Dr. Annie Kok is a criminologist, policing scholar, and networks researcher with an interest in organized crime and public inquiries into policing. She received her PhD in Criminology from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 2025. Her dissertation investigates the structure of organized criminal networks involved in Cash-in-Transit Crime in South Africa by using […]
Military
Militarized Yet Under-Policed: The Dilemma of Conflict Early Response in the Niger Delta
Introduction: Violence and militarization of the Niger Delta The Niger Delta is one of the most oil and gas-rich regions in the world. Yet, it is mired in cycles of conflict and environmental crises that fuel underdevelopment and threaten human security.1 Each state in the region has unique and crosscutting forms of insecurity, including those […]
APDD Dispatches
An Interview with Recent PhD Graduate and Next Gen Alumna, Dr. Gerald Mandisodza
Biography Dr. Gerald Mandisodza is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Dullah Omar Institute, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa, where he recently completed his PhD in Comparative Constitutional Law. His research sits at the intersection of democracy, traditional governance, and gender justice. Specifically, he examines how marginalised communities, particularly […]
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Technology
The myth of technological neutrality: Perspectives on an Ethical Framework for African Peacebuilding Scholarship
APDD Dispatches
An Interview with Recent PhD Graduate and Next Gen Alumna, Dr. Annie Kok
by African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics
Dr. Annie Kok is a criminologist, policing scholar, and networks researcher with an interest in organized crime and public inquiries into policing. She received her PhD in Criminology from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 2025. Her dissertation investigates the structure of organized criminal networks involved in Cash-in-Transit Crime in South Africa by using […]
Military
Militarized Yet Under-Policed: The Dilemma of Conflict Early Response in the Niger Delta
by Chukwudi Gbadebo Njoku
Introduction: Violence and militarization of the Niger Delta The Niger Delta is one of the most oil and gas-rich regions in the world. Yet, it is mired in cycles of conflict and environmental crises that fuel underdevelopment and threaten human security.1 Each state in the region has unique and crosscutting forms of insecurity, including those […]
APDD Dispatches
An Interview with Recent PhD Graduate and Next Gen Alumna, Dr. Gerald Mandisodza
by African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics
Biography Dr. Gerald Mandisodza is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Dullah Omar Institute, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa, where he recently completed his PhD in Comparative Constitutional Law. His research sits at the intersection of democracy, traditional governance, and gender justice. Specifically, he examines how marginalised communities, particularly […]
Environmental Policies
Deconstructing Colonial Ecological Discourse through Indigenous Environmental Ethics for a Just and Sustainable African Future: The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Perspective
by Mohammed Seid Ali
Introduction Global climate change poses a profound threat to the right to a clean and healthy environment, intensifying conflict, displacement, food insecurity, poverty, biodiversity loss, and ecological degradation. These negative impacts are disproportionately borne by Africa despite the continent’s negligible contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions. This stark injustice exposes a deeper epistemic problem: dominant […]
Book Reviews
Book Review: “Obstacles to Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Challenges Seen Through a Sudanese Lens”
African Scholarship
Research-Based Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: My Reflections as an African Agribusiness and Peacebuilding Scholar
by Dr. Dickson Otieno Okello
Introduction The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how we conduct research, write, and disseminate our findings.1 What is important to note from the outset is that artificial intelligence will not replace human ingenuity and initiative. Human intelligence remains the true owner and controller of AI. Algorithms cannot replace these. However, if we […]
Internally Displaced Persons
From Displacement to Peacebuilding: How IDP Narratives Challenge State-Led Deradicalization in Nigeria
by Yunana Ahmed
“In times of conflict, the loudest voices often drown out the most important ones, but what if true peace begins when those who suffered most get to tell their own stories?” – Tales of Turning Digital Peacebuilders (2025)1 Introduction This essay rethinks deradicalization by centering the voices of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in north-east Nigeria. […]
Crimes Against Humanity
The European Right-Wing Moral Paradox: Condemning Sudan’s Atrocities While Juggling Strategic Silence and Migration…