WAPSN Workshop 2018, Portsmouth, UK,17th-18th of May 2018
The West Africa Peace and Security Network’s annual workshop “New Thinking on West African Security Challenges” will be held at the University of Portsmouth on the 17th-18th of May 2018. The workshop will discuss new approaches on security challenges in West Africa including highly relevant topics such as the role of foreign powers for West African peace and security; the AU and ECOWAS’ approaches to address peace and security on the continent; non-state actors, violent extremism, security and knowledge production in West Africa. Participants include academics and experts from West Africa, the UK and Europe. For more details, please see the workshop programme.
You can view the poster here, which contains a link to book your place. Bookings can also be made here – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wapsn-workshop-2018-new-thinking-on-west-african-security-challenges-tickets-45555889893
WAPSN Symposium 2018, Bamako, Mali, 4-5th of May 2018
The West Africa Peace and Security Network (WAPSN) is organising its fourth annual symposium in Bamako, Mali on 4-5 May 2018 at the Ecole de Maintien de la Paix (The Peacekeeping School). This event aims to create the space, time and opportunity for the free exchanges of ideas, scientific cooperation and practical interaction between policy and academic worlds. Each year highly topical issues are chosen to foster this exchange of ideas and provide a series of policy-relevant insights on peace and security in West Africa.
Participants include academics and experts, mostly from West Africa, the UK, continental Europe and Canada. Participants also include practitioners from a variety of organisations such as: civil society organisations (e.g. the West African Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), diplomatic services, armed forces and regional and international organisations (e.g. ECOWAS, the UN, the EU), and research and training institutes (e.g. the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD) and the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies (IPSS), University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
For more details, please see the symposium programme.