Young People in International Affairs (YPIA) is an entity at the forefront of identifying and creating opportunities for international affairs students and recent graduates throughout the African continent. YPIA promotes young African leadership and cooperation based on meeting the challenges of today’s international world.

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Scott Firsing with Fiona Forde in February 2012
YPIA Executive Director None Morake with American Political Counselor Walter Pflaumer in November 2011
YPIA Staff with South African Ambassador Thomas Wheeler (ret) in early November 2011
Moeletsi Mbeki gives lecture to YPIA members in November 2011

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Recent Publications

  • Authenticity and Leadership: Reconsider the Narrative
    Authenticity and Leadership: Reconsider the Narrative

    Dané Smith, YPIA Publications Officer, discusses South Africa’s Protection of Information Act Elements affiliated with the notion of authenticity and specifically authentic leadership are incredibly ambiguous. Nevertheless, despite the ambiguities carried by authenticity, it appears to be a characteristic sought ... Read more →

  • Freedom of Speech and SCAF
    Freedom of Speech and SCAF

    Omar El-Sabh, a freelance writer, calls for a less top-down communication model between the State and its people with specific regard to Egypt A few weeks ago, Professor Timothy Garton Ash, from Oxford University, visited the American University in Cairo ... Read more →

  • Ambivalence of Nuclear Deterrence
    Ambivalence of Nuclear Deterrence

    Iyinoluwa Ologe, an active member to the World Society of Victimology, contrasts the probable and improbable influences of nuclear deterrence in his consideration of India-Pakistan nuclear relations When former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, said that a world without nuclear ... Read more →

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