Do you want to better understand how the United Nations actually works? Are you interested in international affairs and want to inspire others to get involved? Do you want to help create an international conference which brings together ambitious students from around the world? Then...
The board of Uppsala Association of International Affairs welcome all members to the general meeting with elections on May 15th 2016! The meeting will include the election of all board positions, accountant and the election committee. Attendance and voting rights are given to members who...
In 2014 Anders Kompass, director for field operations for the office of the high commissioner for human rights in Geneva, received a report about alleged sexual assaults on children committed by French peacekeeping soldiers in the Central African Republic. This information was not passed to...
Under de senaste decennierna har Folkrepubliken Kina förvandlats från ett slutet och fattigt land till en ekonomisk och politisk stormakt. Taiwan har genomgått en genomgripande demokratiseringsprocess och den forna brittiska kronkolonin Hongkong har införlivats med den kinesiska folkrepubliken under formeln ”ett land, två system”. Samtidigt...
The outcome of the UK referendum will determine the future of UK-EU relations for years to come. What are the arguments for and against Unitied Kingdom leaving the EU? What will be the political and economic consequences for both sides and how will a possible...
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...
Photo: UNICTY On Holy Thursday, the seven years long prosecution against Bosnian-Serb war criminal Radovan Karadžić reached its end. As former leader of Republika Srpska – the Serb-dominated territory within Bosnia and Herzegovina – Karadžić was recognized as the mastermind behind many of the exceptional brutalities...
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....