Training Program “Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Stabilization – Best Practices in Building Resilience and Countering Disinformation”

published on 2025-10-28by cestaf Commentaires fermés

UBB involved in organizing a seminar on countering disinformation and post-conflict reconstruction in Ethiopia

The Center for African Studies (CESTAF) of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (UBB) supported the organization of the training program “Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Stabilization – Best Practices in Building Resilience and Countering Disinformation,” implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Romanian Agency for International Development (RoAid), held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) between October 20–24, 2025.

For the sixth consecutive edition, the director of UBB’s Center for African Studies (CESTAF), Professor Sergiu Mișcoiu, serves as the scientific director of this international training course, conducted in French and English. Through the program, 25 high-ranking officials, government representatives, and civil society actors from Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, the Central African Republic, Mauritania, Senegal, Tanzania, South Africa, and Romania benefit from the contribution and expertise of eight Romanian and Ethiopian trainers.

As part of the course, the CESTAF director, together with representatives from Addis Ababa University, led a working session of the Africa–Europe Cluster of Excellence dedicated to “Sustainable Water and Land Resource Management for Human Well-Being.” The Cluster is part of a broader international initiative through which the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities—of which UBB is a member—aim to make substantial efforts to support Africa’s scientific development and to promote the continent’s equitable involvement in global sustainable development initiatives.

Book Launch: Afrotopia and Africa’s Future – A discussion with the members of the Centre for African Studies

Invited by the East Stratcom Task Force of the European Commission, Prof. Sergiu Mișcoiu conducted a study about the way numerous young Africans, disillusioned by socio-economic struggles, are drawn to alternative narratives making them receptive to Kremlin’s anti-Western propaganda. The main conclusions of the study are here (EN):
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/the-wind-is-blowing-towards-the-east-the-vulnerability-of-young-africans-to-anti-western-propaganda/

Invité par le Groupe de Travail East Stratcom de la Commission européenne, Sergiu Mișcoiu a mené une étude sur les nombreux jeunes Africains, qui, désillusionnés par les difficultés socio-économiques, se laissent attirer par des récits alternatifs et deviennent réceptifs à la propagande anti-occidentale du Kremlin. Les principales conclusions de l’étude sont ici (FR):
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/fr/le-vent-souffle-vers-lest-la-vulnerabilite-des-jeunes-africains-face-a-la-propagande-anti-occidentale/

Prof. Sergiu Mișcoiu, directorul Centrului de Studii Africane al UBB, a analizat pentru « Europa Liberă » dinamica războiului civil din Sudan, implicarea statelor și facțiunilor regionale și a marilor puteri în prelungirea și agravarea ostilităților, agravarea crizei umanitare, precum și precaritatea oricăror armistiții, în condițiile în care nu va avea loc o dizolvare a Forțelor de Sprijin Rapid în armata regulată sudaneză.
https://romania.europalibera.org/a/sudan-conflict-armat-interese-geopolitice-criza-umanitara/32398814.html

ACTIVITÉ

Le colloque international Les systèmes politiques africains et le défi de la mondialisation, organisé par le Centre d’Etudes Africaines et la Faculté d’Études Européennes de l’Université Babeș-Bolyai, en partenariat avec l’Université de Bucarest (FSPUB) et l’Université de l’Ouest de Timișoara (Centre Ubuntu), s’est déroulé les 5 et 6 novembre 2020 avec plus de 60 participants de 15 pays. De nombreux débats passionnés notamment sur les cas du Mali, de la Guinée et de la Côte d’Ivoire. Deux publications – l’une en français, l’autre en anglais – reprendront les actes de ce colloque en 2021.

Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Stabilisation

The Director of the Centre for African Studies (CESTAF) had the honour to be the co-director of the training course « Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Stabilisation », organized by the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE), the Romanian Aid Agency (RoAid) and the African Union (UA). An enriching experience with experts and practitioners from Africa and the European Union.

Babes-Bolyai University, a member of the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, contributed to the elaboration of the
‘Concept Note on the development of research and education in Africa‘ [PDF], together with the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA)

A la demande de l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie – Bureau Europe Centrale et Orientale, le Professeur Sergiu Mișcoiu a donné le cours « Etat de droit et droits de l’homme. Perspectives francophones », avec une mini-étude de cas sur le dernier coup d’Etat au Mali (août 2020). [LIEN DU COURS]

Prof. univ. dr. Sergiu Mișcoiu, directorul Centrului de Cooperari Internationale al UBB si coordonatorul Masteratului de Studii Politice Europene Comparate în limba franceză, a fost prezent în perioada 17-19 octombrie la Universitatea din Szeged unde a discutat despre Programul de Dezvoltare Africa-Europa (video)