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...
Okategoriserade / 13.04.2016
A moral compass for human rights – Anders Kompass – UN whistleblower and human rights expert
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...
Okategoriserade / 12.04.2016
Ett mångtydigt Kina
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...
Okategoriserade / 12.04.2016
NEW TIME! Starts at 17.15 – BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO SWEDEN – THE FUTURE OF UK-EU RELATIONS
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...
Uttryck Magazine / 27.03.2016
What’s In a Genocide Verdict?
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...
Lectures / 25.03.2016
The student revolts in South Africa
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...