Tag: governance
Who cares for the refugees?
Platanos refugee self-organised solidarity, Lesvos. by Dimitris Dalakoglou and Alexander Alexandrides Like most scholars who research the current refugee crisis and borders in Europe, we were surp…
The Inner Beast released after Ugandan Elections 2016, Marianne Bach Mosebo
The Ugandan Presidential Election in 2016 left many Ugandans frustrated and angry at the election process and the announcement of the incumbent, President Yoweri Museveni, as the winner…
Elections in Uganda 2016: Rumours and the Terror of the Unknown, by Henni Alava and Cecilie Lanken Verma
Two parallel realities appear to exist in pre-election Uganda, especially when seen from the northern region of Acholiland ten years after it was declared ‘post-conflict’. In one, everything…
The power of language: discourses and efficacious fussiness in the Ugandan elections, by Anna Baral
On February 15, 2016, three days before Ugandan general elections, the four-times presidential candidate (and never a winner) Kizza Besigye was stopped by anti-riot and military police with…
Burundi, I, and the year of 2015, by Gudrun Sif Fridriksdottir
“I miss dancing” a friend of mine says sometime in late June. “What?” I reply, thinking I must have misheard him. “I miss dancing”, he hesitates a bit…
The Ties that Bind: Ex-Military Command Structures as a Foundation for Peace or Source for Insecurity? by Anders Themnér
The presence of large groups of ex-combatants is often seen as a major challenge to post-civil war stability. Experiences of ex-fighters engaging in different forms of violence have…
In the Journals – November 2015
Welcome back to In the Journals, a look at recent publications in the world of security, law, crime, and governance. November has brought forth a number of engaging and…
Bujumbura Burning, Part II: Misrepresentations of the Burundian Crisis and their Consequences, by Jesper Bjarnesen
Since April, Burundi’s capital of Bujumbura has been the scene of violent confrontations between security forces and civilian protesters who deplore president Pierre Nkurunziza’s candidacy in July‘s p…
“You think this is an Ebola Office?” Rebuilding trust in the aftermath of Sierra Leone’s outbreak, by Luisa Enria
We are sitting amongst the rubble of an unfinished building, a group of young men have stopped their construction work for a moment to take respite from the…
Popular resistance stopped the coup, by Sten Hagberg
Last week, Burkina Faso was breaking international news. In the midst of a government meeting, soldiers of the president’s security forces – the notorious Régiment de Sécurité Présidentielle…
Fixing Democracy
Looking at Lessing’s movement for political reforms in the US how might such ideas translate to electoral reforms in T&T Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at…
Fixing Democracy
Looking at Lessing’s movement for political reforms in the US how might such ideas translate to electoral reforms in T&T Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at…
Fixing Democracy
Looking at Lessing’s movement for political reforms in the US how might such ideas translate to electoral reforms in T&T Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at…
Unravelling Goliath
The editors of Anthropoliteia welcome Christopher Gaffney with a commentary on the current crisis at FIFA and its implications “Unfair Players” Photo by Christopher Gaffney CC BY-NC-PSA 4….
Things are never going to be the same again? Burkina Faso after the brush-up, by Cristiano Lanzano
Plus rien ne sera comme avant (things are never going to be the same again)! The slogan cried by protesters in the streets of Ouagadougou and other cities…
The Corruption Complex
The cultural logics of corruption and how they can be found in T&T Writing about corruption from the petty to the massive in Africa, anthropologist Jean-Pierre Sardan proposed…
乌镇时代 | Wuzhen Times
The first World Internet Conference was held November 19-21, in the scenic water village of Wuzhen (proudly endorsed by 7,000 years of history). English-language tech bloggers and news…
The view from above
The merits of bottom up thinking and the dangers of thin simplifications In Wednesday’s Guardian there was a piece about the life story of Clyde Haynes. Amongst many…