Sumários

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17 Março 2023, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

Chronic internally and externally induced political instability and armed conflict have led scholars to refer to the Horn of Africa as a "bad neighborhood". In the past, the sub-region has hosted some of Africa's rare inter-state wars and currently experiences multiple conflicts within states or their borderlands. However, at the same time, the political environment in the sub-region has recently changed with the leadership transition in Ethiopia, the historical agreement between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the end of a three-decade-long dictatorship in Sudan. While the roots of political instability and violence in the Horn are mainly local, involvement by external within-the-region and extra-regional actors has often exacerbated rivalries and conflicts. This lecture looks into political violence in the Horn of Africa taking into account local and external actors and forces.

Key Questions:
How are historical and geographical aspects linked to political violence and instability in the region?
How has domestic and inter-state conflict evolved in the region?
What are the underlying factors that propelled conflict?
How have conflicts been impacted by the changing regional political environment?

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New wars and failed states; Post-war reconstruction; From peace-building to peace-keeping; Dilemmas of Statebuilding; Conventional and Emerging approaches to state-building

Key Questions:

What does postwar reconstruction mean?
Where does it fit alongside concepts like peacekeeping, peacemaking, peacebuilding, nationbuilding and statebuilding?
What is the Liberal Peace thesis?
What is a failed state?
How did practices of postwar reconstruction evolved?
What are the main differences between the four waves of postwar reconstruction?
What are the dimensions of postwar reconstruction and stabilization?
What are the main challenges identified by practitioners?
What are the key issues linked to international intervention and postwar reconstruction as practiced since the 1990s?
How contested is liberal postwar reconstruction in the literature?
Is liberal postwar reconstruction viable?
What is the concept of resilience and in what way does it affect liberal postwar reconstruction?
How does contemporary postwar reconstruction affect the concepts of autonomy and sovereignty?

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8 Março 2023, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

Key topics:

New wars and failed states; Post-war reconstruction; From peace-building to peace-keeping; Dilemmas of Statebuilding; Conventional and Emerging approaches to state-building

Key Questions:

What does postwar reconstruction mean?
Where does it fit alongside concepts like peacekeeping, peacemaking, peacebuilding, nationbuilding and statebuilding?
What is the Liberal Peace thesis?
What is a failed state?
How did practices of postwar reconstruction evolved?
What are the main differences between the four waves of postwar reconstruction?
What are the dimensions of postwar reconstruction and stabilization?
What are the main challenges identified by practitioners?
What are the key issues linked to international intervention and postwar reconstruction as practiced since the 1990s?
How contested is liberal postwar reconstruction in the literature?
Is liberal postwar reconstruction viable?
What is the concept of resilience and in what way does it affect liberal postwar reconstruction?
How does contemporary postwar reconstruction affect the concepts of autonomy and sovereignty?