In 2014, the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies (IACFS) inaugurated the Young Scholar Award, an annual award for the best unpublished article or paper on an aspect of federalism. In 2015, this award was renamed in honour of Ronald L. Watts.
The ICDHRG 2017: 19th International Conference on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Democracy, Human Rights and Governance.
The ICAGGHR 2017: 19th International Conference on Anti-Corruption, Good Governance and Human Rights aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Anti-Corruption, Good Governance and Human Rights.
Call for papers: Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa
At the recent Annual Directors’ Meeting of IACFS in October 2015, the Centre for Federal Studies, at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was admitted as a member of the IACFS.
The IACFS Young Researcher Award for 2015 was award to Dr Marc Sanjaume (Ph D Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Catalonia), a post doc student at CREQC, University of Quebec at Montreal, for the paper “Reconciling liberal democracy, nationalism and political divorce in federalizing contexts”.