Foundation for Education, Research and Development

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Congo-DRC: The role of the Diaspora’
Friday, September 3rd 2004

The main objective of the workshop is to analyse the role that the diaspora plays in peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in Congo-DRC. The workshop’s overall objectives are twofold:

· To promote public awareness of the role, status and economic contribution of Congolese immigrants to the development in post-war situation; and
· to enable people to make informed choices by understanding the major challenges of the immigration process and the prospects for development, in particular the poverty alleviation strategy through remittances.
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Contributions might therefore discuss:
· Remittances and development
· Globalisation and immigration
· Parallel markets in war and post-conflicts situations
· Mineral wealth conflicts
· Entrepreneurship & financing of Ethnic Minority businesses
· Conflicts in the Great-Lakes Region
· Diaspora and peace-building
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The workshop invites papers in English and French that combine empirical and theoretical perspectives on these topics from Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, Migration Studies and related areas. The workshop will be organised by FERD in association with the Centre of African Studies (University of London). It will take place at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London, on 3rd September 2004. To register for this free event, please email your name, title, organisation and contact number to [email protected] .To present a paper, please submit an abstract (maximum 300 words) by 15th August to:

Dr Claude Sumata, FERD. Zenith House, Room 18, 210 Church Road, London E10 7JQ
e-mail: [email protected]