[video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://ufuppsala.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2.mp4"][/video] It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 2020 Annual Electoral Meeting of the Uppsala Association of Foreign Affairs! The meeting is your opportunity to ask questions regarding the upcoming operational year’s operational plan and regulatory budget, and above all, vote...
Hi there! Are you an avid follower of international relations and questions, and want to organize a project that you think is missing in UF? Then YOU can apply for UF’s project financing to make your ideas come to life! UF has set aside a sum of...
Dear members of UF Uppsala, Here follows an update of the situation for our activities due to the coronavirus. As previously stated, we at UF Uppsala base all our decisions on the advice and guidelines of Uppsala University and the public authorities. Yesterday, after stricter guidelines...
Dear members of UF Uppsala, Here follows an update due to the new Covid-19 (Corona) virus. UF Uppsala follows the development closely and will base our decisions on the advice and guidelines of Uppsala University and the Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten). The association takes...
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....
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...
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...