Africa Prospects for Peace and Development Conference

On Thursday 9 and Friday 10 November 2006, a conference open to all students and external participants with an interest in Africa.

Aims

The conference will cover a range of countries and a range of topics such as democracy and conflict, ethnic identity, small-scale industry and rural development, public sector reform and natural resource management, with case-studies from Angola, Ghana, Tanzania and the Republic of South Africa.

External speakers include:

• Raphael Kaplinsky (Open University) on the Impact of China and India on African Development
• Frederick Nixson (University of Manchester) on Industrialization in Africa
• John Toye (University of Oxford) on Current Prospects for Africa
• Alan Whiteside (University of KwaZulu-Natal) the Impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa

Conference Details

This conference is hosted by the Bradford Centre for International Development and the Department of Peace Studies. The conference is open to all students at the University of Bradford and external participants with an interest in Africa. There is no conference fee, but external participants will be responsible for all of their own costs.

External participants wishing to attend should register with Jill Gulbrandsen (g.m.gulbrandsen@bradford.ac.uk), Departmental Secretary at the Bradford Centre for International Development.