In the run-up of activities leading up to the 50th anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and the Conflict Research Network (CORN) – West Africa, organised a high-level policy dialogue from 15-16 April in Accra, Ghana, on “Understanding […]
Background As digital technologies continue to reshape the global peacebuilding landscape, new possibilities and challenges keep emerging. Some limitations relate to epistemic injustices and blindness toward local perspectives and experiences, partly due to a universalist assumption that technologies function uniformly across contexts.1 During my African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Individual Research Fellowship (2023/2024), I explored the […]
Introduction This article is based on my experience conducting field research among African Pentecostal churches in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. My research project involved conducting interviews and examining liturgical practices for the purpose of identifying processes of reconciliation in these churches. It also investigated how such practices could complement socio-political ideologies that were […]
Introduction The Ethiopian government has faced serious problems in Ethiopia’s most influential regions – Tigray, Oromia, and now Amhara. A year has passed since the fighting between the Amhara ethnic militia, called Fano, and the federal defense force continued, causing immense suffering and devastation. Domestic initiatives for conflict resolution and peacebuilding hardly brighten the prospects […]
The views expressed here emanated from a panel discussion on “Trendlines and Transformations in African Democratic Governance: Lessons for US-Africa Relations,” held at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington DC., on November 13, 2024. Introduction The world is undergoing momentous geopolitical transitions as the major powers, along with a growing number of […]
Dr. Susan Kung’u is a lecturer in Communication, Media and Gender Studies at the Presbyterian University of East Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Information Studies from the University of Nairobi, a Master’s degree from the same university, and a Bachelors in Education degree from Kenyatta University, Kenya. Her doctoral dissertation studied the […]
