Programme of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences in the field "International Relations > South-South Cooperation > Cooperation with Africa and Asia". You will find information on publications, networks, conferences and more. [editors ilissAfrica]
The International Boundaries Research Unit works to enhance the resources available for the peaceful resolution of problems associated with international boundaries on land and at sea, including their delimitation, demarcation and management (boundary and territorial issues ). This website provides information on IBRU's activities and services, including research and consultancy, training workshops, conferences and publications (many free full text documents). The site also includes a searchable boundary news archive, a publications 'purchase and download' service, and links to other boundary-related websites and online resources.
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A project of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France, which aims at analysing and re-evaluating established concepts and theories about frontiers, (colonial) boundary settings, border disputes and the like in Africa. The site offers you a list of research themes and questions, summaries of papers etc. [editors ilissAfrica]
This website offers you free access to audio files and transcripts of survivor testimonies on the massacre that took place on October 5th 1967, in the Delta State of community of Asaba, in Nigeria (in the course of the Biafran War / Nigerian Civil War). For more information on the project and on the event documented here see: AsabaMemorial.org andhttp://guides.lib.usf.edu/asabamemorial. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
The website publishes articles about mainly political but also other issues (historical, society, ...) of the Nigerian federal states Edo and Delta ("Midwest Region"). Furthermore you will find many links to other interesting Nigerian websites. A further thematical focus is on the artificially created language "Guosa". Its advocates talk about the language as possible future lingua franca for Nigeria and neighbouring countries. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
Introductory information on the Khoisan (also San or "Bushmen") in Southern Africa by the artist Mike Elliot who spent 15 years in that region painting the landscape and the people. Includes a bibliography and further links. [editors ilissAfrica]
"The interdisciplinary research project IMPETUS examines since mid-2000 the main aspects of the water cycle on the basis of two river catchment areas in Benin and Morocco. The main objective is to enable to our partner countries a sustainable management of scarce resource 'water'. (...) The implementing of [Spatial Decision Support Systems] as well as the training and further training in the domain of the water management and the food security are ... key duties of the project." The website offers a lot of information and studies (fulltexts) about the results of the projects, as well as two e-books in Engl. and French with the whole report on Benin and Morocco. The e-books also have chapters on society and economy. [according to site editor’s information] ... [supplemented]
The Ushaidi Platform can be used for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping of a specific topic. It was created as a tool for documenting the post-electoral violent events in Kenya 2008. Meanwhile, a number of other initiatives in Africa use this platform. For a list of projects see table of contents (as at April 2011). Ushaidi Blog was awarded best of the blogs by Deutsche Welle in 2010. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
The Land Matrix is a global and independent land monitoring initiative that promotes transparency and accountability in decisions over land and investment. This website is a Global Observatory - an open tool for collecting and visualising information about large-scale land acquisitions. The institutions behind are CIRAD (Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement), CDE (Centre for Development and Environment), GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) and ILC (International Land Coalition). ... [according to site editor's information]