The Sandpit Workshop and prestigious John Burton Lecture take place on Thursday 25th of November, all welcome. See the whole day’s full schedule here. <\/p>\n
Sandpit Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n Sub-Sahara Africa: Citizens, Democratization,\u00a0Conflict and Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n Thursday\u00a0 25th<\/sup> November <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:10-9:15 \u00a0Neophytos Loizides <\/strong>\u00a0Welcome and Introductions<\/p>\n 9:15- 9:45 Bizuneh Yimenu<\/strong> \u2018Implementing Federalism in a Developing Country: The Case of Ethiopia, 1995-2020\u2019<\/p>\n 9:45- 10:15 Alex Ntung,<\/strong> \u2018The Hamitic hypothesis and the \u2018Bantu race\u2019 myth: drivers of the Rwandan genocide ideology and constructions of ethnic hatred in Africa\u2019s Great Lakes region<\/p>\n 10:15- 10:45 Kuziwakwashe Zigomo<\/strong> \u2018Pentecostalism, Political Femininities, and Citizenship\/Democratisation in Zimbabwe\u2019<\/p>\n Coffee Break 10:45-11:00<\/p>\n 11:00- 12:00\u00a0 Josephine Sanny,<\/strong>\u00a0Using Afrobarometer for Research and Teaching (Masterclass)<\/strong><\/p>\n 12:00 1:00 Lunch Break<\/p>\n 1:00-1:30 \u00a0Joshua Akintayo<\/strong>\u00a0 Sex Trafficking and Sex-for-Money: Terrorism and Conflict-related Sexual Violence\u00a0against Men in North-eastern Nigeria.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 1:30 \u2013 2: 00 Nadine Ansorg<\/strong> \u2018What determines Trust in Post-Conflict Police? Evidence from Latin American and African countries\u2019<\/p>\n 2:00:3:00 Annual John Burton Lecture by E. Gyimah-Boadi, <\/strong>Afrobarometer co-founder and current board chair; co-founder and former executive director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana); retired professor, political science department, University of Ghana, Legon.\u00a0 More about <\/a>Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi here.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Democracy backsliding in West Africa: <\/strong>why it represents a threat to the region\u2019s stability and prosperity; and what to do about it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In the 1990s and early 2000s, many West African nations embarked on democratization projects. They promulgated new constitutions and or amended existing ones to provide for some degree of independence for the judiciary and election management bodies; imposed constitutional limits on presidential tenure; relaxed restrictions on speech, associational and media freedoms; and allowed multi-party competition. The lecture explores the linkage between democratic governance progress across the ECOWAS region in the first decade and a half of the new century and the region\u2019s relative political stability and economic prosperity within the same period. It also reflects on implications of the democratic governance backsliding taking place in countries of the region in recent years for the region\u2019s overall peace, stability and socio-economic development in the 2020s. And makes recommendations for arresting the growing problem of democratic recession and related political turmoil and decelerating economic growth.<\/em><\/p>\n 3:00-3:30 Break<\/strong><\/p>\n 3:30- 4:30 <\/strong>Roundtable on current projects and future funding possibilities<\/p>\n Anastasia Shesterinina<\/strong>, Civil War Paths Project (funded by UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship)<\/p>\n Edward Morgan-Jones<\/strong>, Citizen Preferences in the Design of Effective Peace Settlement (funded by US Institute of Peace)<\/p>\n Yvan Guichaoua, <\/strong>Interactions between Jihadists and Civilians in Mali and Niger (funded by Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office)<\/p>\n Special thanks to the US Institute of Peace funded\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Project <\/strong>Citizen Preferences in the Design of Effective Peace Settlements<\/strong><\/a> for supporting this event.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Join Zoom Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/kent-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/6980030236<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Meeting ID: 698 003 0236<\/strong><\/p>\n Emailing Professor Neophytos Loizides at n.loizides@kent.ac.uk<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"