Seminar on Africa and the World: Lessons from the NATO Intervention in Libya

Details of the event:
Date      : 27 August 2013
Time      : 09H30 for 10H00 – 13H00
Venue   :Burgers Park Hotel, Pretoria

While the world’s attention is focused on Egypt conflict, the aftermath of the 2011 NATO failed intervention on Libya continues to impact negatively on the lives of millions of Libyans. The Libyan society is now destabilised with more than 1700 militias ravaging the community.

At the same time, the deepening social and economic meltdown within Western Europe has exposed the fragility of the accumulation base of the European economies. The competition within Europe has now been exacerbated by the diminution of the importance of Western Europe in bodies such as the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations.

On the other side, the Global African Family has gained renewed confidence from the resistance and opposition in Africa and there is now a clear determination from many sections of Africa that there must be more unification in order to ensure that Africans will be able to manage the global capitalist crisis so that the NATO intervention in Libya does not have the same repercussions for Europe as the Italian Invasion of Abyssinia in 1935.

To discuss these and other issues, the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA) will host an international peace and justice scholar, Professor Horace Campbell, in a seminar on Africa and the World: Lessons from the NATO Intervention in Libya.

Prof. Campbell is aProfessor in both the Department of African-American Studies and Department of Political Science, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, USA.
His presentation will be based on his new book, NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya, published by AISA.

Other guests include the former Public Works minister and current Project Consultant at the Archie Mafeje Research Institute (AMRI), Ms Thoko Didiza as well as Dr Siphamandla Zondi, Director at the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD).

 

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