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Recent Posts
- In between homes – the in-between existence of refugees in transit in Eastleigh, Nairobi, by Lena Johansson (master student at Uppsala University)
- Congosa politics: Rumours and elections in Sierra Leone, by Diana Szanto
- Elective Affinities: Fragility and Injustice in the Field, by Luisa Enria
- Can you imagine? Reflections on the SL elections and implications for penal policy and practice, by Andrew Jefferson and Luisa Schneider
- Sierra Leone General Elections 2018 – A personal diary, by Diana Szanto
- Urban kinship: the micro-politics of proximity and relatedness in African cities, by Jesper Bjarnesen and Mats Utas
- Fragile Security or Fatale Liaisons? Reflections on 2 March 2018 Attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, by Sten Hagberg
- Jostling for power: Sierra Leone’s election runoff, by Luisa Enria and Jamie Hitchen
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Category Archives: Militias
Congo crisis shows bankruptcy international military policies (guest post by Maria Eriksson Baaz and Judith Verweijen)
There is undoubtedly a need for a political solution to the ongoing Congo crisis, which recently reached new depths with the fall of Goma. Yet viable solutions to intricate, multi-layered conflict dynamics are difficult to reach when one party, in … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, Conflict economies, Militias, PKOs
Tagged Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC
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”Even my grandmother would go fighting” (Guest Post by Ilmari Käihkö)
Sitting between houses in a yard close to one of the busiest roads in Monrovia we were seven: six former ”generals” – a common term used to refer to any rebel commander – of the rebel group LURD and me. … Continue reading
Bleak prospects in Ivory Coast: the Third Ivorian War (Guest post by Ilmari Käihkö)
As this researcher packed his things and returned to Monrovia the prospects in Ivory Coast require one more look. While I still regard Ble Goude’s victorious prophecy that I discussed in my previous post false in the sense that toppling … Continue reading
The logic of staying mobilised – Liberian ex-combatants and the 2011 elections (Guest post by Mariam Persson)
In most post-conflict countries much is at stake and tensions are high during elections. The Liberian 2011 elections were no exception. The difference between winning and losing can be huge, because in Liberia the winner takes it all. But here … Continue reading
Harvesting the rotten fruits of repeated rebel military integration: some reflections on the new rebellion in eastern DRC. Guest post by Maria Eriksson Baaz and Judith Verweijen
In recent months, we have seen renewed large-scale fighting and a new wave of displaced in the Kivu provinces of eastern DRC. The current upheaval started in April, when an important faction of the former CNDP rebel group, who had … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, Conflict economies, Excombatants, Militias
Tagged Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC
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“We will be victorious” guest post by Ilmari Käihkö
“We will be victorious” is a famous statement made by the former Ivorian Youth Minister Charles Ble Goude before the elections in Ivory Coast in 2011. This statement soon became iconic when the group Les Galliets adopted it as an … Continue reading
Post-Kaddafi repercussions in the Sahel: the Mali emergency, questions of radicalization and emerging West African discourses of “clashing civilizations”
In western media there has over the last days been an uproar against Ansar Dine who are seen destroying world heritage sites in Timbuktu. Destroying buildings give more attention than killing people in Northern Mali and it is far from … Continue reading
Has Grand Gedeh County become a frontline? Guest post by Ilmari Käihkö on the situation in the Liberian borderlands
Recent weeks in Grand Gedeh following the cross-border attack to Ivory Coast have been interesting. After the arrival of the “Joint security” consisting of the Armed Forces of Liberia, the armed Emergency Response Unit (ERU) of the Liberian National Police … Continue reading
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