June 28, 2022 International scientific online conference "Between promise and peril: African security in the 21st century"

On June 28, 2022, the Center for Sociological and Political Science (CSPR) of the IAfr RAS, together with the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa) and the Independent University of Banja Luka (Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republika Srpska), held a tripartite international scientific conference on the topic : "BETWEEN PROMISE AND PERIL: AFRICAN SECURITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY".

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to South Africa and the Kingdom of Lesotho Ilya Igorevich Rogachev, Rector of the Independent University of Banja Luka, Professor Zoran Kalinich, Deputy Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economics, addressed the conference participants with a welcoming speech, Prof. Leonid Leonidovich Fituni, Dean of the Political Science Faculty of the Independent University of Banja Luka, Dr. Ostoja Barashin; and Director of the Institute for Scientific Research of the Independent University of Banja Luka, Dr. Dragana Popovich.

The conference was attended by researchers from the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the University of the Free State, the Independent University of Banja Luka, the Center for Security Studies (Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina/Republika Srpska) and Stellenbosch University (Stellenbosch, South Africa).

The conference heard and discussed 17 scientific reports on topical security issues in Africa. In total, more than 110 people took part in the conference.

The conference was the second event under the Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation signed in 2020 between the African Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the University of the Free State and the first event under the Cooperation Agreement signed in 2022 between the African Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Independent University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republic of Serbia.



Conference program
Abstracts and biographies of the conference participants