“ - I don’t want your hope, I want you to panic.” Greta Thunberg has during the last year stated many facts about the climate crisis we are all facing and why we all have reason to panic. But why should we panic!? Not that we don’t...
Uppsala Association of International Affairs welcome all members to the General Elections Meeting on May 21st 2019! The meeting will include the election of all board positions, an accountant and the election committee. Attendance and voting rights are given to members who have, at the latest twenty-one...
Few—if any—countries in modern times have experienced cataclysmic tragedy of the kind that befell Rwanda in 1994: the genocide against the Tutsi. The country has since undergone a fast transformation. As with any extensive and fast reform, not everything has been easy or straight forward....
Den 26:e maj väntar EU-valet. I ett läge där så väl EU-kritiska som EU-optimistiska röster växer sig allt starkare är detta val av stor betydelse för hur framtidens EU kommer att se ut. För att ladda upp inför valet och öka på kunskapen om EU...
På Europadagen blickar vi österut! Det Östliga Partnerskapet är ett samarbete mellan EU och sex länder i östra Europa: Armenien, Azerbadjan, Vitryssland, Moldavien, Georgien och Ukraina. Initiativet till detta togs 2009 och har sedan dess arbetat mot målet om ett gemensamt område av demokrati, välstånd,...
This Monday UF invites you to watch the documentary The Borneo Case, after the screening we will hear director and filmmaker Erik Pauser speak about the making of the film and the current situation on Borneo and in Malaysia In The Borneo Case, documentary filmmakers Erik...
Ethiopia’s economic growth is a result of a development-oriented ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) maintaining the ‘development projects’ hegemony’. Determined to establish a democratic-developmentalist state, the EPRDF gives preeminence to an autonomous policy space enabling experimentation with different economic policies. Focusing...
Every day, we read articles and watch the news to learn about the new developments in conflicts around the world. Yet only rarely do we reflect on the risks associated with procuring this information for the brave journalists and photographers on the ground. We have...
It is time to apply to become a Board Member of the Uppsala Association of Foreign Affairs! To apply, send an e-mail to val@ufuppsala.se where you concisely describe yourself, what post you are applying for and why you think you would be suitable for it. Maximum...
The French version of secularism, laïcité, has had an impact on political debates in France ever since the French Revolution. However, over the last thirty years, this value has become increasingly entangled with French national identity and has been exploited by radical nationalists and populists...