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Vision
The institute aims to become a dynamic pan-African research institute and a repository of knowledge on Africa’s social formations – past, present and future – with the aim of influencing progressive social transformation in Africa.
Mission
To become an African knowledge production think-tank that, thorough ongoing research in areas of social change, will contribute towards Africa’s renewal agenda and global peace.
To contribute towards Africa’s renewal and global reform through alternative knowledge, dynamic academic and policy conversations and cutting-edge publications, as a sought-after repository of information on African societal transformation and community engagement.
Purpose
The main purpose of the Archie Mafeje Research Institute is to enhance endogenous and pan-African research for application in resolving Africa’s social challenges.
Objectives
The institute aims to:
Given the Pan-African outlook of AMRI, its research will primarily entail
The broad thematic areas that constitute the institute’s intellectual agenda include:
AMRI intends to publish the following:
Governance
The institute is governed by a non-executive board of directors, comprising a representative of the Vice-Chancellor of Unisa, accomplished scholars and policy practitioners. Their primary task is to provide strategic guidance and oversight of the work of the institute, including overseeing the work of the director and formulating policy and regulations that govern the operations of the institute. This board also provides the link between the institute and the university’s governance structures. The board meets once every quarter and the final board meeting of the year also considers its composition. Ultimately, the institute resides within Unisa’s College of Graduate Studies.
Funding/Sponsorship
Although the institute was established through seed funding from Unisa, it supplements this core funding through external grants and contracts. It also accepts applications for corporate membership from universities, companies and NGOs that value a partnership with the institute.
A Scientific Committee comprising renowned African academics and policy practitioners guides the institute’s intellectual agenda, including the design of long-range and short-term research plans, strategic dialogues, publications and community engagement. It provides an intellectual platform for AMRI to brainstorm social research issues of relevance to the continent and to support the incubation of strategic research ideas of AMRI. The board appoints members of the Scientific Committee, and the chair of the Scientific Committee reports to the board. The Scientific Committee isthus a subcommittee of the board.
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