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…
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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 African Future: The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Perspective
by Mohammed Seid Ali
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 […]
Book Reviews
Book Review: “Obstacles to Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Challenges Seen Through a Sudanese Lens”
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
by Yunana Ahmed
“In times of conflict, the loudest voices often drown out the most important ones, but what if true peace begins when those who suffered most get to tell their own stories?” – Tales of Turning Digital Peacebuilders (2025)1 Introduction This essay rethinks deradicalization by centering the voices of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in north-east Nigeria. […]
Crimes Against Humanity
The European Right-Wing Moral Paradox: Condemning Sudan’s Atrocities While Juggling Strategic Silence and Migration…
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
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