Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective. 
Courses, seminars, & workshops
RSS FeedSwaziland: Workshop for CSOs in Preparation for the 2008 Elections
2008-05-09
The purpose of this workshop is to mobilise NGOs and other civil society actors and equip them with requisite information and skills regarding the electoral law and the Constitutional provisions to be able to use their development/advocacy platforms ...
Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms
Call for Proposals of Case Studies (2008-05-09)
Are you confronting religious fundamentalisms or regressive political-religious movements in your daily life and work? Are you witnessing important links between different types of fundamentalisms (economic, national, social, cultural and religious)...
South Africa: 'Being good in a bad world’: Social representations of morality among township youth
13 May 2008 (2008-05-02)
Based on a multi-year ethnography, this presentation describes township youth's multiple social representations of morality. Drawing on Moscovici's theory of social representations, it details what these might be, how they are empirically elicited, a...
Global: Children and HIV/AIDS: Action Now, Action How
2008-04-24
As the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to increase the vulnerability of children, the symposium Children and HIV/AIDS: Action Now, Action How is an urgent call to collective action on behalf of children affected by AIDS. The symposium, jointly hosted by ...
South Africa: Research and Training Institute of Women's Rights and Citizenship
2008-04-24
Political Studies at Wits University and the Women’s Rights and Citizenship Programme at IDRC are pleased to announce a Research and Training Institute on Women’s Rights and Citizenship, to be held at Wits University from 4-16 August 2008. The aim of...
South Africa: Development dialogue: Education in the New South Africa
2008-04-24
Development dialogue: Education in the New South Africa The DBSA Advisory Unit and Knowledge Facilitation Centre invites you to a viewing and discussion session on the movie ‘Testing Hope: Grade 12 in the New South Africa’, a documentary film by Moll...
International Journal of Transitional Justice Fellows Programme
2008-04-25
The International Journal of Transitional Justice (IJTJ) is pleased to announce the introduction of a Journal Fellows Programme aimed at increasing the publication and dissemination of pieces from south-based transitional justice practitioners and sc...
2008 Guy Mhone Memorial Conference on Development
2008-03-21
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) invites abstracts and proposals for paper presentation at the second international conference it is organising on development as part of its revamped Economic Policy Rese...
CODESRIA Gender Institute 2008
Gender in Contemporary Labour Markets - Call for Applications (2008-04-18)
Each year, since 1994, CODESRIA has organised a Gender Institute which brings together 12 to 15 researchers for between four to six weeks of concentrated debate, experience-sharing and knowledge-building. During the first few years of the existence o...
CODESRIA: Research Workshop
Political Participation in A frica - Dakar, Senegal, 6-27 July 2008 (2008-04-18)
The American Political Science Association (APSA) and the Council for the development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) are pleased to announce the holding of a workshop onPolitical Participation in Africa. The workshop will be held on...
2008 Global Youth Enterprise Conference - Call for proposal
Deadline: April 18, 2008 (2008-04-18)
Present to 350 other experts from the international youth enterprise, employment and livelihood community. The Call for Proposals is now open. Proposal submission deadline is April 18, 2008. Click here for more information. Practitioners, funders, me...
Fellowship available
Research into the History of Sexualities and Modernities in the MENA and Central Asia (2008-04-18)
From 2008 to 2010 the SEPHIS programme will run a research project on ‘Sexualities and Modernities’ sponsored by the FORD Foundation. The objective of this programme is to allow researchers to gain a deeper historical and comparative understanding of...
West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI) 2008 - Admissions open
2008-04-18
The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) would like to announce the start of admissions to the West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI) for 2008. This year’s Institute will be held from September 1 – 19, 2008 at the Kofi Annan Internationa...
2nd Symposium on Academic Globalization: AG 2008
2008-04-18
The 2nd Symposium on Academic Globalization: AG 2008, part of the Academic Globalization Project, is being organized in the context of WMSCI 2008, and its collocated conferences. The purpose of AG 2008 is to bring together scholars, educators and pra...
Global: CSHR Human Rights Summer Courses at Columbia
2008-04-18
The Summer Term’s courses in human rights are offered in conjunction with the Center for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR) at Columbia University. Established in 1978, the CSHR at Columbia University is committed to providing excellent human rights ed...
Global: The CSDG/ECOWAS Peace and Security Mentoring Programme
2008-04-18
As part of its Knowledge Building and Mentoring Programme, the Conflict, Security and Development Group (CSDG) at King’s College London in collaboration with the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), is pleased to anno...
The Guy Mhone Memorial Essay Competition in Development Research
A Call for Entries (2008-04-18)
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) invites entries from scholars based in universities and centers of research in Africa in respect of the annual development research essay competition it has endowed in me...
Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance
2008-04-09
The Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance which will be held on October 19-22, 2008 at the Dusit Hotel, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The theme of the congress is "Gender and Climate Change"....
South Africa: 3rd International Conference on e-Learning
2008-04-10
The International Conference on e-Learning (ICEL-2008) invites researchers, practitioners and academics to present their research findings, work in progress, case studies and conceptual advances in areas of work where education and technology interse...
Three-Week Training session in Peacebuilding - WAPI 2008
2008-04-09
The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) would like to announce the start of admissions to the West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI) for 2008. This year’s Institute will be held from September 1 – 19, 2008 at the Kofi Annan Internationa...
Africa: Guy Mhone memorial conference on development
2008-04-10
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) invites abstracts and proposals for paper presentation at the second international conference it is organising on development as part of its revamped Economic Policy Res...
South Africa: Writing for publication in peer-reviewed journals - 9 April 2008
2008-04-04
The Gender and Development Unit are collaborating on the development of an online workshop on 'Writing for Publication in Peer Reviewed Journals on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Gender and Sexuality'. The aim is to assist experts in the ...
South Africa: Impacting politics with the humanities - 10 April, 2008
2008-04-04
How can work in the humanities be a concrete political tool? How can the knowledge of the humanities be mobilized in socially revolutionary ways? This presentation will reflect on the state of the humanities in Chile and other countries in the proces...
Africa: The fifth continent and the emergency of a new reality - Call for Papers
2008-03-27
The Argentinean Center of International studies invite researchers and specialists to collaborate with a new quarterly publication of the Sub-Saharan African Program, “Africa: The fifth continent and the emergency of a new reality”....
Iraqi voices in Cairo - Seminar Series
2008-03-27
The Iraqi Voices in Cairo is a website project under the auspices of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program (FMRS). The Iraqi Voices in Cairo Project was formed by an association of reporters and researchers working together with the Iraqi ...
NGO Forum at ACHPR, Swaziland
2008-03-28
As is traditional, the African Centre will host the 43rd Forum on the participation of NGOs in the Ordinary session of the African Commission. The forum will deliberate generally on the human rights situation in Africa in general and attempt to bring...
Sudan: Rift Valley Institute Sudan Course - Rumbek
One week to deadline!! (2008-01-25)
The fifth Sudan Field Course will take place from Sunday 8 June to Friday 13 June 2008 in Rumbek, South Sudan. The course is a one-week, graduate-level residential programme offering a fast-track introduction to all regions of the country. It is desi...
Global: Health Worker Migration Community of Practice - Video Conference
2008-03-21
On 31 March 2008 at 1500 GMT these questions will be addressed in a 7-country videoconference hosted by the World Health Organization, Realizing Rights and the Global Health Workforce Alliance. Immediately following the videoconference will be a 3 we...
Africa: ADF Regional Workshop on Nonviolent Conflict 2008
Call for applications (2008-03-12)
Africa Democracy Forum is pleased to announce its Regional Training Program on Nonviolent conflict from 21st -26th April 2008 in Nairobi Kenya. This training will be organized in partnership with the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (Washi...
Africa: CODESRIA : Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Social Science Research
Training of Trainers (2008-03-12)
Are you a lecturer in an African university? Do you have responsibility for the teaching of courses on research methods? If so, this announcement is targeted at you. The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa is pleased to a...
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