Africa Peace and Development Network News and events

Africa Peace and Development Network

Mtandao wa Amani na Maendeleo Afrika (MAMA)

Invitation, News and Events

Dear Participant and Friend of Peace, dear distinguished Guest,

On behalf of the Africa Peace and Development Network and affiliates, I am delighted to welcome you to Global Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa (Global Peace), a series of weekly academic and professional discussions on peace education, peace research, and peace activism as well as on the question of sustainable development. Global Peace events take place every Wednesday from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Dar-es-Salaam/Kampala/Nairobi, using the Zoom link below. Please adjust your clock accordingly. We appreciate your participation.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84157580433?pwd=Ny9kRGR1TjBtaHNiTGlFaWU4UW5Mdz09 (No RSVP or prior registration required)

Theme: Forced Mass Migration, Evilution and Culture

Speaker: Dr. Hendrik Bullens, Istanbul, Turkey

Hendrik Bullens:

* Dutch-SouthAfrican multidisciplinary social scientist, trilingual background, based in Istanbul Turkey, Nur-Sultan Kazahkstan and Munich Germany

* doctoral grades from Tilburg University, The Netherlands (NL), in Econometrics, Political and Business Economics (Drs. oec.) – partly under later Nobel laureates Herbert Simon (CarnegieMellon) and Jan Tinbergen (Univ. Rotterdam)

* After graduation14 years at a German-American Management Consultancy group (Quickborner Team Inc.) – conducting projects in trans-national companies, health-care and educational facilities around the world.

* Based on a grant from Volkswagen Stiftung, awarded for two innovative educational projects, this author was able to subsequently study about 3 years at several international universities; 1983 I received a magna cum laude PhD from L-M-University Munich, Germany in Psychology/Educational Science (mayors), Sociology (minor) with audits in Philosophy of Science and Evolutionary Biology (under Theodor Adorno, Frankfurt; then-Oxford-based Jerome Bruner and later Nobel laureates Niko Tinbergen, London and Konrad Lorenz, Seewiesen)

* Ass./Assoc. professor Dept of Psychology; head of the Peace & Conflict Research Unit (COPE), both Augsburg University, 1977-2001

* Head of SISYFOS Institute, Augsburg-Munich, Germany 2001-2011

* Visiting Professor at several international universities i.a.; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands; University of Durban-Westville, South Africa; Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; ENU, Astana, Kazakhstan, invited to Social Science Univ., Ankara, Turkey

* since 1989 repeatedly IPRA Council Member; 1990-2018 co-convener ‘Security and Disarmament Commission (SDC)

* 2008 - today EuPRA Board Member, Program Committee and Publications/International Networking

* 2014 – today Member Advisory Board of Journal of Peace, Security and Development (JPSD), Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, Nigeria

* 2015- 2021 adviser to fm President Nur-Sultan Naserbaev’s Governmental Office ‘Global 2020’

* 2016 - today non-res. Professor of Conflict and Peace Studies, Eurasian National University (ENU), Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan; Advisory Board Member of different CPSt journals, as well as of ENU Research Board – currently preparing the set-up of a Center for Conflict, Peace & Development Studies at ENU, Astana( now Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

*Cooperation with several universities in Central-Asia and Asia-Pacific

* More than 150 publications as editor or (co-)author of books, chapters, journal articles, textbook material, incl. film + dozens of papers at international conferences (recent papers partly to be edited in COPED).

Time:

09:00 a.m. Washington, DC

10:00 a. m. Buenos Aires

03:00 p.m. (15:00) Berlin

04:00 p.m. (16:00) Dar-es-Salaam – Kampala – Nairobi

09:00 p.m. (21:00) Nanjing

10:00 p.m. (22:00) Tokyo

11:00 p.m. (23:00) Melbourne

Date: 1 May 2024

Global Peace MAMA Partners

Thanks to generous offers from peacebuilders, development professionals, specialists, academics, researchers, activists, civil society experts, philosophers and intellectuals from around the world, we discuss pertinent issues of peace and sustainability around the world and across Africa. Global Peace is brought to you courtesy of: Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Egon Spiegel: University of Vechta, Germany; Prof. Dr. Cheng Liu: UNESCO Chair, Nanjing University, China; Prof. Dr. Lester R. Kurtz: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; The Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of Africa and Madagascar (ACUHIAM-ASUNICAM), Mwanza, Tanzania; Global Peace Tanzania Network for Sustainable Peace and Development; Dr. Mariana Covolo: Universidad de Congreso (UC), Mendoza, Argentina.

Our key partners include: Catholic Peacebuilding Network (CPN), International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU/FIUC), International Peace Research Association (IPRA), World Intellectuals’ Wisdom Forum (WIWF), the African Peace Research and Education Association (AFPREA), Mr. Peter Barus, Vermont, USA and the Commonwealth Interfaith Network (CIN).

News and Events

Latest Global Peace Session

We thank Prof. Joseph Camilleri OAM, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia for his excellent presentation on “The Gaza War, the Geopolitical Crisis, and the Impotence of the United Nations”. The recording and chat are here:
https://drive.proton.me/urls/0J8C5WRQ1W#g2vuxjRibeK9

Tanzania Conference Updates

With less than one month before the Tanzania Conference begins, we are pleased to inform you that you can now pay your registration fee on arrival at the MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation (MS TCDC) Conference venue in Arusha, Tanzania. The option to pay online is equally recommended and some people have used it successfully. Thank you.

The International Peace Conference in Tanzania is scheduled for 23rd - 25th May 2024 under the theme “Ujamaa, Ubuntu and New Pan Africanisms: The Future of World Peace”.

Accommodation, meals and shuttle services between Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA) and MS TCDC (popularly known as Danish) will be covered. Therefore, participants need to pay for the registration fee: USD 50 for Africa-based participants and USD 150 for participants from outside the continent who need a special subsidy, and USD 500 for those who can pay full board as earlier indicated. Participants are requested to make their own international travel arrangements to and from KIA. Here is the registration link: https://form.jotform.com/240842605535556

In case one wishes to take part in the excursion to Mwanza from MS TCDC on 26-27 May 2024, an ADDED amount of USD 250 needs to be applied to your base registration. Thus if one is paying the full board of USD 500, one should pay USD 750 in total (for both Arusha and Mwanza). For those who will be interested in the excursion, there will be a possibility for them to board their flights from Mwanza airport or travel by road. We are looking forward to seeing you soon.

Registration Link

In case this link https://form.jotform.com/240842605535556 does not work, please note that the entire registration form is attached.

ONLY IF YOU CANNOT OPEN THE ON-LINE FORM, please carefully send us all the required information via this email address: george.mutalemwa@saut.ac.tz

Thank you.

Visa Information

Here is the link to which one can apply for the visa:

https://visa.immigration.go.tz/

Visit the Immigration Services Website: www.immigration.go.tz

Click e-services button.

Select and click e-Visa Application Form.

Upload and attach the applicants scanned relevant documents for the Visa:

1. Passport bio data page

2. Passport size photograph

3. Reservation/Invitation letter

4. Return flight booking

5. Registration Certificate (MS TCDC TIN CERTIFICATE)

Then, the applicant will receive an e-mail message containing User Identification Number (that may be used to track the application online);

After filling an online visa application form, the applicant will have to pay for a respective visa fee.

Upon successful payment, the applicant will submit his/her application.

After 10 working days the visa will be granted or rejected.

All information is available on the website and the whole process is in English. Some people can also opt to get the visa on arrival.

Donation Requested

As the Tanzania Conference is coming soon on 23 May 2024, we are requesting you to support this important event.

The conference is co-sponsored by:

African Peace Research and Education Association (AFPREA)

Africa Peace and Development Network/ Mtandao wa Amani na Maendeleo Afrika (MAMA)

Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of Africa and Madagascar (ACUHIAM/ASUNICAM)

Pan African Nonviolence and Peacebuilders Network (PANPeN).

Please use any of the following ways most convenient to you to make your contribution. Please write TANZANIA CONFERENCE as the purpose of the donation. Thank you.

1. You can send money to PJSA (Peace & Justice Studies Association) via check or online donation, and AS LONG AS YOU NOTE THIS CONFERENCE.

Checks can be mailed to:

PJSA c/o Dr. Michael Loadenthal
University of Cincinnati
CLIFTCT 5119
2800 Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati OH 45221

Checks can be noted as ’Tanzania Conference’ in the memo line. Donations can be made online https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/donate/ and the same memo can be left in the Comment field.

2. Konto des M.W.A.N.Z.A. e.V.

Bei der Sparkasse Mainfranken:
IBAN: DE31 7905 0000 0043 0217 99
BIC: BYLADEM1SWU

C/o Michael Stolz
Unterdürrbacher Str.346
D-97080 Würzburg
0931 96481
Germany
https://mwanza.de/wp/sw/startpage-sw/

3. Account Name: ACUHIAM SAUT

Bank Name: CRDB Bank

Branch: SAUT

Account Number: 015C442731300

IBAN: 015C442731300

Swift Code: CORUTZTZ

C/o Dr. George Francis Mutalemwa

St. Augustine University of Tanzania

PO Box 307 Mwanza

Tanzania

https://www.fiuc.org/bdf_organisme-328_en.html

4. M-Pesa Account

+255 0756 058 511

C/o George Francis Mutalemwa

On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee, I thank you in advance for supporting this Conference and I am looking forward to welcoming you to Tanzania.

Invitation to St. Augustine College Public Lecture

Please find attached the invitation to the lecture on “Disrupting Complacency, Disturbing the Peace”, 1 May 2024

Academic Literacy and Writing Short Course

St. Augustine College, South Africa will offer the above course from 29 May 2024. Please see flyer for more information

Feasibility Proposal for the Ministry of Peace for Colombia

You can find the proposal at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375744535_PROPOSAL_FOR_THE_FEASIBILITY_OF_THE_CREATION_OF_A_MINISTRY_OF_PEACE_IN_COLOMBIA

Global Peace Feedback

In order to improve our sessions we are happy to receive your feedback. In this case, please just send me an email or call me on WhatsApp +255 756 058 511. Thank you.

Webinar Talk Offers

If you would like to give us a talk on any of the issues related to peace and/ or sustainable development, please drop me a line and invite your colleagues to Global Peace. Thank you. A schedule of speakers is attached.

Should you wish not to participate in these transcontinental sessions, kindly let me know. We respect each one’s opinion and everyone’s dignity. Welcome to Global Peace.

MAMA WhatsApp Group

You are warmly invited to join the Africa Peace and Development Network (MAMA) WhatsApp Group. Please text me via +255 756 058 511 to join MAMA or click here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BBkeESocCNw6xHfvlaRznv

The webinar link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84157580433?pwd=Ny9kRGR1TjBtaHNiTGlFaWU4UW5Mdz09

Yours sincerely,

George Mutalemwa

Moderator: Global Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa

Dr. George Mutalemwa
Global Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa
Africa Peace and Development Network/ Mtandao wa Amani na Maendeleo Afrika (MAMA)
Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of Africa and Madagascar (ACUHIAM/ASUNICAM)
St. Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT)
PO Box 307 Mwanza, Tanzania
Email: george.mutalemwa@saut.ac.tz
Phone (WhatsApp): +255 756 058 511
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