Dr Victoria Araj & Dr Pamela Nzabampema: Celebrating Black Peace Activism
For the inaugural lecture of our Race Matters programme, join Dr Victoria Araj & Dr Pamela Nzabampema as they discuss how Neocolonial approaches to peacebuilding – as seen most recently in the cases of Palestine, Libya and Afghanistan – have proved at best, inadequate, and at worst, harmful to people and societies in these countries and beyond
"In the first lecture of the Race Matters series, we will draw upon Lincolnshire connections to those who struggled for peace, justice and equality, such as Salim Charles Wilson, Richard Hilland W.E.B. Du Bois, and analyse their global and transhistorical impact. Then, drawing on case-studies from the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, we will discuss the historical developments of customary/traditional mechanisms of conflict management from the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial eras. We will demonstrate how, despite, the attempts of the colonial and post-colonial rulers to dismantle or reduce the powers of these mechanisms, they have remained important governing nodes, especially in rural areas, where most people continue to refer to them to resolve their disputes. We will then explain how we can learn from such decolonized approaches to move towards sustainable peace and justice within our own communities and beyond"
- Date: 27 October 2021
- Time: 18:00–19:30
- Venue: Jackson Lecture Theatre, University of Lincoln, Minerva Building
- Register here
Dr Victoria Araj
Post-doctoral Researcher
Dr. Victoria Araj is a Post-doctoral Researcher with the Reimagining Lincolnshire project at the University of Lincoln. This public history project was initiated at the University of Lincoln in late 2020 and seeks to uncover hidden and neglected stories from Lincolnshire. The project addresses the complexities of both empire and slavery but is also about uncovering additional layers of marginalised stories relating to race, class, gender, sexuality and ableism, thus revealing the past in a more inclusive and thought-provoking light.
Victoria holds a PhD in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, UK and a Masters and BA in International Development: Poverty, Conflict, and Reconstruction from the University of Manchester. Previously, she was a visiting Fellow in Sustainable Peacebuilding at Sabanci University in Istanbul and with the European Commission. She is currently a mentor with the Women in International Affairs Network.
Outside academia Victoria has worked with Carnegie Middle East Center, Cambridge Centre for Palestine Studies and also with UK and Turkey-based refugee and peace-education charities.
Dr Pamela Nzabampema
Dr Pamela Nzabampema works at the Quaker Council for European Affairs, based in Brussels. Prior to joining QCEA, Pamela completed a doctoral degree in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. Her PhD examined the historical and contemporary developments of policing pluralism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In this research, Pamela took a historicised and a nodal governance approach to examine the developments of a number of policing providers beyond the state in the DRC. Pamela has also carried out research on the impact of amnesties on the reconciliation process in post-conflict Burundi. She previously worked as a General Teaching Assistant at the University of Bradford and as a Research Associate for the John and Eleanora Ferguson Centre for African Studies (JEFCAS).
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