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Communities of Practice as a Transformative Strategy for Digital Peacebuilding in Africa

Background As digital technologies continue to reshape the global peacebuilding landscape, new possibilities and challenges keep emerging. Some limitations relate to epistemic injustices and blindness toward local perspectives and experiences, partly due to a universalist assumption that technologies function uniformly across contexts.1 During my African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Individual Research Fellowship (2023/2024), I explored the […]

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The Invisibility of the “Born Free” Generation in the New Namibian Cabinet

Introduction The growing and improving presence of younger individuals in African parliaments offer potential for greater age balance, but whether their potential will be fully realized remains to be seen. Globally, the youth constitute the majority of the voting population but are severely underrepresented in political life.1 While people under the age of 30 account […]

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May 1, 2025

The Dynamics of Conducting Field-based Research within Religious Spaces in South Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

Introduction This article is based on my experience conducting field research among African Pentecostal churches in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. My research project involved conducting interviews and examining liturgical practices for the purpose of identifying processes of reconciliation in these churches. It also investigated how such practices could complement socio-political ideologies that were […]

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April 23, 2025

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The Invisibility of the “Born Free” Generation in the New Namibian Cabinet

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Introduction The growing and improving presence of younger individuals in African parliaments offer potential for greater age balance, but whether their potential will be fully realized remains to be seen. Globally, the youth constitute the majority of the voting population but are severely underrepresented in political life.1 While people under the age of 30 account […]

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May 1, 2025

The Dynamics of Conducting Field-based Research within Religious Spaces in South Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

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Introduction This article is based on my experience conducting field research among African Pentecostal churches in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. My research project involved conducting interviews and examining liturgical practices for the purpose of identifying processes of reconciliation in these churches. It also investigated how such practices could complement socio-political ideologies that were […]

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April 23, 2025

Can Domestic Initiatives End the Conflict in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region?

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April 17, 2025
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April 17, 2025

Aborted Democratic Peacebuilding in Sudan: A Tale of Western Apathy, Regional Encroachments, and Domestic Disillusionment

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The views expressed here emanated from a panel discussion on “Trendlines and Transformations in African Democratic Governance: Lessons for US-Africa Relations,” held at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington DC., on November 13, 2024. In December 2018, Sudan witnessed the third democratic uprising in its post-independent history. Led by a broad coalition […]

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April 3, 2025

Is US-Africa Relations at the Crossroads: What does it mean for Africa?

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The views expressed here emanated from a panel discussion on “Trendlines and Transformations in African Democratic Governance: Lessons for US-Africa Relations,” held at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington DC., on November 13, 2024. Introduction The world is undergoing momentous geopolitical transitions as the major powers, along with a growing number of […]

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April 3, 2025

An Interview with Recent PhD Graduate and Next Gen Alumna, Susan Kung’u

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April 2, 2025
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April 2, 2025

An Interview with Recent PhD Graduate and Next Gen Alumnus, Dr. Magolanga Shagembe

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Magolanga Shagembe is a lecturer, researcher, and social psychology consultant based in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His teaching, research, and consulting areas are on social thought and behavior, work/organizational behavior and well-being, child and adolescents’ learning and development, as well as mental health and psychosocial […]

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March 27, 2025

Is Religion Always Violent? Understanding Religious Peacebuilding, with a Focus on the Catholic Church

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Introduction Is God violent? Would the world be better off without religion, or can religion be a force for peace? In countries like Nigeria, where religion and religious actors are often associated with violence, can they also play a vital role in peacebuilding? This article addresses those pertinent questions by building on my doctoral research […]

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March 20, 2025

Leveraging Person-Centered Communication to End FGM: In conversation with FGM Survivor, Habiba Haro

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February 6, 2025
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