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This Week in Africa, by Jeffrey Paller open.substack.com/pub/thisweekin…

Looking forward to hosting Professor Feargal Cochrane at Durham University next week! SGIA Durham Durham Global Security Institute IMEIS-DU

After four years since the first draft in Nigeria, I am honoured to finally share my review article on the crossroads of counter-terrorism and civil society organisations—crystallising the state-of-the-art in the field & proposing a future research agenda.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📣 Call for Papers 📣 Submissions are open for the 9th Annual Postgraduate Conference of the Society for Terrorism Research (STR)! This year, we are excited to be hosted by the @UnivofStAndrews' CSTPV. Submit your abstract by March 14, 2025: forms.office.com/e/jnkpHjZKpS

Join us for a session for on Publishing a PhD manuscript with Atifa Jiwa, Senior Commissioning Editor in Politics and International Relations, Bloomsbury Academic 📍 Online 📆 February 25, 2025 ⏰ 16.00-17.00 To register email: [email protected] School of International Relations TPVNetwork

NEW BOOK! The War on Terror Co-authored w/ Andrew Thomson HAPP at Queen's & part of the Short Histories series w/ Agenda Publishing, we explore the US War on Terror as domestic and foreign policy from the Cold War to the present. Out now ⬇️ agendapub.com/page/detail/th… cup.columbia.edu/book/the-war-o…

At this rate, by the time Tinubu is done with his 'state capture' project, Nigeria will make Angola's Dos Santos look like a neophyte in the State Capture playbook. Just the warm-up!

Whence is war? Take a look at my new article in the Review of International Studies to find out cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🚨 One week left to submit your abstract for the 17th Annual International Conference of the Society for Terrorism Research (STR), to be hosted by the Royal Holloway Law and Criminology and the CVTRC @cvtrc.bsky.social at Royal Holloway. 🧵 1/2

📄 Submit your abstract by April 11, 2025: forms.office.com/e/ixy0y8ZJvD 📧 Queries should be sent to the Local Organisers - Dr @LizzyPearson, Dr Ieva Cechaviciute, and Dr Akil N Awan | @akilnawan.bsky.social - at [email protected]. 🧵 2/2

Here is our new #CallForPapers #CfP for the upcoming Summer Issue No.43 of the Journal for #Deradicalization! Spread the word and send in your ideas! Learn more via journal-derad.com #PCVE #PeerReview #openacess

ON THE PhD CRAZE IN UGANDA ————— A honorary PhD is awarded on account of one’s outstanding contribution in a given field. It is not something that the beneficiary lobbies or pays for. But, like anything else on demand, today PhDs are vulgarised too. In academia, publications

Guy, Recently, I had the privilege of speaking on a podcast episode for Centre for African Justice, Peace and Human Rights I shared about a subject I am so passionate about: Conflict-related Sexual Violence against Men. I talked about the real life experiences of male survivors interracted with during my PhD

Joseph Nye, a Harvard professor whose ideas on the nature of power in international relations influenced generations of policymakers, academics, & students and made him one of the world’s most celebrated political thinkers, has died at the age of 88 ken.sc/3RQSGav

ISWAP last night dislodged the 50 Task Force Battalion in Marte, Borno state. As usual, it carted away weapons and destroyed some equipment, including military vehicles. Soldiers have returned to the base this morning.

As today is the International day of the Boy child, I’ll re-up this article with Emeka T. Njoku & Idris4Peace , calling for the need to not overlook the silent suffering of boys affected by conflict related sexual violence tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Honoured to have participated in an interesting #BISA2025 roundtable in Belfast with Critical_Terrorism_Studies_WG on identity, positionality & knowledge in (counter-)terrorism research in the Global South. Kudos to Akinyemi Oyawale and Emeka T. Njoku for leading a very reflective discussion!

The 2025 fellows—Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo, Khumisho Moguerane, and Eugenia Anderson—were selected through a competitive process recognizing scholarly excellence, originality, and contributions to African Studies. CARTA University of Ibadan africanstudies.org/awards-prizes-…