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Items
- Items is a space for engagement with insights from the work of the Council and the social sciences.
- Where Do Black Lives Matter? Police Violence and Antiracism in France and the United States
  by Jean Beaman
- Language Ideology Revisited
  by Jillian R. Cavanaugh
- Social Media and Democracy Research Grants Program Update:
  May 2019
  by Jason Rhody and Alondra Nelson
The Immanent Frame
- The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere.
- Deepening the “zero-sum binary”
  by Patricia Sloane-White
- Creating new Sufi publics at an old Sufi shrine
  by Katherine Pratt Ewing
- Martha, Mary, Meister Eckhart: A mystical provocation to mothers as host bodies
  by Lilith Acadia
Kujenga Amani
- Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa.
- Rural Banditry in Zamfara state, Northwest Nigeria
  by Samaila Suleiman
- Life as an APN Alumnus: An Interview with Dr. Amanda Coffie
  by African Peacebuilding Network
- Civil Society Organization and Counter-Terrorism in Northeastern Nigeria: A Conversation with Emeka Thaddues Njoku
  by Jaclyn Williams
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Fana Gebresenbet Erda

Fana Gebresenbet Erda is an assistant professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and a Research Fellow at the Centre of Africa Studies of University of the Free State, South Africa. He was a Wilson Center Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholar in 2014. He is currently a recipient of an African Peacebuilding Network Individual Research Grant (2017).

Essays

Development and Statebuilding at the Cost of Peacebuilding? The Case of the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia

Fana Gebresenbet Erda·

January 23, 2018

Cement Factory in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. Source: 'Gavin Houtheusen/Department for International Development

Building state institutions, providing services, and promoting economic development in conflict-affected regions are usually considered integral to peacebuilding. This essay…

Conflict

Security Implications of Hosting Refugees: The Case of South Sudanese Refugees in Gambella, Southwestern Ethiopia

Fana Gebresenbet Erda·

September 19, 2017

A group of South Sudanese refugees in Gambella, Ethiopia

This is a cross-post from Africa Up Close, the blog of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Africa Program.…