Välkomna på paneldiskussion om den transatlantiska slavhandeln: I samarbete med Uppsalas Socionomstudenter arrangeras en debatt som ämnar att redogöra för Sveriges del i den transatlantiska slavhandeln. Fredrik Thomasson från Uppsalas Universitet kommer redogöra för den historiska bakgrunden i ämnet. Utifrån sin forskning i ämnet kommer han...
// Space for this event is limited, see information on registration below. // How a bi-lateral civil society organisation can be created and active - a discussion with Women for Sustainable Growth: Civil society has an important role within international affairs. It has the power to build...
On September 26th, the Government of Colombia and FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), signed a peace agreement in Cartagena after four years of negotiations to end the 52-year civil war. The agreement includes agreements on six major areas (five thematic and one more procedural)...
UF Uppsala välkomnar den tidigare FN-soldaten och statsvetare Oscar Karlflo att berätta om den pågående svenska FN-insatsen i Mali. Insatsen i Mali är den första under FN-flagg på många år för Sverige. MINUSMA, som är det officiella namnet, räknas som den farligaste FN-insatsen i världen med...
Det säkerhetspolitiska klimatet i vår del av världen har försämrats. De baltiska staterna har alltmer hamnat i blickpunkten som ett område där Ryssland försöker öka sitt inflytande. Det påverkar såväl stabiliteten i Östersjöområdet som Sveriges säkerhet. I händelse av ryska militära operationer riktade mot Baltikum...
Welcome to the first lecture of this semester; UF Uppsala presents in collaboration with Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice: A panel discussion about Brexit! Thursday the 23rd of June voters in the United Kingdom voted in a referendum on continued membership of the European Union....
Myanmar has over the past few years gone through dramatic changes towards a more democratic state, though serious challenges remain. After elections in 2010 that were considered flawed and bi-elections in 2012 during which Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn into the parliament, reasonably fair...
Welcome to UF's and FEMJUR's last collaboration for this semester! The topic of the lecture is really the perfect match for our associations and we are super excited to end with a lecture on such an important and interesting subject. Don't miss out on this...
Preventing conflicts, handling crises and armed conflicts and eventually establishing peace is best done if based on a solid conflict analysis. A conflict analysis is essentially a map in 1:100 000 including all actors, their interests and structures for peace and conflict. But how is...
What is going on in Turkey? Politics is becoming more conservative and the Turkish government has come to replace ethnic nationalism with Muslim nationalism. It has set up Islamic unity as the new dominant norm in Turkish politics and pressured Kurds to become a part...