Discover African Studies at Georgetown: Focus on Conflict Management & Resolution
The continent’s strategic importance grows in the minds of policymakers and business leaders both in the U.S and abroad due to such factors as international and regional security threats, energy security, increased private investment, global commodity markets, the rise of China and other Asian powers in African affairs, and Africa’s health and environmental challenges.
Courses such as UN Peacekeeping in Africa and Nationalism/Ethnic Conflict: Africa consider theories of nationalism and the specific experience of nation building, and the intertwining impacts of citizenship, ethnic and rational minorities, and language rights.
Professors such as Lahra Smith take these concepts and apply them to current and historical conditions through regional and cultural case study focus.
