At Last A Treaty to Protect Citizenship Rights and End Statelessness in Africa
Last week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) adopted a new treaty Relating to the Specific Aspects to the Right to a Nationality and the...
View ArticleMobile Space-Times and the Rescaling of Political Community
Essay originally drafted for the WPF seminar, ‘What Animates and Challenges the Possibilities for Collective Action today?‘ held in September 2023. This exploratory paper explores a fundamental...
View ArticleThe Deluge Facing Africa’s Leaders Is Going to Get Worse
Originally published by The New York Times on August 13, 2023. An uninterrupted swath of African countries from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea is now under military rule. Mali, Guinea, Chad, Sudan,...
View ArticleMaking Peace in a Political Market: Four Questions for a Mediator
Many of the world’s conflicts are in places where institutions have failed and violent transactional politics rules. Often, the battlefield is only the tactical arena—what counts strategically is the...
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Development Partnerships or Transactional Politics?
“Development Partnerships or Transactional Politics? An Insight into the Continent’s Struggle for Economic Transformation” was originally published May 12, 2021 on the African Arguments blog,...
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Is Democracy Retreating in West Africa?
The podcast series “African Voices, African Arguments” features African scholars, writers, policy makers and activists on issues of peace, justice and democracy, and is produced by World Peace...
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“They Have Destroyed Tigray, Literally”: Mulugeta Gebrehiwot speaks from the...
This a special podcast from World Peace Foundation on the war in Tigray, Ethiopia. It is a recording of a phone call from somewhere in rural Tigray on January 27, in which Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe...
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Talking and fighting about self-determination in Ethiopia
Summary: the political dispute that led to war in Tigray, Ethiopia, was sparked by contending interpretations of the right to self-determination in the country’s constitution. A themed collection in...
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Elevating Voices in Sudan
The podcast series “African Voices, African Arguments” features African scholars, writers, policy makers and activists on issues of peace, justice and democracy, and is produced by World Peace...
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Emancipating the Humanitarian System in Africa: A Conversation with Degan Ali
The podcast series “African Voices, African Arguments” features African scholars, writers, policy makers and activists on issues of peace, justice and democracy, and is produced by World Peace...
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Race and Liberation in South Sudan and the U.S: A Discussion with Jok Madut Jok
The podcast series “African Voices, African Arguments” features African scholars, writers, policy makers and activists on issues of peace, justice and democracy, and is produced by World Peace...
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Pan African Solidarities: Insights from Africa and America, a Discussion with...
Photo: Afewerk Tekle Glass, Africa Hall, Alan Johnston, June 6, 2010 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) The podcast series “African Voices, African Arguments” features African scholars, writers, policy makers and...
View ArticlePOMEPS Studies 40: Reflections on Africa and the Middle East
This blog is excerpt from the Concluding Reflections of the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Studies 40 – Africa and the Middle East: Beyond the Divides. If ‘Africa’ straddles the...
View ArticleKenya and Covid: Pandemic Response Risks Excluding Minority Groups
Today, the divide between those who the Kenyan state recognizes and those it does not is being felt in new, potentially harmful ways as the Covid-19 response reinforces existing fault lines of power...
View ArticleAfrica’s Imminent COVID-19 Recession in Historical Context: First Thoughts
The COVID-19 pandemic will, it is feared, bring about the most severe global recession for decades. It will also restructure the global economy. Some of these dynamics are already clear in the U.S.,...
View ArticleGovernance Implications of Epidemic Disease in Africa
The memo, “Governance Implications of Epidemic Disease in Africa: Updating the Agenda for COVID-19″ was originally posted by the London School of Economics, as part of the Conflict Research Program....
View ArticleCOVID-19: “Know your Epidemic, Act on its Politics.”
Three questions to ask about epidemic control policies in Africa This essay suggests three basic considerations for planning COVID-19 responses in Africa: (1) anticipate the country-specific...
View ArticleCan There Be A Democratic Public Health? From HIV/AIDS to COVID-19
This article was originally published by African Arguments on March 19, 2020. As we are re-learning with the coronavirus pandemic, the outbreak and global spread of a novel disease, which has neither...
View ArticleBashir to The Hague?
The announcement by the Government of Sudan that it intends to hand over former President Omar al-Bashir and three other individuals to the International Criminal Court is dramatic, surprising, and...
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Why Ethiopia is in deep trouble, and how it got here
“Why Ethiopia is in deep trouble, and how it got here” by Mulugeta G. Behre is originally published in The Conversation, February 2, 2020 Ethiopia has seen dramatic transformation and change over the...
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