8th November 2023- Sala de Reuniões 1

9h30 – Opening Session

• FLUP – Diretora da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
• Universidade de Tifariti – Jatari Andal la
• CEAUP – Maciel Santos

Panels:

Start of the 1st day of the conference

Painel 1- The Sahara at the time of African decolonization

10h00 – Part 1

• Moderador: Mourad Aty (CEAUP)

– El movimiento nacionalista saharaui desde los años sesenta. De la
Organización de Vanguardia para la Liberación del Sahara (OVLS), al
Frente Popular para la Liberación de Saguia el Hamra y rio de Oro (Frente
Polisario)

• Emboirik Ahmed Omar (Adviser – Ministery of Foreign Affairs of the SADR)

-Phosphate Mining and anti-colonialism – labour and political action at
ENMINSA (1973-74)

• Maciel Santos (CEAUP)

-The Importance of the Saharawi Diaspora and its evolution since the 1960’s

• Isabel Lourenço (CEAUP)

10h45 – Debate
11h15 – Coffee Break

11h30-Part 2

• Moderator: Maciel Santos (CEAUP)

-La visita de Naciones Unidas al Sahara Occidental en mayo de 1975.
Detonante del abandono español y de la ocupación marroquí.

• Isaías Barreñada Bajo (Centro de Procedencia: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales e Historia global)

-“We have all the legitimacy of the world”: The Frente Polisario and the
politics of legitimation in the Western Sahara conflict

• Stephan Hensell (Universität Bremen, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies)

-Rights to Self-determination as Mechanism of Decolonization: Eritrea,
Namibia and Western Sahara

• Redie Bereketeab (The Nordic Africa Institute)

12h15 – Debate
12h45 – Lunch

Painel 2-La Primera Guerra (1975-1991)

14h30-Part 1

• Moderator: Emboriki Ahmadi (Adviser – Ministery of Foreign Affairs of the SADR)

-L’intervention militaire Française dans la guerre du Sahara occidental
Opération « Lamantin »

• Didi Ahmed (Ing.Sidemhamed AHMED, Union des Ingénieurs Sahraouis)

-Why Algeria is Still Supportive of the Western Sahara Cause? A
Permanent Stance amidst a Changing World

• Mourad Aty (Guelma University – Algeria/ CEAUP)

-The question of Western Sahara in various editions of the Algerian Army
Magazine “Aljaich”(1975-1991)

• Mebarek Oulad Naimi, Abdeljalil Mellakh (University of Ghardaia, Algeria)

15h15-Debate

15h45- Part 2

• Moderator: Juan Carlos Gimeno (Autónoma de Madrid)

-The OAU/AU Position on Western Sahara: A Review of the Pan African
Organization’s Stance from Inception to Present

• Malainin Mohamed (Saharawi Embassy in Ethiopia)

-CULTURICIDIO. La destrucción del archivo y obra del erudito saharaui
Sidati Uld Salami

• Bahia MH Awah (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

16h15 – Debate
16h45 – Coffee Break

• 17h00-Part 3
• Moderator: Luz Marina Mateo (Universidad de La plata)

-Retos y desafíos de la relación bilateral México-República Árabe Saharaui
Democrática

• Mtra. Arcelia Flores Castro (Facultad de Estudios Superior, Aragón de la
  UNAM)

-Decolonization of Western Sahara: The role of Nigeria

• Joel Kemie (Universidade do Minho)

17h30-Debate

18h00-End of the 1st day of the conference

9th November 2023 – Sala de Reuniões 1

Start of the 2nd day of the conference

Panels:

Painel 3 – The years of waiting (1991-2020)

09h30-Part 1

• Moderador: Hassan O. Kaya (Universidad de KwaZulu-Natal)

– Spaces of Aid and the Communities of Solidarity: Sahrawi People on their Path to Self-Determination

• Jelena Vićentić (independent researcher, Serbia) and Omeima Abdeslam (Sahrawi Human Rights Advocate)

– The environmental impacts of plundering of the natural resources in Western Sahara

• Ghali Zber (Center for Studies and Documentation)

– Decolonization & Human Rights Violation

• Khadja Mohamed Badati (Martin-Luther-Universität)

10h15 – Debate

10h45 – Part 2

• Moderador: Bahia MH Awah (Autónoma de Madrid)

– Education in the context of oppression and exile – The case of Western Sahara

• Helena Furtado (CEAUP)

– Estrategias psicoeducativas para mejorar el bienestar psicológico de la infancia en Smara

• Maria Jose Lera Rodriguez (Universidad de Sevilla)

– Home in a Non-Place?

• Elena Wiese (Universitat Bayreuth)

11h30 – Debate
12h00 – Lunch

Painel 4 – The Second War (2020-…)

14h00 – Part 1

• Moderadora: Isabel Lourenço (CEAUP)

– War in Western Sahara: A Case Study of UN Failure

• Bouela Lehbib

– Western Sahara War Archives, between the archives and GIS: how to map a war remotely

• Jorge Teixeira (CEAUP)

– What will be, will be: Necropolitics and the (un)changing scenario in Westrn Sahara

• Rui Novais (CEFH -Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

14h45 – Debate

15h15 – Part 2

• Moderador: Jatari Andal-la (Universidad Tifariti)

– Colonialismo histórico insidioso. A propósito de la descolonización
inconclusa del Sahara Occidental.

• Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín (Departamento de Antropología Social y Pensamiento Filosófico Español, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

– Poetry and Public Diplomacy: The Case of Western Sahara

• Joana Allan (Northumbria University) e Moiti Mohammed

– Unfinished Decolonisation of People of First Nation: Ontological Security Study of Western Sahara

•  Deepak Kumar Bhaskar (Department of Political Science Nagaland Central University, India)

16h00 – Debate

16h30-Balance of the Conference. Information about publishing and future projects

• The Organizing Board

16h45 – Coffee Break

17h00 – Presentation of the book: Learning About Western Sahara As a Motswana de Cynthia Thanda (PanAfrikanist Online Publication)

17h15 – resentation of the documentary film: NO JUSTICE, JUST US de Erik Valenčič

18h15 – Closure of the Conference