Featured Project: BRIDGES

The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS) recently hosted the launch of the BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition. BRIDGES is a global sustainability science coalition established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) Management of Social Transformations Programme. BRIDGES was established in March 2021 at the UNESCO Management of Social Transformations Programme Intergovernmental Council.

Recent Publications: "Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa"

Professor James Ogude and Dr Tafadzwa Mushonga's co-edited volume on "Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa" has been published by Routledge. The book brings together together perspectives on resource exploitation to expose the continued environmental and socio-political struggles in post-colonial Africa. Colonial patterns of resource use and capital accumulation continue unabated on the continent, making environmental and related socio-political problems a dominant feature of African economies.

Featured Event: Fifteen Diplomats on a Powder Keg: Africa and the United Nations Security Council

On 24 October 2022, the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS) and the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) hosted a one-day high-level policy dialogue at Future Africa, and it sought to evaluate the impact of the UN Security Council on conflict management efforts in Africa. The event was attended by 22 diplomatic missions; South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation; the Department of Economic Development; heads of UN agencies; civil society; media scholars; and students. Recordings of the event and a policy brief were released in early 2023.