Masterclass
Pan-Africanism: from social mobilization to political advocacy
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Bony Ibhawoh
Professor and Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights at McMaster University, Canada; Founding Director of the McMaster Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice; Independent Expert of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva; Ex-Board Chair of Empowerment Squared. Human Rights educator and policymaker. Teaches international human rights in the Department of History, the Centre for Peace Studies and the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Director of Participedia.
Pan-Africanism: from social mobilization to political advocacy
To understand the relationship between social mobilization, collective identity, and political advocacy in Africa.
Pan-Africanism, social movements, and the connection between deliberation, mobilization, and political transformation.
- 05:09 - Introducción
- 07:30 - When and why Panafricanism was born?
- 12:00 Where you think Panafricanism. and other social movements, its leading to? What 's the future?
- 16:30 - How deliberative democracy can bring people together in Africa?
- 22:45 - What experiences have existed in African countries on citizen assemblies or bottom-up citizen process on deliberative democracy?
- 31:00 - How can we ensure that all this engagement on deliberative processes will be actual change?
- 37:27 - How can deliberative democracy support political and human rights to reduce the asymmetry between citizens and governments?
- 45: 14 - Conclusion