his impeccable scholarship, which included more than 20 articles and books, Prof. Pratt introduced a legion of young scholars to African politics. His former students now populate universities, governments and NGOs in Canada and around the world. In the s and 80s Prof. Pratt began to focus his work on Canadian foreign policy toward Africa and elsewhere in the developing world. In the Cold War context, Canada was keen to join other Western nations in trade and military spending in East Africa to prevent China from exerting influence in the region.
Turmoil in apartheid South Africa, meanwhile, meant that small, neighbouring, newly independent countries were in need of support. Tanzania asked Ottawa for military aid, which it supplied, while academics and activists such as Prof. Pratt helped Canadians understand why it was important to become involved in the affairs of distant developing nations.
Canada had an inconsistent foreign policy regarding South Africa at the time. While Canada denounced racial discrimination in the apartheid state, it took advantage of what a White Paper referred to as "better than normal opportunities" for trade and investment under the country's white regime. Pratt issued his own paper calling for an end to Canada's trade agreements and investments in South Africa, including a ban on the sale of arms and military equipment.
The group urged the Canadian government to support liberation movements in South Africa, step up development initiatives in newly independent neighbouring states and welcome political refugees. In subsequent years, Prof. Pratt worked on themes relating to Tanzanian political economy and the moral and ethical issues relating to development assistance. In response to Reagan-era cuts to social programs and "punitive attitudes" toward developing countries seeking loans, Prof.
Pratt, along with human rights, labour and church organizations, criticized the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for applying policies that "reflect the ideological bias of Western industrialized governments, particularly the U.
Pratt said at the time: "Don't expect to find morality in IMF policy. His notion of "humane internationalism," which underpinned what he hoped might be the basis for Canada's foreign aid and related foreign policies, became an important feature of subsequent discourse on these issues. Robert Cranford Pratt was born Oct.
Cranford's grade school years were shaped by the Second World War, during which time he rose to the level of sergeant major in the cadet corps, leading a march on Sherbrooke Street and, in one famous incident, interrupting a film at the Kent Theatre to make an appeal of support for his battalion.
He graduated with a B. His reward was a year in Paris, where he frequented art galleries and operas. In , he returned to Canada to take up a teaching appointment at Mount Allison University, but he was not there long. Pratt was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in Internationalism under strain : the north-south policies of Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden by Cranford Pratt 11 editions published between and in English and Undetermined and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden have, to varying degrees, earned a reputation for being more responsive to Third World needs and aspirations than other developed industrial societies.
This greater measure of humane internationalism is a product of the combined influence of a wide range of factors that includes religious, political, economic, and diplomatic traditions. The contributors have all worked extensively on these issues; they are neither naively optimistic nor fatigued and despondent about what has been accomplished or what lies ahead. The concluding chapter is a comparative study of the role of humane internationalism in the policies of these four countries and a prognosis of the influence which a humane middle-power internationalism may yet have on Northern responses to the challenge of global poverty.
The critical phase in Tanzania, : Nyerere and the emergence of a socialist strategy by Cranford Pratt Book 29 editions published between and in English and Undetermined and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide. A new deal in Central Africa by Colin Leys Book 24 editions published between and in English and Undetermined and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Buganda and British overrule, : two studies by D.
A Low Book 27 editions published between and in 3 languages and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Municipal labour relations in Canada : a study of some problems arising from collective bargaining between municipalities and municipal trade unions by Saul Frankel Book 10 editions published between and in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide.
Peace, justice, and reconciliation in the Arab-Israeli conflict : a Christian perspective Book 4 editions published in in English and Italian and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide. The inaugural lectures of the University of Zambia by Julius K Nyerere Book 15 editions published between and in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide.
Church and state : the Christian churches and Canadian foreign policy : proceedings of a consultation, Toronto, Canada, 28 September Book 9 editions published between and in English and held by 92 WorldCat member libraries worldwide.
Canadian policy toward the third world : the search for a paradigm by Cranford Pratt Book 2 editions published in in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Canadian policies towards South Africa : an exchange between the secretary of state for external affairs and the Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility Book 2 editions published in in English and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide.
Dominamt [i. Dominant] class theory and Canadian foreign policy : the case of the counter-consensus by Cranford Pratt Book 2 editions published in in English and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide.
Human rights and the International Monetary Fund : an attempt to define a position by Cranford Pratt Book 1 edition published in in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Audience Level. Related Identities.
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