15:30 - 17:00
Burundi: Unlikely Conflict, Impossible Development?
Room: Muirhead - Room 113
Stream: The Political Economy of Development in Africa: The Politics of Economic and Social Transformation
Chair/s:
Benjamin Chemouni, Jean-Benoit Falisse
15:30 - 15:45
We-A49 Politics of Transformation 12-P-001
Mobile Democracy: Social media's impact on the new (and old) voices of Burundi’s 2015 electoral crisis
Adrienne Lemon
Search for Common Ground, Brussels, Belgium
15:45 - 16:00
We-A49 Politics of Transformation 12-P-002
From FM radio stations to Internet 2.0 overnight: information, mobility and social media in post-failed coup Burundi
Jean-Benoit Falisse
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom