Call for Papers: Extractive Industries in Africa: Addressing Conflicts and Integrating Sustainable Development: 4-5 October 2016
The Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations (HIPSIR), Hekima University College, Nairobi, Kenya, will be holding a two-day conference on 4-5 October 2016 on resource extraction in Africa with the focus of addressing conflicts and integrating sustainable development. This is in the light of new resource discoveries in the continent and the negative experiences found too often in the past. The conference will explore the implications of resource extraction on economic development, environmental sustainability, community participation, revenue distribution, transparency, human rights observance, potential and existing community conflicts, legal frameworks and exit strategies. The discussions from the conference will highlight the existing best practices that give evidence of improvement of quality of life from resource extraction, and the opportunities that the extractive industries create, while equally raising caution on practices that alienate parts of the population, propagate corruption and degrade environment. The outcome of these discussion will be published in a book, HIPSIR’s Africa Peace Studies Journal, and conference proceedings. The recommendations will be useful for policy formulation and implementation as well as for advocacy and inter-stakeholder conflict resolution mechanisms.
Deadline: 1 June 2016
CODESRIA Symposium on Gender: Call for Applications – Session 2016
Topic: Women’s Struggles Today
Date: 9th -10th May, 2016
Venue: Cairo, Egypt
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) announces the organization of the CODESRIA Gender symposium on 9 – 10 May in Cairo, Egypt. This year, the topic of the annual forum will be “Women’s Struggles Today”.
The Symposium will provide an opportunity for African scholars to present their research on the selected theme and also to exchange views with their peers and contribute in the development of an African perspective. All interested researchers are invited to send their contributions no later than 25 March 2016.
Deadline: 25 March 2016
Governance Research Program International Conference On Security Regimes in Africa
21-23 September 2016, Bamako, Mali
CODESRIA’s conference on ‘Security regimens in Africa’ posits processes of securitization as regimens that are performed in manifold ways and for which the need, want and desire are, sometimes deliberately created. They are also regimens that can take a multiplicity of forms, that have a diverse set of meanings and that produce a host of effects on society. The ‘problems’ they ‘respond to’ are numerous and changing with causes and manifestations that run from the local and national to the regional and international. Proceeding from this standpoint the conference seeks to bring together a group of scholars and practitioners to reflect on these processes from multiple disciplinary and methodological standpoints that stand to bring new insights to a much studied area. In the selection process, works that are sensitive to the histories of African countries and societies and that aspire to theoretical innovation while rooted in rigorous empirical research will be privileged.
Deadline: 31 March 2016
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Food Security, Public Health and Governance: Emerging research for sustainable development in West Africa
University of Ibadan, Nigeria, September 5-6, 2016
The West African Research Association (WARA) and the University of Ibadan Office of Inter- national Programs announce a two-day symposium at the University of Ibadan (UI). The symposi- um will showcase innovative research in food security, public health, and governance taking place in the region. We welcome proposals for paper, panel and poster presentations on themes of food security, public health, and governance.
Deadline: 15 April 2016
International Peace Research Association (IPRA) 26th General Conference on “AGENDA FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT”
Freetown, Sierra Leone, 27th November – 1st December 2016
In Collaboration with the 10th Dealing with Disasters Conference Series, Northumbria University, UK and Sakarya University, Turkey
The 26th IPRA General Conference together with the 10th Dealing with Disasters (DwD) Conference intends to help generate interest amongst peace researchers in the global South and North in the way that exploitation of mineral and forestry resources in Sierra Leone and other African, Latin American and Asian countries has caused extensive damage. This is both to the environment and people, not only threatening post-conflict reconstruction efforts but reinforcing structural problems such as poverty. The progress of scholarly activity and its influence through reflection within practice and policy can potentially contribute significantly to the diffusion of this time-bomb to avert future conflicts.
Deadline: 15 April 2016