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CIC-NCB Ottawa: A Partnership for Shared Prosperity and Security: The Canada Africa Strategy

June 10, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

CIC National Capital Branch’s Africa Study Group (ASG) presents…

A PARTNERSHIP FOR SHARED PROSPERITY AND SECURITY: THE CANADA AFRICA STRATEGY

June 10, 2025, 1:00 to 3:00 PM EST

In-person location: Carleton University, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), Richcraft Hall 5320D,  1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6

 

REGISTRATION

This is a hybrid event, and it is open to everyone! To register for in-person attendance, do so through Eventbrite (click here). To register for virtual attendance, register through Zoom (click here).

 

EVENT DESCRIPTION

On March 26th 2025, Canada launched its first global Africa Strategy aiming “…to strengthen its economic and national security, including through diversifying its investments, improving supply chain resiliency, enhancing peace, security and human rights and contributing to efforts that maintain transport routes for critical goods, while promoting local benefits in Africa. This new foreign policy represents a strengthening of Canada’s engagement with Africa, toward greater economic cooperation, strengthened peace and security partnerships, enhanced engagement of African diaspora communities in Canada, and international assistance that supports economic development and youth employment”.

In this context, Canada will work with African partners across 5 strategic areas, that are aligned with the African Union’s “Agenda 2063” and informed by numerous consultations with African, Canadian, and international stakeholders:

1. Strengthening our diplomatic engagement and people-to-people ties

2. Enhancing economic cooperation

3. Reducing poverty, supporting economic development, empowering youth, assisting in humanitarian crises and climate adaptation

4. Bolstering partnerships for peace, security and human rights

5. Advancing shared priorities through increased engagement on the global stage.

In this hybrid Webinar, informed speakers will jointly share their reflexion and perspectives on the first Canadian Africa Strategy.

 

SPEAKERS

Prof. Nadège Compaoré, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Toronto

Prof. Edward Ansah Akuffo, Associate Professor of International Relations, chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford

Dr. Marcia Burdette, Former Canadian Diplomat, Vice–Chair of the Africa Study Group, Ottawa

Prof. David Black, Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Development Studies, Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University, Halifax

Prof. Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Associate Professor of Political Science, King’s University College at The University of Western Ontario (UWO), London

Adetoun Ilumoka, Program Officer / Lead on Policy, British Columbia Council for International Cooperation, Vancouver

This event will be moderated by Dr. Cheickh Tidjane Bangoura, Former UN Diplomat, International jurist and lawyer, President of the Africa Study Group.

Details

Venue

  • Carleton University, NPSIA Boardroom, Richcraft Hall 5320 D
  • 1125 Colonel By Drive
    Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 Canada     + Google Map

Organizers

  • Canadian International Council – National Capital (Ottawa) Branch
  • CIC National Capital Branch’s Africa Study Group (ASG)