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Elisabete Azevedo-Harman <EAzevedo-Harman@chathamhouse.org> Chatham House •Contemporary African politics, especially Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, S Tome & Principe and Cape Verde •Political institutions •Elections, political transitions and democratization |
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List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Luso-Africa |
Interests: | African American History / Studies Demographic History / Studies Diplomacy and International Relations Ethnic History / Studies Military History Political History / Studies |
Bio: Elisabete Azevedo-Harman is a Researcher at Chatham House (Africa Department). She is a guest Lecturer at the Catholic University of Mozambique and was an assistant professor and the deputy director of the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) at the Catholic University of Portugal where she was responsible for coordinating the cooperation with the University of Mozambique (UCM). Her research interests include democratisation and political transitions, contemporary African politics and political institutions, mainly parliaments. Her doctoral dissertation on parliaments and citizens in Africa was completed at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Azevedo-Harman lived in South Africa for six years, from where she conducted research in several African countries. She then joined the Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva. She has acted as an EU observer for elections in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea Bissau, Liberia and Zambia. Published work includes several articles the most recent is "Parliaments in the land of the Big Man". The Journal of Legislative Studies, vol 17, 2011. In 2013, she published her first book “De Inimigos a Adversários Políticos? O Parlamento e os Parlamentares em Moçambique”, with the publishing house Leya of Mozambique |