Sub-regional Methodological Workshop for Southern and Eastern Africa

CODESRIA Sub-regional Methodological Workshop for Southern and Eastern Africa was held from 26 to 30 January 2015 at the African Institute for Capacity Development (AICAD) in Juja, Kenya. The workshop was attended by twenty participants including laureates from South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Gambia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Rwanda, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania...

CODESRIA E-newsletter No. 11: January 2015

Comparative Research Networks Methodology Workshop (Yaoundé, Cameroon)

From November 26 to 28, 2014, CODESRIA organized the methodology workshop for its 2014 Comparative Research Networks in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The CRN program seeks to promote and support comparative research in the thematic areas highlighted in CODESRIA’s strategic plan. 6 winning networks were selected in the 2014 competition. The workshop saw 28...

Calls for 2015 competitions

Calls for 2015 competitions: The Council has released calls for its 2015 Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition, Multinational Working Groups Competition, National Working Groups Competition and Comparative Research Networks Competition, the Small Grants Program for Thesis Writing, Doctoral Scholarships and the Joint proposals for Research networks and...

The African Higher Education Summit

The African Higher Education Summit will be held in Dakar on March 10-12, 2015. Organizing institutions include CODESRIA, IDEP, TrustAfrica and the National Research Foundation of South Africa and the African Development Bank. The theme of the summit is ‘Revitalizing higher education for Africa’s future. Find out more about the summit at...

The World Social Science Forum 2015

The World Social Science Forum 2015 will be held in Durban, South Africa from September 13 to 16, 2015 with CODESRIA and the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa as its joint hosts. The theme for the forum is ‘Transforming global relations for a just world.’ Read more about the forum and how to submit abstracts by the March 1, 2015 deadline at...

Inaugural Summer School on ‘Interdisciplinarity and Methodological Challenges in Regional Studies’

CODESRIA will organize an inaugural Summer School on ‘Interdisciplinarity and methodological challenges in regional studies’ in collaboration with the Center for African Studies at the University of Basel in Dakar from March 23 to 27, 2015.

‘Victims at the Center: Victim-sensitive approaches to redressing gross human rights abuses in Africa

In collaboration with the African Peacebuilding Center in Nairobi, the COSESRIA-SSRC/APN Program on International Criminal Justice, Peace and Reconciliation in Africa will hold an open forum in Nairobi. The open forum on the theme ‘Victims at the Center: Victim-sensitive approaches to redressing gross human rights abuses in Africa’ and the date is April...

International Conference on ‘Youth Unemployment in Africa’

CODESRIA will organize an international conference on ‘Youth unemployment in Africa’ in Harare, Zimbabwe on February 26-27, 2015

EVD Roundtable

On November 6, 2014 CODESRIA organized a roundtable discussion on the theme ‘Ebola through the prism of the social sciences.’ At a critical moment in the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak that has most significantly troubles the Mano River Basin countries, the meeting sought to explore the contributions that the social sciences could bring to understanding and...