En esta Conferencia se debatirá sobre el amplio espectro de impactos generados por la extracción de recursos naturales en África subsahariana.
Organizada por el Grupo de Estudios Africanos de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid bajo el manto de AEGIS – African Studies in Europe, y financiada por la AECID es el resultado de dos años de trabajo conjunto de investigadores y estudiantes en materia de recursos naturales y políticas.
*Las conferencias serán en inglés
PROGRAMA
14 Abril
09:30 – 10:00
Registration
10:00 – 10:30
Welcome Address
Silvia Arias: Oficina de Acción Solidaria y Cooperación, UAM (Director)
Alicia Campos: International Relations Professor, member of Grupo de Estudios Africanos (GEA)
PANEL I: DEBATES AROUND THE RESOURCE CURSE
10:30 – 12:00
KEYNOTE by CYRIL OBI (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet)
“The Lie of the Curse: Natural Resource Abundance and Conflict in Africa”
12:00 – 12:30
Coffee break
12:30 – 14:30
-Artur Colom & Alicia Campos: “Oil in Chad and Equatorial Guinea: the resource curse revisited”
-Audrey C. Cash: “Examining the development and resource development paradigms for poverty reduction (using the Chad case)”
-Uche Igwe: “Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: What Role for China in Africa?”
Discussant: Jesús García Luengos
14:30 – 16:00
Lunch break
PANEL II: RESOURCES, CONFLICTS AND INSTITUTIONS
16:00 – 17:30
KEYNOTE by ERWIN BULTE (Wageningen University / Tilburg University)
“Natural resources and conflict in Africa: A fresh look at the macro and micro evidence”
17:30 – 18:00
Coffee break
18:00 – 20:00
-Kasaija Phillip Apuuli: “IGAD’s Peace and Security Strategy and Trans-boundary Natural Resources Management”
-Rhuks T. Ako: “Law, (In)justice and Conflicts in Natural Resource Management: Perspectives from Nigeria’s Oil Industry”
-Thomas Kruiper: “Measuring the Effectiveness of UN Sanctions in Angola, Liberia, and the DRC Congo”
-Hoinathy Remadji: “Monetarization of social interrelations in the Chadian oil zone: money in the core of family interrelations and alliances”
Discussant: Alicia Campos
15 Abril
PANEL III: MINING, WORKERS AND COMPANIES
10:00 – 11:30
KEYNOTE by BONNIE CAMPBELL (Institute d’Études Internationales de Montréal, UQÀM)
“Mining for Development in Africa: Regulatory Frameworks, Issues of Legitimacy, Responsability and Accountability”
11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break
12.00 – 14:00
-Matthieu Bolay: “The profesionnalization of artisanal gold mining in Upper Guinea: situated risk management within transnational practices”
-Samuel J. Spiegel: “The Politics of Criminalization in Zimbabwe’s Mining Communities: Labour Struggles in the Gold and Diamond Sectors”
-Michael Bürge & Laurent E. Cartier: “Formalising Artisanal Gold Mining in Sierra Leone – On Whose Terms?”
-Jana Hönke: “New political topographies. Mining companies and indirect discharge in Southern Katanga (DRC)”
Discussant: Mbuyi Kabunda
14:00 – 14:30
Jeannette Unite – Visual Artist: “Paradox of Plenty: The Resource Curse in the African Industrial Landscape”
14:30
Closing remarks
LUGAR: Sala de Conferencias Facultad de Filosofía Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Campus Universitario de Cantoblanco
Ctera. Colmenar, km. 15, MADRID
FECHA: 14 – 15 Abril 2011
