Responding to Conflict in Africa: the United Nations and Regional Organizations

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At this event on 16 May 2014 Dr. Jane Boulden discussed the findings from her edited volume Responding to Crisis in Africa: the United Nations and Regional Organizations which came out in a second edition in 2013.


With a particular focus on the implications of the nature of this UN-regional interaction for the UN, the talk affirmed some traditional assumptions about UN-regional cooperation while challenging others.

Conflicts and Post-Conflicts Dynamics (DRC and Rwanda): Occult Beliefs versus Modern Politics, Truth versus Justice and Justice versus Peace

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In this talk, co-sponsored by the Centre for International Studies (CIS), the African Studies Centre, and the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group, Alex Ntung provides insight into the significance of occult beliefs dynamics in the construction of modern political ideologies and discusses examples of transitional justice mechanisms - Truth versus Justice (Rwanda genocide) and Justice versus Peace (DRC peace building).

Roundtable

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Speakers: Mark Philp (University of Warwick), John Dunn (University of Cambridge), Joanna Innes (University of Oxford), Jon Mee (University of York), David Hine (University of Oxford), Oscar Cox Jensen (Kings College London), and Elizabeth Frazer (University of Oxford)

This event on 22 April 2014 was a celebration and critical evaluation of thework of Mark Philp.

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