ABORNE 2020: African Borderlands Research Network Annual Meeting

Country: France

City: Paris

Abstr. due: 01.08.2020

Dates: 17.12.20 — 18.12.20

Area Of Sciences: Geography; Political science; Cultural science;

Organizing comittee e-mail: aborne2020@africa.ufl.edu

Organizers: OECD Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC/OECD) and the University of Florida Sahel Research Group (SRG)

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

Historical and spatial changes in cross-border trade networks
Regional trade facilitation initiatives
Transport corridors, infrastructure and mobility in border regions
Food systems transformations and the expansion of food value chains across borders
Impact of political insecurity on border cities and markets
Borders, safe havens and violent extremist groups
Transnational political violence and Jihadism
Military strategies to control transnational flows
Technologies to securitise borders
Migration policies and border regions
Trafficking and borders