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Roland Marchal, CNRS, SciencesPo

For a longtime observer of armed conflicts in Central and Eastern Africa, it is striking that we are witnessing a higher number of conflicts than in 1991. This presentation will address several recurrent aspects. First, Marchal will address the intricacies of violence and local politics. Second, the organization of armed groups frequently does not correspond to the kind of violence they are exercising on the population. And third, paradoxically, the international community has often been unable and unwilling to frame its understanding of conflict, with the consequence that transitions to peace are becoming more problematic, while international support for conflict grows.

Hosted by Brooks Center on Global Democracy with support from the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and the Institute for African Development.

Nuclear weapons and associated technologies have been primarily developed by and for Global North nations, often using the labor and natural resources of indigenous populations around the world, and often doing violence to those populations and their environments. As a result, many scholars analyze the development of nuclear technologies–including uranium mining, the processing and production of fissile materials, nuclear weapons testing, and use–as a form of colonialism. But as a state-centric framework, colonialism does not always capture practices that transcend national boundaries; radioactivity does not respect borders. This panel will elucidate the uses and limitations of the colonial framework for understanding the social and political implications of nuclear technologies. The panel will discuss how nuclear technologies have been developed in ways that are both locally specific and globally-interconnected, and the implications of this history for social and environmental justice.

Virtual panel discussion with-

Vincent Intondi, PACS Domestic Affiliate Scholar

Myrriah Gomez, Associate Professor at University of New Mexico

Mary Mitchell, Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers Newark

Magdalena Stawkowski, Assistant Professor at University of South Carolina

Hirokazu Miyazaki, Former Director of the Einaudi Center, Professor at Northwestern University

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Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

This session will describe opportunties for undergraduate and graduate students in the Institute for European Studies and the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

IES offers a minor in European Studies, Global Summer Internships, a Graduate Fellows Program, and research funding for both undergraduate and graduate students. PACS offers fellowships, funding, and research travel grants for undergraduate and graduate students.

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The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. Students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year. Recent graduates are welcome to apply through Cornell.

The Fulbright program at Cornell is administered by the Einaudi Center for International studies. Applicants are supported through all stages of the application and are encouraged to start early by contacting fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu.

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