Thursday 27th May 2021 – 5pm BST (UK time) Please note this webinar will be delivered in Portuguese. Moçambique e Cabo Verde são dois países unidos pela mesma língua, mas com trajectórias políticas diferentes. Enquanto o primeiro é visto como o espelho de uma democracia deficitária, Cabo Verde é por sua vez tido como um […]
GDAI Webinar #8 – The challenge of state-making in South Sudan: the shifting everyday realities and experience of violence and conflict
Wed 25 March 2021, 5-6pm (UK Time – GMT+0) Conventional interpretations of Civil Society often overlook the myriad ways in which civic actors constitute authority and negotiate for change in fragile states. This omission has significant implications on how civil society sectors evolve and receive external support. Drawing on South Sudan as a case study, […]
GDAI Webinar #7 – Sudan at the crossroads: hopes and fears for the future
Following the popular revolution and the end of military rule in Sudan in 2019, there were great hopes for change in the future, both within the country and across the Sudanese diaspora. Since then, in 2020 Sudan has been buffeted first by the COVID-19 pandemic and then by severe flooding in August 2020, and the […]
GDAI Webinar #5 – Governing the Environment in Kenya: Confronting Contending Norms in a Plural Legal System
We are delighted to announce the 5th GDAI Webinar which will be featuring a fabulous speaker, Prof Patricia Kameri-Mbote from the University of Nairobi! Title: Governing the Environment in Kenya: Confronting Contending Norms in a Plural Legal System Date and Time: Wednesday 28th October 2020, 3pm UK time Speaker: Patricia Kameri-Mbote (University of Nairobi) Chair: […]
GDAI Webinar#3 – The Angolan political transition: challenges to find the right path for sustainable development – with Fernandes Wanda
On Thursday 31st October 2019 – 5pm UK time -Fernandes Wanda, current PhD student(Final Year)in Development Studies (awarded the Mo Ibrahim GDAI Scholarship) will discuss the recent Angolan political transition from a sustainable development perspective. Although the recent political transition in Angola, from Dos Santos to João Lourenço, is regarded as exemplary by the MPLA […]