{"id":2550,"date":"2020-02-27T10:37:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2020-02-27T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:42:13","slug":"remote-warfare-in-africa-at-the-2020-african-studies-association-uk-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2550","title":{"rendered":"Remote Warfare in Africa\u201d at the 2020 African Studies Association UK Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_672131681896690669xmsonormal\">The Oxford Research Group\u2019s Remote Warfare Programme (RWP) will be running a series of panels on <strong>\u201cRemote Warfare in Africa\u201d<\/strong> at the <strong>2020 African Studies Association UK Conference<\/strong>. This will take place at the University of Cardiff\u2019s Cathays campus from the 8<sup>th<\/sup>-10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0September 2020. The aim of this workstream will be to bring together experts of remote warfare, security force assistance, and security force reform, as well as country-specific and regional experts to examine the challenges of contemporary conflict in Africa.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_672131681896690669xmsonormal\">We invite you to submit an abstract of no more than 500 words, by the 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0March, if you are interested in presenting on one of these panels.\u00a0You can find more information about the conference and the call for abstracts<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk\/news\/call-for-papers-african-studies-association-of-the-uk-remote-warfare-in-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk\/news\/call-for-papers-african-studies-association-of-the-uk-remote-warfare-in-africa&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1582885704817000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEYpAcQ19e33qYi3UUfXm-WGbx5YQ\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_672131681896690669xxmsonormal\">We will be arranging 4 panel discussions with 5 speakers each. Unfortunately we cannot cover accommodation or travel costs for this event. If you have any questions, please email <strong><a href=\"mailto:megan@oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">megan@oxfordresearchgroup.org.<wbr \/>uk<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford Research Group\u2019s Remote Warfare Programme (RWP) will be running a series of panels on \u201cRemote Warfare in Africa\u201d at the 2020 African Studies Association UK Conference. This will take place at the University of Cardiff\u2019s Cathays campus from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2550\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfps-events","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}