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...
The lecture seeks to examine the state of higher education in South Africa since 1994. Its premise is that South African higher education system is in good health and is internationally competitive. However, there is a paradox. The lecture seeks to prize open that paradox....
Important! The time is changed, the lecture now starts at 18:15. It is a quickly changing and unstable, but nonetheless interesting world we live in today, and the responsibility shouldered by the world’s diplomats is not getting any lighter. Diana Janse has seen all the sides there...
The Star Wars generation comes of age: Youthonomics & Nomadism in the 21st century Ever-nearing singularity and travel to Mars and beyond; end of Western hegemony but persistent centralization of the global narrative; drift into irrelevance of the nation-state and the inter-national system it underpins; hidden,...
På måndag den 14 mars har vi äran att välkomna riksdagens utrikesutskott för en diskussion om Sveriges utrikespolitik! Anmäl er i länken för att få en plats: https://www.alumnnatverk.uu.se/public/showform?fID=58 Utrikesutskottet kommer hit för att bemöta Uppsalas studenter i en dialog. En panel med representanter från nästan alla riksdagspartier...
Activist, author, former politician, Malalai Joya, has become a center piece of the struggle for justice in Afghanistan. Malalai is renowned for her work to secure rights for women in Afghanistan and criticism of the occupation of Afghanistan by United States, NATO and the regime...
Valet 2016 i USA är det mest dramatiska och vildaste i modern tid. Inom båda partier har oväntade kandidater ställt etablerade sanningar på ända och helt ändrat den normala dynamiken runt hur presidentkandidater utses. Men vad pågår bakom kulisserna och hur beter sig de olika...