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.
International Relations
Haunted Histories: American Interventionist Politics and the Sokoto Caliphate Imaginary
One of the underlying forces shaping the United States’ interventionist discourses in Nigeria today is not intelligence, strategy, or local realities, but a haunted historical imaginary, featuring the Sokoto Caliphate as a living jihadist project against Nigerian Christians.
Sexual Violence
How Boko Haram Grooms Young Men and Boys Sexually for Terrorism – and its Implications for Peacebuilding
In my research titled “Queering Terrorism”, published in the journal Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, I examined the sexual practices of terrorist groups such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) and their implications for counter-terrorism policies.
Latest posts
Ethiopia
The Faulty Foundations of Transitional Justice in Ethiopia and the Elusive Quest for Sustainable Peace
by Beza Dessalegn
Transitional justice (TJ) has been hailed as Ethiopia’s long-awaited antidote for achieving the elusive quest for sustainable peace by addressing both old and current human rights violations. In the context of the new human rights quagmires, priority was placed on TJ to ensure sustainable peace, as outlined in the Pretoria Agreement signed between the federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
International Relations
Haunted Histories: American Interventionist Politics and the Sokoto Caliphate Imaginary
by Samaila Suleiman
One of the underlying forces shaping the United States’ interventionist discourses in Nigeria today is not intelligence, strategy, or local realities, but a haunted historical imaginary, featuring the Sokoto Caliphate as a living jihadist project against Nigerian Christians.
Sexual Violence
How Boko Haram Grooms Young Men and Boys Sexually for Terrorism – and its Implications for Peacebuilding
AUSS Publications
AUSS-SA: The Rise of a New Academic Generation in South Africa
by Bambo Miti
The launch of the SSRC African University Seminar Series in South Africa (AUSS-SA), which took place from the 18th to the 19th of September 2025 at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits University) School of Governance in Johannesburg, can be compared to the birth of a child.
Ethiopia
Gender-Based Violence and the Peacebuilding Deficit in Ethiopia’s Transitional Justice Process
by Beza Dessalegn
One of the major expectations of Ethiopia’s Transitional Justice (TJ) process in the context of post-conflict reconciliation, reconstruction, and sustainable peace is that it will deliver justice to victims of conflict-related gender-based violence (CRGBV). While CRGBV continues unabated in the conflicts currently underway in different parts of Ethiopia,1 the region of Tigray has been particularly identified as the worst-case scenario.
Government and Politics
Book Review: “Militarizing More to Develop Faster? Uganda’s Difficult Choices on Governance, Human Rights and…
Energy and Fossil Fuels
How the Structural Adjustment Era Continues to Shape Urban Africa’s Energy Future
by Dr. Nelson Oppong
Introduction Africa’s clean energy revolution makes compelling headlines. Solar panels glint on rooftops, mini-grids illuminate rural communities, and countries like Namibia1 are betting big on green hydrogen. Electric vehicles are now a feature in the urban iconography of cities, from Accra to Cairo. These images fuel hope for not only climate resilience but also justice […]
Elections & Governance
When History Becomes a Weapon: Elite Manipulation of Politics in Plateau State, Nigeria.
by Gloria Longbaam-Alli
Twenty-four years after the 2001 Jos crisis, political, religious, and traditional elites have transformed historical memories of violence into weapons of electoral manipulation.
Environmental Policies
Pathways to peace in tourism-induced natural resource conflict in the Kakum National Park Area of Ghana