Midterm Conference: Sustainable Governance in a Time of Global Flux: Issues, Concepts and Future Directions
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IFG 2 Public Lecture Series: “We disagree on politics, but we eat together” – The parliament as a social space in Ghana, Togo, and Sierra Leone; Speaker: Dr. Anja Osei (University of Konstanz)
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Conference on Sustainability and the State in Africa: How political rules shape conflicts and their resolution, Point Sud, Bamako, Mali
Workshop on The Governance of Sustainable Energy Transitions in the Global South (IFG 4)
From 15 to 17 September 2019, fourteen scholars from eleven countries convened on the Campus of Ghana University, Legon in Accra, in order to discuss the governance of energy systems from a Global Southern perspective. The presentations covered a broad range of regional contexts with case studies mostly from West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire) but also from East Africa (Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya) and South Africa. The scholars also drew on a wealth of different theoretical perspectives.
Kick-off Workshop: Parliaments and Democracy in Africa (IFG 2)
From 18 to 20 March 2018, the workshop ‘Parliaments and Democracy’ took place in Dakar. It brought together three types of scholars: members of the “Do legislatures enhance democracy in Africa?” Project Group, future fellows of the second MIASA Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on ‘Parliaments and Democracy’, and other scholars working on legislatures, political parties, and democratization. Participants came from all over the world, about half of them were African scholars.
IFG 1 Public Lecture Series: ‘Europe’s war’: African migration and the politics of representation in European policy making; Speaker: Prof. Heaven Crawley (Coventry University)
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IFG 2 Public Lecture Series: The relationship between the majority and minority divide of the Ghanaian parliament and democratic governance in Ghana, Speaker: Dr. Seidu Alidu (University of Ghana)
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IFG 2 Public Lecture Series: Elite Power-sharing, Political Instability and the Allocation of Ministerial Posts in Africa, Speaker: Daniel Wigmore-Shepherd, University of Sussex
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How do political events and factors influence the composition of senior government elites? This presentation uses a newly created African Cabinet Political Elite Dataset (ACPED) to demonstrate how political factors such as regime strength or economic growth, along with key events such as elections or mass protest, exert influence on how leaders or regimes compose the highest echelons of their government.
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Conference on Migration, Mobility and Forced Displacement
IFG 1 Public Lecture Series: International Migration from a Cross-Regional Perspective: African and Asian domestic workers in the Gulf, Speakers: Prof. Akosua Darkwah, Dr. Leander Kandilige and Dr. Stefan Rother
