Shifting global influence, competing international norms, and African agency
Next week, CPS/Centre for Peace Studies and SESAM/Centre for Sami studies welcome NORPART partners from Dilla University in Ethiopia. On Thursday, November 20th - we will host an open seminar titled: “Shifting global influence, competing international norms, and African agency”.
UiT staff and students welcome!
Thursday, November 20th: 09:15-13:00 at CPS/Mandela Auditorium
Shifting global influence, competing international norms, and African agency.
09:00-09:15 Coffee/tea
09:15-09:20 Introduction/Welcome
09:20-09:40 Shifting global influence, competing international norms, and African agency. Zerihun Woldeselassie, CPS/UiT
09:40-10:00 The Global - and Unexceptional - Arctic: How Global Change Always Shapes the Arctic. Rasmus Bertelsen, ISV/UiT
10:00-10:20 Afro-Polar Connections-Early beginnings and future prospect, Larry Ibrahim Mohammed, ISV/UiT
10:20-10:30 Break
10:30-10:50 The West and the Rest: Afro–European Relations in Historical Perspective. Dr. Abdu, Dilla University
10:50-11:10 The UN principle R2P (Responsibility to Protect). What is it about, and how does it materialize in an African context? Tor Dahl-Eriksen, ISV/UiT
11:10-11:20 Break
11:20-11:40 Female political figures in Ethiopia and Africa: Yenenesh Temesgen, Dilla University
11:40-12:00 Beyond Beans: The political economy of coffee in Sidama, Gedeo and Guji Belt of Southern Ethiopia. Yacob Cheka - followed by Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony
12:00-12:15 Concluding reflections on current developments in Africa: Zerihun Woldeselassie, and all.
12:15-13:00 Lunch (also at CPS)