Posted on December 06, 2013
The United Nations Security Council has paid tribute to former South African president Nelson Mandela, who passed away on 5 December 2013.
Posted on December 06, 2013
The Department of Political Sciences has learnt with great sadness of former president Nelson Mandela
Posted on November 18, 2013
After a violent conflict, governments are under pressure to engage in processes that will lead to reconciliation. Yet what reconciliation actually refers to, how it should be implemented, and how to assess its effectiveness remains a challenge, writes Dr
Posted on November 12, 2013
The methodology for compiling a new global index of the
Posted on November 01, 2013
US president Barack Obama seems to have all but abandoned his four-year effort to "reset" the bilateral relationship with Russia, writes UP Political Sciences Extraordinary Professor, Gerrit Olivier in Business Day.
Posted on October 23, 2013
The Department of Political Sciences, in association with DIRCO, the UN Information Centre and the Embassy of the State of Palestine, will commemorate the United Nations International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on 28 November.
Posted on October 23, 2013
The United Nations Association of South Africa: Pretoria Chapter kindly invites you to its annual United Nations Day event on Thursday 24 October.
Posted on October 20, 2013
The UP Unit for Academic Literacy is in the process of establishing a Writing Centre for the Faculty of Humanities and is calling on suitably qualified writing centre consultants to apply.
Posted on October 03, 2013
The Department of Political Sciences will be hosting an information session on the University of Pretoria-Sciences Po (Paris, France) student exchange programme for senior students on Friday 4 October.
Posted on October 02, 2013
It was with great sadness that the Department of Political Sciences learnt that General Kruys, a research associate of the Institute for Strategic and Political Affairs, had passed away in September.
Posted on September 30, 2013
The Department of Political Sciences invites you to a seminar entitled "The New Era of Kenya's Foreign Policy and Economic Diplomacy in Africa", to be presented by High Commissioner Patrick Wamoto on 9 October.
Posted on September 09, 2013
Dr Martin Welz, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz, recently presented a seminar entitled "The African Union and its fight against internal and external exclusion" to the Department of Political Sciences.
Posted on August 26, 2013
The Department of Political Sciences invites you to a seminar entitled "The African Union and its fight against internal and external exclusion", to be presented by Dr Martin Welz on 3 September.
Posted on August 21, 2013
On 21 August Professor Tim Dunne, Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, presented a paper entitled "Distributing Duties and Counting Costs: The State of R2P after Libya and Syria" at a seminar hosted by the Department of P
Posted on August 20, 2013
Ms Shirley de Villiers, lecturer and PhD candidate in the Department of Political Sciences, was selected to attend the American Political Science Association's annual Africa workshop from 1-12 July in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Posted on August 19, 2013
If the fraudulent elections that took place in broad daylight in Zimbabwe on 31 July were the latest valid reference point for "democracy made in Africa", we have messed up the continent
Posted on August 19, 2013
Ms Faith Mabera, master's student and programme assistant for the Department of Political Science's MDips programme, recently featured in the newsletter of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
Posted on August 16, 2013
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in cooperation with the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa in the Faculty of Law invites you to an exclusive lecture on the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal
Posted on August 16, 2013
Migration is a conveniently ignored reality in Southern Africa. The lack of regional governance is a critical challenge, writes GovInn Research Fellow Dr Chris Nshimbi on openDemocracy.net.
Posted on August 06, 2013
The Department of Political Sciences and Institute for Strategic and Political Affairs (ISPA) invite you to a seminar entitled “Distributing Duties and Counting Costs: The State of R2P after Libya and Syria”, to be presented by Professor Tim D
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