Local peace negotiations such as the ones between Fulani and Dogon can contribute to peace building plans as they often provide a comprehensive insight into the roots of the problems.
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Mette Kaalby Vestergaard April 6, 2021 Africa, Latest Articles
Local peace negotiations such as the ones between Fulani and Dogon can contribute to peace building plans as they often provide a comprehensive insight into the roots of the problems.
Read More »Mette Kaalby Vestergaard March 2, 2021 Africa, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles, Sub-Saharan Africa
Located in West Africa, Guinea-Bissau, with its 1.8 million people, constitutes what has for many years been a fragile state located in between Senegal and Guinea. Beside the overshadowing problem of not being able to sustain a stable governing system, the country is struggling with networks of drug trafficking – a problem that is not new, but has proven hard to combat in the given security context.
Read More »Jack Davies February 18, 2021 Africa, Environment and Energy, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles
With water scarcity in some highly populated regions projected to increase over the coming decades, some have argued that wars over access to and control of water may become some of the most common, most devastating conflicts of the 21st century.
Read More »Luke Austin February 10, 2021 Africa, Economic Development, Latest Articles
The Japanese military presence in the Horn of Africa commenced in 2009, when two Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) destroyers were dispatched to the region to participate in counterpiracy operations following an emergency order from the cabinet. In 2011, in order to facilitate this, Japan Self-Defence Force (JSDF) Base Djibouti was established.
Read More »Oliver Hegglin February 5, 2021 Africa, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles, Middle East and North Africa, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
In the last months of 2020, Israel normalized its ties with four Arab countries. In the case of Morocco, the US issued a proclamation, recognizing Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, making it the first country in the world to do so. What consequences such recognition will have on what is essentially a conflict in limbo is unclear.
Read More »Mette Kaalby Vestergaard January 30, 2021 Africa, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles, Security and Defence, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uncategorized
While there is no doubt that both national and international anti-piracy laws will lead to better conditions for the fight against piracy, it is evidently important to be aware of the opportunities that national laws have where international law cannot deliver.
Read More »Oliver Hegglin November 26, 2020 Africa, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
While many assessments in the days after the coup in August foresaw instability in the region, no doubt due to the similarities seen in 2012, no increased instability, whether in Mali nor the greater Sahel region, has happened so far.
Read More »Mette Kaalby Vestergaard November 10, 2020 Africa, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
The legal debate around the position of civilians in the combatant landscape can both have consequences for the rights of the individuals in question, and also for the legitimacy of the intervention by Western forces in the Sahel.
Read More »Mette Kaalby Vestergaard October 13, 2020 Africa, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles
The 1994 Rwandan genocide is the most famous example of the power of language. This linguistic parallel between Cameroon and Rwanda is worrying, considering their similar history of discrimination patterns, human rights abuses and political exclusion of minority groups.
Read More »Alexa Reith May 6, 2019 Africa, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles
The horrific scale of fatalities and types of crimes committed in Rwanda in 1994, shocked the globe and rightly triggered powerful shifts in reform and practice for the international domain.
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