---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rift Valley Institute <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 06:54:33 +0000 Subject: RVI April 2014 Update To: elisabeth <[email protected]>
Rift Valley Institute Update April 2014 http://riftvalley.net/news/field-course-season-eastern-and-central-africa COURSES & CONFERENCES | ALL REGIONS The field course season in Eastern and Central Africa (http://riftvalley.net/news/field-course-season-eastern-and-central-africa) MONDAY, 31 MARCH 2014 | FIELD COURSES 2014 PROSPECTUS (http://riftvalley.net/download/file/fid/3194) | TESTIMONIALS (http://riftvalley.net/download/file/fid/3205) | ONLINE APPLICATION FORM/S'INSCIRE ENLIGNE (http://riftvalley.net/page/rift-valley-institute-field-courses-2014) | MORE INFORMATION (http://riftvalley.net/course/rvi-field-courses) | INFORMATION EN FRANÇAIS (http://riftvalley.net/page/stages-d%C3%A9tudes-du-rvi#.UpceTWRdV8w) More than forty outstanding specialists on Eastern and Central African history, politics, economics and culture will be teaching on RVI field courses this year. Journalists and activists join academics and policy-makers for intensive courses covering the Sudans, the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes... MORE > (http://riftvalley.net/news/field-course-season-eastern-and-central-africa) ------------------------------------------------------------ http://riftvalley.net/publication/challenges-somali-money-transfer-sector NAIROBI FORUM | HORN OF AFRICA | POLICY AND PRACTICE | BRIEFINGS Challenges for the Somali money transfer sector (http://riftvalley.net/publication/challenges-somali-money-transfer-sector) BY ANNA LINDLEY (http://riftvalley.net/authors/anna-lindley) , JASON MOSLEY (http://riftvalley.net/authors/jason-mosley) | 2014 | DOWNLOAD PDF (http://riftvalley.net/download/file/fid/3276) | READ FULL BRIEFING (http://riftvalley.net/publication/challenges-somali-money-transfer-sector#full) Remittances to Somalia are at risk of being caught in the backwash of a global tendency towards tighter regulation of financial flows. This new tightening aims to prevent money laundering and to block flows to groups involved in terrorist activities. One recent consequence... MORE > (http://riftvalley.net/publication/challenges-somali-money-transfer-sector) ------------------------------------------------------------ http://riftvalley.net/event/training-course-somaliland-fieldwork-methodology NAIROBI FORUM | HORN OF AFRICA Training course in Somaliland on fieldwork methodology (http://riftvalley.net/event/training-course-somaliland-fieldwork-methodology) SATURDAY, 18 JANUARY TO WEDNESDAY, 22 JANUARY 2014 (http://riftvalley.net/calendar) | HARGEYSA In January, RVI organised a five-day training course in the University of Hargeysa in Somaliland, for Somali researchers, on social science research methodologies. The course brought together researchers from Hargeysa, Burco, Borama, Garowe and Mogadishu involved in RVI research projects in Somaliland, Puntland... MORE > (http://riftvalley.net/event/training-course-somaliland-fieldwork-methodology) ------------------------------------------------------------ http://riftvalley.net/news/reflections-life-research-horn-africa COURSES & CONFERENCES | ALL REGIONS | INTERVIEWS Reflections on a life of research in the Horn of Africa (http://riftvalley.net/news/reflections-life-research-horn-africa) FRIDAY, 14 JUNE 2013 | JINJA | UGANDA Berouk Mesfin, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), interviews Christopher Clapham, Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge, and Lee Cassanelli, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, on the topic of a life of research in the Horn of Africa... MORE > (http://riftvalley.net/news/reflections-life-research-horn-africa) ------------------------------------------------------------ http://riftvalley.net/news/colonial-remembering-injured-bodies-and-current-humanitarianism-drc USALAMA | GREAT LAKES Colonial Remembering, Injured Bodies, and Current Humanitarianism in the DRC (http://riftvalley.net/news/colonial-remembering-injured-bodies-and-current-humanitarianism-drc) THURSDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2013 | BY CHARLOTTE MERTENS Congolese colonial subjects have vivid memories of the grotesque and spectacular violence inflicted upon them by Europeans during Leopold's reign of the Congo Free State: 'Soldiers made young men kill or rape their own mother and sisters.' Witnesses of events in 1953 mention sentries 'amusing themselves while pounding the insides of women's vaginas... 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