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 […]
Environmental Policies
Deconstructing Colonial Ecological Discourse through Indigenous Environmental Ethics for a Just and Sustainable African Future: The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Perspective
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 […]
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APDD Dispatches
Fellowship Spotlight: Interview with IRG Alumna, Dr. Pamela Khanakwa
by African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) recognized the Dean of the School of Liberal and Performing Arts (SLPA), Dr. Pamela Khanakwa (APN IRG 2015), for outstanding academic leadership at Makerere University, which has seen her supervise six of eighteen doctoral graduates, with three graduating within the official three-year timeframe. Link to full story: […]
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 Afr…
Book Reviews
Book Review: “Obstacles to Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Challenges Seen Through a Sudanese Lens”
by Dr. Brian Chaggu
“Obstacles to Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Challenges Seen Through a Sudanese Lens” offers a sustained and well-grounded interrogation and analysis of the structural, historical, and socio-economic constraints that continue to impede democratic consolidation across Sub-Saharan Africa. Anchored in Sudan as a principal case study, the book situates national political trajectories within wider theoretical and regional […]
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
Crimes Against Humanity
The European Right-Wing Moral Paradox: Condemning Sudan’s Atrocities While Juggling Strategic Silence and Migration Threats
by Dr. Nagmeldin Karamalla-Gaiballa
The recent debate inside the European Parliament over past and ongoing atrocities in Sudan exposes a profound moral contradiction at the heart of contemporary European political discourse.
Displacement
Home to Camp: Redirecting Ethiopian Peacebuilding Through Displaced Youth’s Voices
by Getnet Tesfaw Demsie
The phrase 'Home to Camp' is drawn directly from the testimonies of children and youth during research fieldwork conducted across Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in Northeast Ethiopia.
Ethiopia
The Faulty Foundations of Transitional Justice in Ethiopia and the Elusive Quest for Sustainable Peace