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I Did It to Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone, by Catherine E....
Sierra Leone’s was a complicated war. One of the first post-Cold War conflicts, and seemingly one of the more intractable and bizarre, there is still no consensus explanation for what happened in...
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Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The Importance of...
Introduction Truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs) are temporarily established to investigate and document war atrocities committed against civilian populations.[1] They promote reconciliation...
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Transnational Threats to Peace in Africa
Transnational security threats to states and people have brought much violent conflict and instability to Africa, and must be urgently and effectively addressed if the continent is to be independent,...
View ArticleThe Day the Burkinabé People Recovered Their Voice
As Burkinabé protestors burned a statue of President Blaise Compaoré—which stood alongside that of the late Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso’s second largest...
View ArticleAPN Grantee on the Future of Democracy and Peace in West Africa
The following is an interview with APN 2013 grantee Professor Oluwafunmilayo J. Para-Mallam, on the sidelines of a policy dialogue organized by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) West...
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The Role of Journalists in Improving Media Coverage of Conflict and...
Photo credit to Dagan Rossini.The following is an interview with Professor Audrey Gadzekpo, an APN 2014 individual research grantee and dean of the School of Information and Communication Studies at...
View ArticleWhither Peacebuilding Initiatives? The Escalation of Herder-Farmer Conflicts...
There is a growing trend towards episodic, low-intensity conflicts across Nigeria, particularly in its north-central and southern zones. These conflicts often involve nomadic Fulani herdsmen and...
View ArticleInsecurity, Conflict, and Militancy in the Maghreb and Sahel Regions
Throughout the Maghreb and Sahel regions of Africa, many communities are struggling under the strain of new patterns of violence that emerged after the Arab Spring as well as episodic cycles of...
View Article“No Cattle Would Be Left Out”: Farmer-Herder Conflict and the Challenge of...
Farmer-Herder conflicts have grown in frequency across the Sahel region of West and Central Africa, including in Ghana, where they have evolved over time in phases. This article explores the drivers of...
View ArticleThe Disappearing Lake
Is climate change likely to be a threat multiplier in conflict-prone regions? Under what conditions? What can be done to ameliorate it? These questions broadly capture the focus of my research. Much...
View ArticleRural Banditry in Zamfara state, Northwest Nigeria
Nigeria’s Northwest is gradually becoming another major regional theatre of violence, much like the Northeast where Boko Haram terrorists have wreaked havoc in the past ten years. A problem, which...
View ArticleSecuring Peace and Stability in Africa: An Interview with Dr. Chukwuemeka Eze
The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) held a joint training workshop in Peduase, Aburi, Ghana from the 24th to the 28th of June, 2019. We had...
View Article‘#ChurchToo’? The Women’s Rights Movement and the Sexual Emancipation of...
Several allegations of sexual impropriety have over the years been leveled against ‘Biodun Fatoyinbo, the senior pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), a popular Nigeria-based megachurch....
View ArticleA Researcher’s Dilemma: Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork in the Volatile...
As a member of a collaborative research team awarded a research grant by the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to carry out a study on “Herders-Farmers...
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