Agenda 20 - 26 November 2016

Is peacebuilding effective? What can peacebuilding in its many forms achieve? Is democracy necessary for achieving peace and are Western approaches to peacebuilding feasible means to approach peacebuilding? If you like to explore those questions, we cordially invite you to the Dies Natalis Conference 2016 of SIB-Groningen with the topic “Peacebuilding on the African Continent”. This year we will explore the various perspectives and challenges on this highly relevant and controversial issue.

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The University of Twente’s Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM) in partnership with the Gender and Development Working Group of the European Association of Development and Training Institutes (EADI), Africa Studies Centre (Leiden University) and ENERGIA invite academics, researchers and practitioners to participate in the symposium: Engendering the Energy Transition. The symposium seeks to create a multi-discipline platform where a number of leading researchers, from the South and the North, will share experiences and understanding about how gender shapes and is shaped by their context. Please register

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Promotie: Etude d'une langue des signes émergente de Côte d'Ivoire: l'exemple de la Langue des Signes de Bouakako (LaSiBo). Promovendus: Angoua Tano. Promotor: Prof.dr. M.P.G.M. Mous

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On 23 November at 16:15 (sharp), Michiel van den Bergh will defend his dissertation Bridging the gap between bird conservation and sustainable development. Perceptions and participation of rural people in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region at Leiden University. Promotor: Prof. dr. A.J.Dietz

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The University of Twente’s Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM) in partnership with the Gender and Development Working Group of the European Association of Development and Training Institutes (EADI), Africa Studies Centre (Leiden University) and ENERGIA invite academics, researchers and practitioners to participate in the symposium: Engendering the Energy Transition. The symposium seeks to create a multi-discipline platform where a number of leading researchers, from the South and the North, will share experiences and understanding about how gender shapes and is shaped by their context. Please register

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A journalistic journey through history and through the current Zimbabwe. Why did so many people emigrate from the Netherlands in the fifties? Why did hundreds of them choose to settle in what was then called Rhodesia, today’s Zimbabwe? And why did so many of them stay after 1965, when the country was led by a white-minority regime, faced an international boycott and was engulfed in a bloody guerrilla war? Journalist Marnix de Bruyne will address these questions in the seminar loosely connected to his book ‘We moeten gaan. Nederlandse boeren in Zimbabwe’. Please register

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Dr Liu (1965), een Canadese kinderarts, is sinds 2013 internationaal voorzitter van hulporganisatie Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Mede dankzij haar doortastende leiderschap werd de wereldwijde Ebola-uitbraak in 2014 bedwongen. Liu begon in 1996 als arts bij MSF. Zij hielp gewonden na de tsunami in Indonesië en stond slachtoffers bij na de aardbeving en cholera-uitbraak in Haïti. Zij introduceerde een omvangrijk medisch hulpprogramma voor slachtoffers van seksueel geweld in de Republiek Congo. Daarnaast werkte zij in vele conflictgebieden, waaronder de Centraal- Afrikaanse Republiek en Soedan. Aanmelden voor de lezing is verplicht en kan via www.lumc.nl/drliu

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