Dr. Onyinyechukwu Onyido Durueke was interviewed during the APN-WANEP Policy Dialogue on “Mediating Natural Resource Conflict in Africa: Connecting Practice to Research” in Abuja, Nigeria. The interview has been edited for length…
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Essays
A Researcher’s Dilemma: Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork in the Volatile Terrain of North Central Nigeria
by Abosede Omowumi Babatunde
As a member of a collaborative research team awarded a research grant by the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to carry out a study on “Herders-Farmers Conflicts in Africa: Historical Trajectories: New Issues, Responses and Lessons for Peacebuilding,” I conducted fieldwork in the conflict-affected Plateau state, in North Central […]
Interviews
An Interview with APN Alumnus Dr. Admire Mare
by African Peacebuilding Network
The APN held a Media Experts Consultative Meeting on “Model Curriculum for Conflict-Sensitive Journalism in Africa,” in Accra, Ghana in collaboration with the University of Ghana from June 19th-20th, 2019. We had the opportunity to sit down with APN alumnus (IRG 2013) Admire Mare and ask him a few questions. The interview has been edited […]
Africa
Rethinking Responses to Displacement in Northeast Nigeria
by Dr. Titilope F. Ajayi
As a panelist at the maiden Kofi Annan Peace and Security Forum held in Accra in early September 2019, I was invited to reflect on the challenges facing internally and externally displaced populations in situations of violent extremism. In retrospect, I realize that there is a tendency and temptation to frame these primarily in terms […]
APDD Dispatches
An Interview with Patricia Serwaa Afrifa, Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Alumnus
by Next Generation Social Sciences
Dr. Patricia Serwaa Afrifa holds a PhD in African studies from the University of Ghana, Legon. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in linguistics and sociology and a Master of Philosophy degree in African studies from the same university. Her teaching and research interests are family studies (with specific emphasis on childhood studies), gender […]
Africa
Points of Tension between African States and the International Criminal Court
by Maxine Rubin
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been accused of unfairly targeting African states. The ICC began operating in 2002 and it is the first permanent court that has the power to prosecute individuals for acts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of aggression, which are considered as the “core crimes.” Accusations of […]
2019 APN Grantees
An Interview with 2019 APN Grantee Umar Ahmed
by African Peacebuilding Network
Umar Ahmed is a lecturer at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria. He received both his BA and MA degrees from the Department of Modern European Languages and Linguistics, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria, and an MPhil in TESL (Applied Linguistics) from the University of Ghana, Legon. He later got his PhD in languages and literatures […]
