Hamburg–Dar es Salaam’s Twinning at Fifteen: Prospects for Cooperation with a Confident Global South
GIGA Forum
Hamburg–Dar es Salaam’s Twinning at Fifteen: Prospects for Cooperation with a Confident Global South
Date
30/06/2025
Start
06:00 p.m. (CEST)
End
07:30 p.m. (CEST)
The twinning of the cities of Hamburg and Dar es Salaam will celebrate its 15-year anniversary in summer 2025 against the backdrop of shifting North–South relations. Today, countries in the Global South are entering the global stage with new confidence in the face of a reconfiguration of alliances. Global South actors leverage their growing global importance. Simultaneously, the influence of Europe and the United States is fading in these regions. What opportunities for North–South cooperation can a city-twinning offer in the context of these altered geopolitical constellations? How can the partnership between Hamburg and Dar es Salaam to contribute to a better mutual understanding beyond the narrow, project-based collaboration? What innovative forms of cooperation might be possible that would also provide food for thought globally?
Speakers:
Inken Bruns runs the city-twinning programme for Dar es Salaam at Diakonie Hamburg.
Regine Heß heads the department responsible for relations with East Africa and the Horn of Africa at the German Federal Foreign Office and was Ambassador to Tanzania from 2019 to 2023.
Dr. Henrik Maihack leads the Africa Department at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
Richard Shaba works in Tanzania in the area of development cooperation in Tanzania and is involved in the Dar es Salaam–Hamburg city-twinning programme.
Moderator:
Dr. Julia Grauvogel is a Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for African Studies.
We cordially invite you to a reception following the discussion.
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Outstanding contributions by researchers from all over the world feature in the GIGA’s four journals. The GIGA Journal Family is presided over by Sage, maintaining the ”platinum standard” of the Open Access model.
The Global Orders and Foreign Policies Research Programme studies the development and maintenance of regional and global orders in contemporary world politics – along with challenges to those orders – as well as examining the agency and policies of established and emergent actors and structures that contribute to these ordering processes.
The Globalisation and Development Research Programme studies the economic and political foundations of inclusive and sustainable development in a globalised world economy under geopolitical tensions. We engage in policy analysis to co-create and identify solutions for sustainable development.
The GIGA Institute for African Affairs analyses political and socio-economic developments in sub-Saharan Africa. The institute’s thematic core comprises political institutions, violent conflicts, and a variety of socio-economic challenges. The aim of our research is to paint a nuanced picture of sub-Saharan Africa.
Outstanding contributions by researchers from all over the world feature in the GIGA’s four journals. The GIGA Journal Family is presided over by Sage, maintaining the ”platinum standard” of the Open Access model.
The Global Orders and Foreign Policies Research Programme studies the development and maintenance of regional and global orders in contemporary world politics – along with challenges to those orders – as well as examining the agency and policies of established and emergent actors and structures that contribute to these ordering processes.
The Globalisation and Development Research Programme studies the economic and political foundations of inclusive and sustainable development in a globalised world economy under geopolitical tensions. We engage in policy analysis to co-create and identify solutions for sustainable development.
