"Why has Africa been left out of conversations about protests worldwide?" asked Zachariah Mampilly in a public lecture at theCenter for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery (CCNR) at the School of Public Policy on March 20. Mampilly, who is the director of Africana Studies and an associate professor of political science and international studies at Vassar College, said that since 2005 there have been popular protests in every region of Africa. Many of these protests, however, have gone unnoticed, and are often dismissed as "mere rioting."
News
April 11, 2014
The erosion of democratic principles and the rise of the far right were all topics of discussion at SPP's recent Rolling Back the Rollback forum.
February 11, 2014
Information technology and the ways in which it is being used both by state and by civil society actors has ushered in a new age in history.
November 29, 2013
SPP Visiting Professor Wiktor Osiatynski discussed the changing role of civil society in his native Poland and other former communist countries at a November 26 lecture at at SPP.
Events
March 20, 2015
January 29, 2015