Dr. Annie Kok is a criminologist, policing scholar, and networks researcher with an interest in organized crime and public inquiries into policing. She received her PhD in Criminology from the University of…
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Military
Militarized Yet Under-Policed: The Dilemma of Conflict Early Response in the Niger Delta
by Chukwudi Gbadebo Njoku
Introduction: Violence and militarization of the Niger Delta The Niger Delta is one of the most oil and gas-rich regions in the world. Yet, it is mired in cycles of conflict and environmental crises that fuel underdevelopment and threaten human security.1 Each state in the region has unique and crosscutting forms of insecurity, including those […]
APDD Dispatches
Fellowship Spotlight: Interview with IRG Alumna, Dr. Pamela Khanakwa
by African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics
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 University, which has seen her supervise six of eighteen doctoral graduates, with three graduating within the official three-year timeframe. Link to full story: […]
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”
by Dr. Brian Chaggu
“Obstacles to Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Challenges Seen Through a Sudanese Lens” offers a sustained and well-grounded interrogation and analysis of the structural, historical, and socio-economic constraints that continue to impede democratic consolidation across Sub-Saharan Africa. Anchored in Sudan as a principal case study, the book situates national political trajectories within wider theoretical and regional […]
African Scholarship
Research-Based Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: My Reflections as an African Agribusiness and Peacebu…
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 Threats
by Dr. Nagmeldin Karamalla-Gaiballa
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.
