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Blog (63)

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Inauguration of New AU Headquarters- Addis Ababa, 28 January 2012, Paul Kagame

The Last Serious African Mediation Personal Reflections on the AUHIP Experience and the Meaning of African...
Abdul Mohammed May 28, 2026
Africa African Union Darfur Organisation of African Unity South Sudan Sudan
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Group side silhouette men and women of different culture

Between imagination and pragmatics: who is asking what’s next for peace? Part 1
Michelle E. Anderson May 19, 2026
Collective action Equality Justice peace World peace
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refugees from Darfur huddle around small structure

Sudan’s War Is Not Chaos — It Is Engineered
Dr Amgad Fareid Eltayeb April 15, 2026
Armed violence Famine Rapid Support Forces Red Sea Sudan UAE UK
Interview
Black and white photo of a woman against a white circular background with graphic elements.

The younger generation is fed up with corruption: interview with Alwande Khumalo 
Bridget Conley, Alwande Khumalo December 16, 2025
Arms trade Corruption
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A man adds Nigerian election candidate posters to a wall covered with political posters

Building Peace and Accountability in Transactional Political Systems
Jared D. Miller November 18, 2025
Conflict resolution kleptocracy Nigeria Political Marketplace
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A peaceful protester holds in front of his face a sign representing the Sudanese flag

Only the Sudanese Can Save Sudan — Even If Trump Stops the War
Abdul Mohammed, Alex de Waal July 16, 2025
Africa African Union Peacemaking Political Marketplace Sudan
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photo of a man in white casting vote in box with green, black or red cover.

Democracy’s Famine Prevention Record in Post-Colonial Africa
Raffael Hueberli July 15, 2025
Africa autocracy Democracy Famine Food insecurity Governance Nigeria Sudan
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Aerial top view container ship at sea port for logistics import export, shipping or transportation.

America versus the Houthis in the Red Sea
Alex de Waal April 1, 2025
Horn of Africa Houthi MENA region Middle East Red Sea Security UAE US Yemen
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photo of Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed at podium

Ethiopia: How it succumbed to ‘big man’ rule
Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe February 26, 2025
Africa Amhara EPRDF Ethiopia Governance Horn of Africa Oromo Political Marketplace
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curve of globe focused on the Horn of Africa with sudan highlighted in red

Pathways to Peace in Sudan: November 2024
Alex de Waal November 13, 2024
Africa African Union Middle East Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo Political Marketplace Rapid Support Forces Red Sea Sudan
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Shoulder of a person in camouflage, with an Ethiopian flag patch.

Tigray in the Eye of the Storm
Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe January 2, 2024
Abiy ahmed Eritrea Ethiopia Tigray
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many assorted flags are lined up on a table

Multilateralism for Dark Times
Alex de Waal December 6, 2023
African Union Humanitarianism Multilateralism United Nations
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Photo aerial view of waterfront commercial business district Lagos Island

Mobile Space-Times and the Rescaling of Political Community
Loren Landau November 29, 2023
Africa Equality Precarity
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Satellite image of Hurricane Maria near Puerto Rico

On Environmental Justice and Militarism
Gustavo Garcia November 8, 2023
Capitalism Climate Enviromental Justice Puerto Rico
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Small blue vehicle driving down a dirt road past a small clay home

Ethiopia’s Crises in Oromiya: Identity and state viability
Alex de Waal September 20, 2023
Ethiopia Oromo
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illustrated globe sudan highlighted in green.

The New Crisis in Darfur: What America the African Union and the UN Can Do to...
Alex de Waal September 18, 2023
Atrocities Darfur Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo Rapid Support Forces Sudan United Nations
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motorbike driving on dusty road through town

Somalia: State-making at the frontier of global trade
Alex de Waal September 13, 2023
Somalia
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refugee camp

Making Sense of Sudan’s War Four Months on
Alex de Waal August 24, 2023
Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo Rapid Support Forces Sudan
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Red book cover of Speaking Truth to Power -- Selected Pan-African Postcards by Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem.

‘Don’t Agonize, Organize!’ Remembering Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem’s Advocacy on Sudan
Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, Alex de Waal May 25, 2023
African Union Sudan
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sudan flag

Sudan’s New War and Prospects for Peace
Alex de Waal April 19, 2023
Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo Political Marketplace Rapid Support Forces Sudan
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4 new Ethiopian banknotes arranged on yellow background

Re-introducing the Political Marketplace to Ethiopia
Alex de Waal February 8, 2023
Abiy ahmed Ethiopia Political Marketplace
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Front page of Case 4:22-cv-40003 in the US District Court District of Massachusetts.

‘No More Rules’
Bridget Conley January 31, 2022
DOC Prison Violence
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The busy entrance of a crowded school that has been converted into a camp for displaced families. Families and children crowded around an arched gate.

What Next for Ethiopia?
Alex de Waal November 8, 2021
Ethiopia Tigray TPLF
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Cover of "Know the Beginning Well" by K.Y. Amoako

Development Partnerships or Transactional Politics?
Alex de Waal May 17, 2021
Africa Organisation of African Unity Thabo Mbeki
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man in suit with red tie holding spear in one hand and shield in the other, Tanzania president sworn in on stage

Tanzania’s Layered Covid Denialism
Eliab Taye September 11, 2020
Covid-19 Tanzania
Interview
Afewerk Tekle glass Africa Hall

Race and Liberation in South Sudan and the U.S: A Discussion with Jok Madut Jok
World Peace Foundation August 4, 2020
African Voices
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Government ZA Follow African Union Summit

An African Agenda for Peace: OAU Declaration at 30
Said Djinnit, El-Ghassim Wane July 9, 2020
Africa African Union Democracy Governance
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WPF circle logo

Africa’s Imminent COVID-19 Recession in Historical Context: First Thoughts
Alex de Waal May 11, 2020
Africa Covid-19
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WPF circle logo

Change and Theory in Violent Political Markets
Aditya Sarkar, Alex de Waal, Sarah Detzner, Benjamin J. Spatz May 8, 2020
Development Political Marketplace
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WPF circle logo

Governance Implications of Epidemic Disease in Africa
Alex de Waal April 22, 2020
Africa Conflict Data Fragile states Pandemic
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WPF circle logo

Thinking Critically in a Pandemic
Alex de Waal April 6, 2020
Disease Pandemic
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WPF circle logo

COVID-19: “Know your Epidemic, Act on its Politics.”
Alex de Waal March 31, 2020
Africa Covid-19 Pandemic
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WPF circle logo

Can There Be A Democratic Public Health? From HIV/AIDS to COVID-19
Alex de Waal March 19, 2020
Covid-19
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WPF circle logo

Don’t expect the coronavirus epidemic in the US to bring down President Trump
Alex de Waal March 18, 2020
Covid-19 Famine Governance Pandemic
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Photo of National Museum of African American History and Culture exterior against bright blue sky

Is the National Museum of African American History and Culture a memorial museum?
Bridget Conley February 28, 2020
Memorialization Racism US
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Laying the Past to Rest Book Cover against graphic design

Review of Laying the Past to Rest & 8211 The EPRDF and the Challenges of Ethiopian...
Teshome Berhe January 7, 2020
EPRDF Ethiopia TPLF
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WPF circle logo

Could the African Union be the entity that could save the day in Sudan? 
Solomon Ayele Dersso April 12, 2019
Africa African Union Sudan
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Source FT Famine graph

The Emerging Crisis: Is Famine Returning as a Major Driver of Migration?
Batul K. Sadliwala November 15, 2018
Famine Food insecurity Migration
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explosion

New Report Documents “Strategies of the Coalition in the Yemen War”
World Peace Foundation October 9, 2018
Famine Yemen
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WPF circle logo

Fragility in the Paradigm: Reviewing David Cameron’s Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development
Alex de Waal April 26, 2018
Development Fragile states Governance State building
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World Bank Figure

Walking in the shadow of the state A review of the joint World Bank United Nations...
Aditya Sarkar April 2, 2018
Armed violence Peacemaking Political Marketplace United Nations
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CNN better than parents chart

How a statue unveiled the President, part 2
Bridget Conley September 7, 2017
Equality Memorialization Racism US
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Towards a common doctrine for African Standby Force-led peace operations
Ann Fitz-Gerald July 17, 2017
Africa African Union Peace operations United Nations
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Defending Constitutional Rule as a Peacemaking Enterprise
Solomon Ayele Dersso July 12, 2017
Africa African Union Democracy Human Rights
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The ‘Politics of Protection’
Bridget Conley July 5, 2017
African Union Atrocities
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Inclusion in Peacekeeping
Alex de Waal May 12, 2017
Africa Peacemaking
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When Disorder Has a Value: Denunciation and Liberty in Armed Conservation in the Central African Republic
Louisa Lombard April 17, 2017
Central African Republic Disorder
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Peace and the security sector in Sudan, 2002–11
Alex de Waal April 14, 2017
Darfur Peacemaking Sudan
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An Age of Uncertainty
Will Reno March 30, 2017
Democracy Disorder Governance Trump US
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Tapscott

States of (in)security: Institutionalized arbitrariness as a mode of governance in northern Uganda
Rebecca Tapscott March 23, 2017
Governance Uganda
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Mark Duffield

Capitalism and Liberal Zombification
Mark Duffield March 22, 2017
Capitalism Democracy
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Theorizing (Dis)order: Exploratory Remarks
Alex de Waal March 14, 2017
Disorder Governance Political Marketplace
Interview
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Interview with Fred Bauma and Sylvain Saluseke
Bridget Conley December 1, 2016
Democracy DRC
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Katanga Gendarmes

Outlining a research agenda on private militarism and political markets in Africa
Aditya Sarkar August 2, 2016
Africa Armed violence Mercenaries Political Marketplace
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WPF circle logo

Reflections on the Report ‘African Politics, African Peace’
Solomon Ayele Dersso August 1, 2016
Africa African Union Peace operations United Nations
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WPF circle logo

Brexit Threatens World Peace & Security
Alex de Waal June 29, 2016
European Union Governance Peacemaking UK
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The Politics of Naming the Ethiopian Federation
Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe June 22, 2016
Ethiopia nationalism
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WPF circle logo

How Mass Atrocities End: new publication
Bridget Conley May 27, 2016
Bosnia Burundi Genocide Guatemala Indonesia
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Aerial photo of African Union Headquarters and surrounding city

How to chose the next AU Chairperson
World Peace Foundation May 6, 2016
Africa African Union
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All Perfectly Legal
Alex de Waal May 5, 2016
Africa Corruption
Interview
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Interview with Alex de Waal in Addis Fortune
World Peace Foundation March 28, 2016
Africa Darfur Sudan
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Two Definitions of Kleptocracy – and How ‘The Sentry’ Might be Useful
Alex de Waal February 1, 2016
kleptocracy Political Marketplace
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Human Security and African Peace Missions
Alex de Waal January 21, 2016
Africa Human Security

Publication (5)

Report

The Story of Ethiopian Governance: From a Centralized Public Service Monopoly to ‘Big Man’ Politics
Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe March 11, 2025
Paper

An African Agenda for Peace, Governance and Development at Thirty
El-Ghassim Wane July 1, 2020
Paper

Governance Implications of Epidemic Disease in Africa: Updating the Agenda for COVID-19
Alex de Waal April 25, 2020
Paper

Transnational Conflict in Africa
Alex de Waal October 14, 2019
Paper

What Went Wrong?: The Eritrean People’s Liberation Front from Armed Opposition to State Governance
Paulos Tesfagiorgis November 1, 2015

Project (1)

abstract illustration representing atrocities

How Mass Atrocities End

View Project about How Mass Atrocities End

Authors (2)

photo head shot of man in colorful shirt

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

WPF Board Member

Noel Twagiramungu

Noel Twagiramungu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, World Peace Foundation