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O Centro de Estudos Africanos do ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, na continuação do 1º colóquio NRedes e em colaboração com a ESECS do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, realizou nos dias 29 e 30 de Março de 2010 no ISCTE o primeiro Congresso Internacional sobre a Cooperação no âmbito da Educação entre Portugal, os PALOP e Timor Leste. Na Comissão Organizadora deste Congresso participaram, para além das organizadoras deste livro, o Engenheiro José Manuel Prostes da Fonseca a quem, pelo empenho e dedicação, se presta aqui um homenagem especial, a Doutora Margarida Lima de Faria, o Professor António Fazendeiro e o Professor Filipe Santos. A organização deste evento também não teria sido possível sem a colaboração do Gabinete Multimédia da ESECS de Leiria e o apoio do Instituto Português de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento (IPAD) e da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, entre outros. Este Congresso reuniu cerca de 150 participantes de sete países que durante os dois dias do Congresso debateram questões relacionadas com a temática em foco.
A New Era?
Timor-Leste has made impressive progress since its historic achievement of independence in 2002. From the instability that blighted its early years, the fledgling democratic country has achieved strong economic growth and a gradual reinstatement of essential social services. A decade on in 2012, Presidential and Parliamentary elections produced smooth political transitions and the extended UN peacekeeping presence in the country came to an end. But significant challenges remain. This book, a product of the inaugural Timor-Leste Update held at The Australian National University in 2013 to mark the end of Timor-Leste’s first decade as a new nation, brings together a vibrant collection of pap...
Navigating Socialist Encounters
This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories.
Rebels and Robbers
Rebels and Robbers is about the political economy of violence in post-colonial Angola. This book provides the first comprehensive attempt at analyzing how the military and non-military dynamics of more than four decades of conflict created the structural violence that stubbornly defines Angolan society even in the absence of war. The book clearly demonstrates that the end of the civil war has not ushered in positive peace. The focus on structural violence enables the author to explore the continuities since colonial times, especially in the ways race, class, ethnicity, and power have been used by governing elites as mechanisms to oppress the powerless. Thus, although corruption as structural...
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing. Providing both methodological reflections and practical examples, they compare informal settlements, unauthorised occupation of flats, illegal housing construction and political squatting in different regions of the world. Subjects covered include squatter settlements in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, squatting activism in Brazil and Spain, right-wing squatting in Germany, planning laws and informality across countries in the Global North, and squatting in post-Second World War UK and Australia.
Chronic Rhinosinusitis
This issue will focus on treatments for Chronic Rhinosinusitis. Dr. Wyste Fokkens guest edits topics such as: "Inflammatory mechanisms in chronic rhinosinusitis with or without nasal polyposis," "European versus Asian Chronic rhinosinusitis. What did it teach us and what do we want to know," "Epithelium, cilia and mucus, their importance in chronic rhinosinusitis Noam Cohen Noam," "Aspirin intolerance: does desensitization alter the course of the disease," "Anti-inflammatory effects of macrolides: applications in CRS," and more!
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