“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. […]
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
