PUG Insights Newsletter | Issue 3
š The Final Edition of Our Newsletter is Out! PUG Research will be closed for the holidays from the 23rd December 2024 to 6 January 2025. As we wrap up the year, donāt miss the last issue of our newsletter filled with insights, reflections, and updates from 2024. š Enjoy the holidays and we can’t […]
Reaching Human Rights Defenders In The Margins May Be Challenging, But Itās Worthwhile
Author: Dr. Mmeli Dube, PUG Researcher, Democracy and Human Rights Programmes Lead The African Universities Hub for Human Rights (Africa Hub), held its first Summer School for defenders of democracy and human rights in Africa from October 7 to 10, 2024 at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in Cape Town. Participants included activists […]
Governing the Just Urban Transition: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Call
This is a call for recent doctoral graduates to apply for one Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the NRF-funded Governing the Just Urban Transition project at the Politics and Urban Governance Research Group, UWC. The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship is for two-years starting in 2025 (R300 000 annual funding).. Requirements: How to apply: To apply for the […]
PUG Insights Newsletter | Issue 2
Welcome to our latest newsletter! Discover key updates on events, launch of the African Universities Hub for Human Rights (AUH), new projects, and team profiles. Stay informed on recent events and upcoming events!
Reflections on the 2024 Participedia Partner’s Conference and Summer School
Nnamdi Nnake Reflecting on 2024 Participedia Partners Conference and School: The Partnerās Conference held from June 6-7, and commenced with an experiential exercise on deep democracy, which gave all participants the opportunity to air their views on a variety of sociopolitical issues through multidimensional mapping.
Reflection on the āTransnational Democratic Innovationsā Participedia School
Carolina Earle Reflecting on the 2024 Participedia School: And yet, in the face of this slowness and apathy, there exists ā as there have always been ā poignant, powerful, pulsing and world-changing spaces where āthe conversationā is already rooted in tomorrow's imaginaries which feel graspable, real, and so very close. As a result of more and less (in)visible labour(s), the co-hosted and co-created 2024 Participedia School on Transnational Democratic Innovations became such a space.