The Claude Ake Visiting Chair in Uppsala, Sweden, is a research programme for senior scholars with professorial competence from African universities, specialised in areas like peace, conflict resolution, human rights and democracy.
The programme was co-founded in 2003 by the Nordic Africa Institute and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, who are also co-financing it.
[1][2] Only one person at a time can hold the Claude Ake Visiting Chair and the chair holder is offered a three-month stay in Uppsala to pursue his or her own research, with opportunities for lecturing, holding seminars and taking part in ongoing research activities at both institutions.
[3][4][5] The visiting chair is also contracted to publish an academic paper to be published in the Open Access series Claude Ake Memorial Papers.
The idea of setting up a chair in his name was first raised by political scientist Guy Martin, already immediately after Claude Ake's sudden and untimely death.