Profile of the programme
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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 |
Key learning outcomes
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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 |
Occupational profiles of graduates
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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. |