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Anti-war protests, transnational solidarity and the liberation of Portuguese-speaking Africa, c. 1961-1974
Pedro Aires Oliveira visited the Peace Movements Project on an Erasmus Teaching Mobility, on exchange from the Institute of Contemporary History at NOVA University (Lisbon, Portugal). His expertise on anti-war and solidarity movements during the decolonization of Portuguese-occupied Africa is of great interest to us. As our own research projects deal with peace movements and…
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