Congratulations to this year’s APN-Next Gen Fellows!
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Introducing the African Peacebuilding Network’s and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa’s 2023 Fellows
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Research Findings, Scholarly Writing, and Publishing: Reflections on Transcending the Hurdles
by Flora Nguye Mutere
To transcend means to overcome challenges on the path toward achieving these standards, including facing formidable pressure to meet the requirements for attaining such heights.
Essays
Films, Fictional Works, and Social Media in Conflict Resolution in Nigeria: Harnessing a Non-Violent Communication Approach
by Joyce Onoromhenre Agofure
State promotion of the production and dissemination of artistic works that promote peace and harmony should be recognized as a viable avenue for promoting local peacebuilding.
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Artisanal Oil Refineries or Kpo-fire: A New Dimension of Petro-Insurgency in Nigeria’s Oil Producing Niger Delta Region?
by Justin Eduviere Agheyisi
In the Niger Delta region, which is associated with crude oil extraction and production, the marginalization of the host communities by oil companies has historically fueled non-violent and violent protests across the region.
Africa
Celebrating Every Effort to Build Peaceful Societies: The Experience of Two Peace Clubs in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in Yumbe District, Uganda
by Danson Sylvester Kahyana
That the youth want to break the cycle of violence through storytelling and performance shows their resolve to be active agents in determining and shaping their future.
APDD Dispatches
Against Mystification: Toward a Creative Practice of Writing
by Asher Gamedze
It would be a position of untold arrogance and bourgeois mystification to assume that this mode of thinking is only accessible to academics and that this mode of writing only exists in academic publications.
Essays
Taking on the Big Elephant in the Room? Nigeria after the 2023 General Elections
by Charles Ukeje
To support Nigeria, her international friends must avoid the temptation of placing their national economic, strategic, and geo-political interests ahead of the political rights and welfare of Nigerians by turning a blind eye to the excesses of the country’s political class and how they deliberately undermine democracy and governance priorities.
