Mobilization

Young Africans could disrupt authoritarian states but they don't – here's why

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Sunday, January 7, 2024
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The number of young Africans aged 15-24 is projected to reach 500 million in 2080.

Key Points: 
  • The number of young Africans aged 15-24 is projected to reach 500 million in 2080.
  • While population dynamics vary across the continent, most sub-Saharan countries have a median age below 19.
  • Niger is the youngest country in the world with a median age of 14.5, while South Africa, Seychelles, Tunisia and Algeria have median ages above 27.
  • We found that youth-targeted strategies – largely aimed at promoting employment and political participation – are part of the authoritarian rule book in all four countries we studied.
  • Employment and entrepreneurship schemes were open to abuse through ruling party patronage networks and channelled to regime supporters.

Not saving democracy

  • Our research found that young people in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe felt aggrieved about these opportunities being channelled to regime supporters.
  • But overall, Africa’s youth are not saving democracy.

Country case studies

  • Zanu-PF targets young people among its wider repertoire of strategies to maintain power.
  • This, in addition to other conflict dynamics, contributed to an insurgency in the northern region of Cabo Delgado from 2017.
  • Youth-dominated protests in Ethiopia contributed to the 2018 fall of the ruling party that had been in power since 1991.
  • Young candidates running for one of the youth quota seats in parliament, for instance, can’t easily evade ruling party patronage.

Way forward

  • However, they have often been characterised as either violent or as changemakers and peace activists.
  • Our research project engaged a diversity of young people positioned and constantly moving across different parts of the spectrum.


Lovise Aalen receives funding from the Research Council of Norway's Norglobal programme (grant # 288489). Marjoke Oosterom received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Ukraine war: Putin avoids further mobilisation while Kyiv suffers manpower shortage

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Thursday, September 28, 2023
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In response to Ukraine’s successful counteroffensive which recaptured swaths of territory from Russia, Putin called up around 300,000 men – around 1% of the eligible pool of reservists.

Key Points: 
  • In response to Ukraine’s successful counteroffensive which recaptured swaths of territory from Russia, Putin called up around 300,000 men – around 1% of the eligible pool of reservists.
  • This is partly a misinformation campaign launched by Kyiv to sow dissent in Russia.
  • Again in September 2023, Ukrainian sources claimed a new mobilisation was planned for the day after the Russian regional elections on September 10.
  • And, in fact, it’s Ukraine that is under pressure to conscript enough troops as its counteroffensive struggles for momentum.

Changing moods

    • In fact, the opposite is true and realists are now talking down the prospect of a Ukrainian breakthrough any time soon.
    • But this gloomy mood quickly dissipated when footage of burning Ukrainian Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles appeared in early June.

It’s a long war

    • While some may be those who’ve already signed up, more are joining – as confirmed by Ukrainian intelligence.
    • But if it’s a long war of attrition, as seems likely, maintaining normality is actually a strength.
    • Russia is ramping up its war production and its army is also gaining the practical experience of war that it clearly lacked in the early stages.

Strain on Ukraine

    • This summer arguably saw a strategic defeat for Ukraine and Nato in their attempt to end the war by military means.
    • Nato countries supplied and trained Ukraine as best they could.
    • To get another chance, Ukraine will have to mobilise even more troops and get more advanced weapons in greater quantities than ever before.
    • Yet, for all the talk of Russia’s mobilisation, it is Ukraine that seems to be suffering from manpower shortages.

Russia’s appeal to 'warrior masculinity' is unlikely to encourage men to enlist in the army

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023
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In April he passed new legislation introducing electronic military draft papers, which will make it much harder to avoid conscription.

Key Points: 
  • In April he passed new legislation introducing electronic military draft papers, which will make it much harder to avoid conscription.
  • The last wave of conscription in September 2022 prompted an exodus of hundreds of thousands of young men to neighbouring countries.
  • So to encourage men to enlist, the Kremlin has launched a massive media campaign appealing to the notion of “warrior masculinity”.
  • Two paradoxes, which are legacies of the fall of the Soviet Union, can help explain the lukewarm response to the call to arms.

Unwilling to serve

    • I conducted these interviews in 2012-2014 and found the majority of men I spoke with expressed personal unwillingness to serve in the Russian army and were strictly against their own sons serving.
    • Conversations about the military were one of the main grounds where Russian men negotiated and established their masculinity, as well as that of other men.
    • Despite Putin’s military reforms, my interviewees regarded Soviet and post-Soviet Russian armies as two completely different social institutions.
    • The former was seen as a social lift, a place where masculinity is forged and where ordinary men become heroes.

Demilitarising masculinities

    • The Russian army in Ukraine is overwhelmingly made up of soldiers from the poorest regions of the country.
    • I found this in my research, where it became clear that the Soviet-era citizen-soldier has turned into a citizen-spectator.
    • Individuals may vocally support militarism while refusing to personally engage in any military practices.

N. Joyce Payne Center for Social Justice Promoting Civic Engagement & Voter Registration at Historically Black Colleges & Universities

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Saturday, March 11, 2023
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Washington, March 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The N. Joyce Payne Center for Social Justice (PCSJ) and the National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Alumni Associations Foundation (NHBCUAAF) continue their partnership to promote civic engagement and voter registration at the nation’s HBCUs.

Key Points: 
  • Washington, March 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The N. Joyce Payne Center for Social Justice (PCSJ) and the National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Alumni Associations Foundation (NHBCUAAF) continue their partnership to promote civic engagement and voter registration at the nation’s HBCUs.
  • In 2020, the American Association of Colleges & Universities reported that young adults had been the least engaged members of the US electorate for more than four decades.
  • Tufts University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement report found that the American electorate is growing younger and more diverse.
  • “We are extremely excited to continue working with the NHBCUAAF in bringing progressive voices together to promote and affirm the power of civic engagement,” said Dr. Christopher C. Brown, II, Executive Director, Payne Center for Social Justice.

Pebble Names Operations Expert Ben Matheny as Chief Service and Mobilization Officer

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Thursday, November 17, 2022
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Rockville, MD, Nov. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTC Pink: XDSL) (mPhase or the Company) currently rebranding as Pebble, a leading climate technology company with services that transform how both merchants and consumers profit from sustainability-oriented commerce and lifestyle choices, announced today the addition of operations expert Ben Matheny as Chief Service and Mobilization Officer (CSMO).

Key Points: 
  • Rockville, MD, Nov. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTC Pink: XDSL) (mPhase or the Company) currently rebranding as Pebble, a leading climate technology company with services that transform how both merchants and consumers profit from sustainability-oriented commerce and lifestyle choices, announced today the addition of operations expert Ben Matheny as Chief Service and Mobilization Officer (CSMO).
  • A Silicon Valley native with deep ties in the U.S. technology community, Ben transformed his early interest in entrepreneurship into two-decades of specialization in unicorn-destined startups.
  • We are really excited to have Ben onboard at this transformative time in our early launch, said Pebble CEO Richard Thorpe.
  • My reasons for joining Pebble were only partially rooted in my affinity for scalable tech startups, explained incoming CSMO Ben Matheny.

Global Leukapheresis Market Report 2022: Gaps in Current Leukapheresis Technologies Present Opportunities for Innovation - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Monday, October 31, 2022
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The global leukapheresis market is projected to reach USD 98 Million by 2027 from USD 65 Million in 2022, at a CAGR of 8.5%.

Key Points: 
  • The global leukapheresis market is projected to reach USD 98 Million by 2027 from USD 65 Million in 2022, at a CAGR of 8.5%.
  • The global leukopaks market is projected to reach USD 784 Million by 2027 from USD 146 Million in 2022, at a CAGR of 39.8%.
  • By application, research applications was the larger segment in the leukapheresis products market in 2021.
  • In 2021, the academic & research institutes segment accounted for the largest share of the leukapheresis products market.

Lubrizol and Park Place Technologies Partner to Expand Collaboration With Intel® by Providing World-class Service, Maintenance and Monitoring for State-of-the-art Immersion Cooling Systems in Data Centers

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
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Now, The Lubrizol Corporation and Park Place Technologies have announced that Park Place will become a certified partner of this ecosystem solution, leveraging its market-leading capabilities to provide on-demand service, maintenance and real-time monitoring capabilities to customers utilizing immersion-cooled solutions from Lubrizol.

Key Points: 
  • Now, The Lubrizol Corporation and Park Place Technologies have announced that Park Place will become a certified partner of this ecosystem solution, leveraging its market-leading capabilities to provide on-demand service, maintenance and real-time monitoring capabilities to customers utilizing immersion-cooled solutions from Lubrizol.
  • Park Place is an Intel Data Center Solutions Premium Support Partner that brings global reach and scale together with Intel certified testing and validation capabilities.
  • Our partnership with Park Place Technologies adds a world-class service, maintenance and monitoring capability to our sustainable offering."
  • Were thrilled to see the partnership of Lubrizol and Park Place Technologies to scale the commercial deployment of CompuZol based liquid immersion cooling solutions.

Thurgood Marshall College Fund Partners with National HBCUs Alumni Associations Foundation to Promote Minority Voter Engagement

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Friday, August 6, 2021
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WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and the National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Alumni Associations Foundation (NHBCUAAF) have announced a new civic engagement initiative among the nations Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to increase voter engagement among underrepresented groups.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and the National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Alumni Associations Foundation (NHBCUAAF) have announced a new civic engagement initiative among the nations Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to increase voter engagement among underrepresented groups.
  • Consequently, between 2016 and 2020, young men and women increased their participation in the presidential elections by 5-10%.
  • We are extremely excited to join NHBCUAAF in bringing progressive voices together to promote and affirm the power of civic engagement, said Dr. Harry L. Williams, President & CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
  • Established in 1987, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) is the nations largest organization exclusively representing the Black College Community.

Modular Mobilization Coalition for the COVID-19 Crisis Response

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Saturday, March 28, 2020
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The Modular Mobilization Coalition is also partnering with Modular Building Institute (MBI), the modular industry association, to mobilize its membership of 100+ factories around the country as needed.

Key Points: 
  • The Modular Mobilization Coalition is also partnering with Modular Building Institute (MBI), the modular industry association, to mobilize its membership of 100+ factories around the country as needed.
  • "The Modular Mobilization Coalition is ready, willing and able to stand up today and support the nation's front-line workers battling this crisis," said Vaughan Buckley, President of Volumetric Building Companies.
  • The established industry of volumetric modular construction consistsof hundreds of factories nationally, with partners inthe MMC coalition growing daily.
  • The current coalition of factories spans the nation from California, Indiana, North Carolina, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania, allowing for immediate local and regional response.

Mobilize Recovery Convenes Change Makers from All 50 States to Combat the Addiction Crisis

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Monday, July 8, 2019
Software, Operating systems, Articles, Drug rehabilitation, Mental health, Psychosocial rehabilitation, Recovery approach, Facebook, Mobilization

Mobilize Recovery is one of one hundred projects worldwide selected as a part of Facebook's Community Leadership Project initiative.

Key Points: 
  • Mobilize Recovery is one of one hundred projects worldwide selected as a part of Facebook's Community Leadership Project initiative.
  • "As a mobilized, civically engaged constituency of consequence, Mobilize Recovery will turn the tide of the epidemic and create sustainable change at every level."
  • Mobilize Recovery is a project of the Facebook Community Leadership Program and The Voices Project.
  • The proposal to Facebook was to convene this training and action-oriented event to give communities the tools they need to go out and combat the addiction crisis.