The Amilcar Cabral Institute for Economic and Political Research

Dear Members
A good resource if you are conducting research in Guinea-Bissau - see below
Best wishes
Inês
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Dr. Maria Inês Varela-Silva, BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA
Lecturer in Human Biology and Chair of The Biosocial Society
Loughborough University (SSEHS)
Centre for Global Health and Human Development
Brockington Extension, 2nd floor, Loughborough, LE11 3TU - UK
email: M.I.O.Varela-Silva@lboro.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1509 228164
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Date: 27 June 2011


THE AMILCAR CABRAL INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL RESEARCH
Readers of this list may be interested to hear of a new think-tank, the Amilcar Cabral Institute for Economic and Political Research, which is an independent think tank that aims to promote academic research and influence public policy on Guinea-Bissau, for the equitable development of Guinea-Bissau's economy and society.

The Institute was established a year ago and it is affiliated to the Centre of West African Studies at Birmingham University. It has recently entered into partnership with the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa (INEP), the major research body in Guinea-Bissau. Both bodies hope to work together to promote greater international research and engagement with the country. The Institute also runs the Secretariat for the newly established All-Party Parliamentary Group of the United Kingdom on Guinea-Bissau, which will see an exchange of parliamentarians between the two countries this coming autumn.


The Institute's Board of Advisors, derived primarily from an academic background, is a distinguished group of people with a shared commitment to the future prosperity of Guinea-Bissau and the research capacity of the Institute.

The Institute's Board of Advisors comprises:



José Lingna Nafafe - University of Birmingham (Chair)

Patrick Chabal - King's College, London

Reginald Cline-Cole - University of Birmingham

Toby Green - King's College, London

Walter Hawthorne - Michigan State University

José da Silva Horta - University of Lisbon

Mamadú Jao - Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa (INEP), Bissau

Peter Mendy - Rhode Island College
Carmen Neto - Guinea-Bissau British Trust, former Guinea-Bissau Ambassador to China

David Stephen - Former UN Representative to Guinea-Bissau, former Head of United Nations Peace-Building Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS)



The Amilcar Cabral Institute is interested to hear from all researchers with an interest in pursuing research related to any aspect of Bissau-Guinean society, and is keen to help develop meaningful research projects in partnership with them. Some funding may be available. For more information, please see the Institute's website, www.cabralinstitute.org<http://www.cabralinstitute.org/>.



Toby Green
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Departments of History and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
S3.08
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS