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• 24 jui 2018

  25 jui 2018

  Brisbane

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Global Justice and New international Ordrer: The Case of Sino-african Relationships

  The reconfiguration of the current world order within the contemporary international society constitutes the general framework of our reflection. Emerging countries such as Brazil, Russia, India and China aim to weigh on the course of history and to re-shape a balance of powers dating back to the end of the twentieth century. These countries intensify their external policies towards strategic areas rich in raw materials, especially in Africa, where Western nations also have interests. The persistence of global poverty, according to Pogge, refers to global justice, since this phenomenon results from a world order that structurally endorse an injustice which, furthermore, is not in line with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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• 03 jui 2014

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Une violence d'exception ?

  Transgression de normes et franchissement de seuils en contexte colonial et impérial (XIXe-XXe siècles)

  La violence s’affranchit-elle, aux marges des Empires, des normes censées la régir en métropole ? La question du franchissement de seuils est centrale pour l’étude des violences coloniales et impériales. Cette journée d’étude se propose de l’aborder sous deux angles. Synchronique, d’abord : de quelles transgressions, réelles ou perçues, s’accompagnent les éruptions de violence impériale ? Diachronique, ensuite : comment les nations qui succèdent aux Empires héritent-elles de ces transgressions ?

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