JEFCAS Events archive
Archive 2018-19
About this event
To inaugurate the reviewed, revised and relaunched 12-year old JEFCAS, we hosted an inter-disciplinary interactive panel discussion titled ‘Resurgent, Regressive or Groundbreaking: changes in Africa in the last 12 years’.
Asking the questions was Prof Owen Greene and the audience.
The Director, Dr David Harris, outlined the new vision and long-term and short-term plans for JEFCAS.
University of Bradford Norcroft Centre Ground Floor from 2-4pm, January 30th 2019.
Speakers
Professor Yacob Mulugetta, UCL
Dr Akin Iwilade, Leeds University
Dadirai Chikwenga, CAFOD
Dr Alex Vines, Chatham House
About this event
This event is a part of the JEFCAS Seminar Series 2018/19.
Date and time: Wed 23rd Jan, 16:00-18:00
Location: Pemberton P2.01
Speakers
Dr Olayinka Ajala
About this event
This event is a part of the JEFCAS Seminar Series 2018/19.
Date and time: Wed 6th Feb 2019, 16:00-18:00
Location: Pemberton P2.01
Speakers
Professor Julia Gallagher
About this event
This event is a part of the JEFCAS Seminar Series 2018/19.
Date and time: Wed 20th Feb 2019, 16:00-18:00
Location: Pemberton P2.01
A voice recording of the 'Charcoal power' seminar is available here.
Speaker
Dr Adam Branch
About this event
This event is a part of the JEFCAS Seminar Series 2018/19.
Date and time: Wed 6 March, 16:00-18:00
Location: Pemberton P2.01
Speakers
Dr Afua Twum-Danso Imoh
About this event
This event is a part of the JEFCAS Seminar Series 2018/19.
Date and time: Wed 3 April 2019, 16:00-18:00
Location: Pemberton P2.01
Speakers
Dr Jean Marc Trouille
About this event
This event is a part of the JEFCAS Seminar Series 2018/19.
Date and Time: Tue July 16, 3-5pm
Location: Pemberton P2.01
A voice recording of the 'Continuing Violence and Conflict in South Sudan' seminar is available here.
Speakers
Visiting Researcher, Moses Wawich of the Center for Strategic Conflict Analysis (CESCA) - South Sudan; with Bianca Neff of Petra Peace Builders, and Prof Owen Greene.
Archive 2019-20
About this event
Case studies of South Africa, Nigeria and Tanzania.
Thursday 2nd July at 11.30-13.00 (UK time)
Recording of Covid-19: what is happening in Africa and what are the wider implications webinar.
Speakers
Dr Alex Beresford, University of Leeds, on South Africa
Dr Akin Iwilade, University of Edinburgh, on Nigeria
Prof Anna Mdee, University of Leeds, on Tanzania
Chair
Dr David Harris, JEFCAS, University of Bradford
About this event
16-19 June 2020
About this event
This JEFCAS Special Panel examines the relevance and value of the Nobel Peace Prize for leadership, conflict and peace in Africa.
In October 2019, Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his “efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea”. His achievements since coming to power in April 2018 were said to be the peace deal, which ended a nearly 20-year military stalemate with Eritrea following the 1998-2000 border war, and reforms at home in what was regarded as a repressive state, which included the release of a large number of political prisoners. However, awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize rarely comes without controversy. In Ahmed’s case, he was and still is part of the EPRDF state apparatus. In Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s case, the award was made a month before the 2011 Liberian presidential elections where she aimed to be re-elected. Wangari Maathai won the 2004 prize but recent commemorations of her death in 2015 were decidedly muted in Kenya. The 1993 Prize was awarded jointly to Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk, the former being co-founder of the armed wing of the ANC and the latter president of apartheid-era South Africa.
The Special Panel looks at the criteria, motivations and challenges of awarding Nobel Peace Prizes, but crucially explores the issue of leadership which the Prize is endeavouring to address. What is the relationship between leadership and conflict or peace in an African environment? What can be reasonably expected of African leaders given the historical and political difficulties that they face? To what extent is the Nobel Peace Prize achieving its aims in rewarding ‘good’ African leadership? The three panelists will reflect on leadership, conflict and the Nobel Peace Prize, in particular in the cases of recipients in Ethiopia, Liberia and Kenya.
5.00-6.45, December 10th 2019, in Bright Building R01.02
Speakers
Dr Awol Allo, School of Law, Keele University
Dr Sarah Njeri, African Leadership Centre, King’s College London
Dr David Harris, JEFCAS Director, University of Bradford
Chair
Moses Wawich, CESCA South Sudan
About this event
Wednesday 30th October 2019 4-6pm
Dr David Potts, University of Bradford
About this event
Wednesday 13th November 2019 4-6pm
Dr Benjamin Kirby, University of Leeds
Archive 2020-21
JEFCAS (PSID) and the Africa Research Group (War Studies, King’s College London) are co-convening a seminar series in 2021-2022 exploring our common interests around security, development, peace, and conflict in the African continent.
Building on previous collaborations between Bradford's Peace Studies & International Development and King's War Studies, not least on the football pitch in competition for the Tolstoy Cup, the series features expert scholars and guest speakers presenting their latest research and discussing current affairs with a public audience. All our events are free and open to all, with registration required for our online format. The series is co-chaired by Dr David Harris, Director of JEFCAS, and Dr Kieran Mitton, Co-Chair of the African Research Group.
The first webinar was a panel, 'China and India in Africa: case studies and comparisons', which investigated the presence of China and India in selected countries, made comparisons of this involvement, and explored the influence of BRICS. Guests included:
Simona Vittorini (SOAS) and David Harris (UoB): India in West Africa
Oscar Meywa Otele (University of Nairobi): China in Kenya
Hangwei Li (SOAS): China in Zambia
PB Anand (UoB): BRICS in Africa
Chaired by Kieran Mitton (KCL)
Date: 21st April 2021, 4-6pm
Recording of the presentations is available at: India and China in Africa recording
Dr Hanna Hoechner, School of International Development, University of East Anglia
Date/time: 3 March 2021, 16:00-18:00
Location: Online
Dr Simukai Chigudu, Associate Professor of African Politics and Fellow of St Antony's College
Date/time: 17 February 2021, 16:00-18:00
Location: Online
Recording (of presentation only): Political Life of an Epidemic recording
Date/time: 17 December, 18:00-19:30
Location: Online
Dr Sarah Njeri, Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI
Date/time: 9 December, 16:00-18:00
Location: Online
Dr Colins Imoh, Centre for Inclusion & Diversity, University of Bradford
Date/time: 11 November, 16:00-18:00
Location: Online
Sait Matty Jaw, University of The Gambia & Dr David Harris, University of Bradford
Date/time: 21 October, 16:00-18:00
Location: Online
Archive 2021-22
As the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Liberia, the Deputy SRSG in Sierra Leone, and former President of the Kofi Annan Foundation, Alan Doss is well-placed to follow up his book, A Peacekeeper in Africa: Learning from UN Interventions in Other People's Wars, reflect on his time leading the UN missions in these two countries, and to consider the question of how a reversion to war has been avoided. We will be exploring some of the various post-war stabilisation processes and specifically looking at the roles of international and domestic leadership and the structural conditions that have circumscribed, influenced, or assisted leaderships and thus far the maintenance of relative stability.
Date/time: 18 October 2021, 16:00-18:00, online
Dr Suad Musa
Date/time: 11th May 2022, 16:00-18:00, online
Dr Daniel Mulugeta, University of Birmingham
Date/time: 8 December 2021, 16:00-18:00
Location: Online
Dr Devon Curtis, University of Cambridge
Looking back at peacebuilding in Burundi'
Dr Pamela Nzabampema, Independent Researcher, formerly Quaker Council for European Affairs
Local peace building, Bashingantahe, and local peace committees in Burundi'
Date/time: 24 November 2021, 16:00-18:00
Location: Online
Archive 2022-23
Dr Henry Smith
Date/time: 19th October 2022, 16:00-18:00
Location: University of Bradford
With author, Prof Jonathan Fisher, University of Birmingham
Date/time: 23rd November 2022, 16:00-18:00
Location: University of Bradford
Professor Murray Last, UCL
Date/time: 8th March 2023, 16:00-18:00
Location: University of Bradford
Noufal Abboud, Nordic Centre for Conflict Transformation
The role of natural resources in peace and conflict in North Africa
Dr Amer Bin Ali, Berenice University Benghazi Libya
Enhancing SDGs through natural resource projects in Libya
Haifa M. Riany, Sustainable development programmes specialist
SDG programs and water governance issues in Libya
Date/time: 29th March 2023, 16:00-18:00
Location: Online