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Objetivos
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Geopolitics of Sub-Saharan Africa – Political Transitions in Africa (6th edition - 17-21 June 2024)
Duration: 20 hours of classes
Language: English
Mode: online (Zoom)
Certificate of participation: issued to students who attend 80% of the classes.
Credit: 6 ECTS awarded by FCSH/UBI (optional, upon the positive evaluation of an essay with 6000 words).
Frequency fee: 50 euros
Discount: 50% for students and staff of the institutions involved in the scientific committee and Portuguese public entities
Scholarships: 24 (see application requirements)
Value of the scholarship: 200 euros
Application deadline: 07/06/2024 |
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Competências do curso
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17th of June 2024
14h-16h
Turkey in Africa: A New Emerging Power?
Prof. Dr. Elem Eyrice Tepeciklioglu - Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey
16h-18h
Deepening and Expanding Sino-African Relations: The Development of Partnerships between China and African States
Dr. Yichao Li - Institute of African Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, China
18th of June 2024
14h-16h
Political Transition in Africa: A view from the Horn of Africa
Dr. Yonas Ashine Demisse - College of Social Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
16h-18h
EU external action on peace and state-building in Somalia and Mali
Dr. Ana Carina S. Franco - Portuguese Institute of International Relations - IPRI NOVA, Portugal
19th of June 2024
14h-16h
Is Liberal Democracy Failing in Africa or Is Africa Failing under Liberal Democracy?
Prof. Efem N. Ubi - Acting Director of Research and Studies, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Nigeria
16h-18h
Democratization in Africa: The development condition revisited
Prof. Manuel Couret Pereira Branco – University of Évora, Portugal
20th of June 2024
14h-16h
Continuities, Transformations, and Roots of Political Turbulence in Ethiopia, 1974-2024
Prof. Jan Zahorik - Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
16h-18h
Authoritarianism and the fight against extremist groups/terrorism in Africa
Prof. Fernando Luz Brancoli - Institute of International Relations and Defense of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IRID - UFRJ), Brazil
21st of June 2024
14h-16h
Civilian crisis management in Africa
Ambassador José Costa Pereira – former Director of Pan African Affairs of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and current Portuguese Ambassador in South Africa, Portugal
16h-18h
Analysing (In) formal relations and networks in Security Force Assistance: The case of Niger
Prof. Nina Wilén - Lund University and the Director for the Africa Programme at Egmont Institute for International Relation, Sweden |
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Saídas Profissionais
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Organizers:
• Department of Sociology, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of Beira Interior (FCSH/UBI)
• OBSERVARE, Observatory of External Relations, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL)
• Centre of International Studies, Iscte – Lisbon University Institute (CEI-Iscte/IUL)
• Institute of National Defense (IDN), Ministry of Defense, Portugal.
Scientific committee:
• Alberto Neves Marinheiro (IDN), Lisbon, Portugal;
• Aleksi Ylönen (CEI-Iscte/IUL), Lisbon, Portugal;
• Mürsel Bayram - Department of African Studies at the Institute for Area Studies at the Social Sciences of Ankara University, Turkey;
• Francisco Leandro - Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, China;
• Isabel Ferreira Nunes (IDN), Lisbon, Portugal;
• Gilberto Oliveira – Institute of International Relations and Defense (IRID) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil;
• Ricardo Sousa (FCSH/UBI), Covilhã and OBSERVARE/UAL, Lisbon, Portugal;
• Yoannes Tekalign Beza, Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS)
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. |