Africa’s Place in the New World Order
Continuing education course (15/16 October 2020)
This course addresses Africa’s changing place in the world from a political and from a peace and security perspective. It highlights new academic approaches in the study of the continent’s global entanglements as well as African debates on emerging peace and security issues, including unconstitutional changes of government and transitional justice.
Participants are exposed to a variety of issue areas on Africa’s changing role in global politics and academic ways to address these. They will learn how to read current debates on Africa’s place in the new world order in-the-making and develop an understanding of how African actors are trying to make their voices heard in these processes, and what kind of strategies are employed to this end.
- Africa’s integration into currentprocesses of globalization
- Africa and BRICS
- The African Union and regionalorganizations
- The African Governance Agenda
- Africa and the International Criminal Court (ICC)
- The Horn of Africa and Switzerland
Ulf Engel, Professor of Politics in Africa at the University of Leipzig, Germany
Dominik Langenbacher, former Swiss Ambassador (Somalia, Ethiopia, Côte d‘Ivoire) and Swiss Representative to the African Union
Emma Asige Liaga, postdoctoral visiting research fellow at the Centre for African Studies Basel
15 October 2020, 10am-5pm
16 October 2020, 10am-5pm
The course will take place online and include a preparatory program (without fixed dates) starting on 1 October 2020.
The course is awarded with 1 ECTS credit for the CAS in African Affairs (assessment required).
CHF 490 incl. course documentation; travel expenses, accommodation and meals are not included.
Additional fee for assessment (required for ECTS credits): CHF 60
Registration deadline: 23 September 2020
