Men and women who took part in an interfaith programme experienced a remarkably lower incidence of violence, even years later.
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Armed conflicts affect the entire spectrum of healthcare, from prevention to treatment.
He will have a joyful welcome but a difficult task - to challenge negative values while enabling a more African Catholic church.
Author shows how politicians intent on settling problems by physically eliminating opponents tap into a ready source of assassins from within the taxi industry.
Leaders’ efforts to end conflict have been ineffective. Working through regional economic communities might be part of a better approach.
Local peacebuilders must step up to the plate with support from their counterparts in the international community.
The return of South Sudan’s opposition leader
is likely to solidify the permanent ceasefire.
The build-up of foreign armed forces does not bode well for the citizens of Niger.
It is misguided to blame armed conflict and violence on climate change alone.
It’s the fourth time a peaceful democratic election has taken place in Sierra Leone. But these are not the stories we hear.
The risk factors at the heart of vulnerability to conflict can be resolved. But the first step is a ceasefire founded on an inclusive and credible agreement underwritten by the international community
Ending a war is not enough. The challenge for post-conflict situations in Africa is to escape the inter-war lawlessness maintained and reproduced by groups that have access to arms.
With northern Mali mired in conflict, increasing instability in the centre of the country is worrying observers. The attitude of the Malian authorities holds the key to defusing these tensions.
For the survival of iconic species in Africa, it is crucial that conservation efforts do not ignore conflict zones.
Will the latest Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict spiral into a large-scale military confrontation? The odds are highly unlikely: neither side believes it would gain from such an eventuality.
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Assistant Professor, Addis Ababa University
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Professor in Management Planning of Forest and Nature, University of Copenhagen
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Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Doctoral candidate, Regent University
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ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University
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Professor, Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland
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Maître de conférences sur les conflits internationaux, University of Kent
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Chargé de cours, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco)
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Visiting Professor, University of Kent
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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
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South Sudan Senior Advisor, International Growth Centre, and PhD candidate, University of Cambridge, International Growth Centre
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Researcher, International Growth Centre
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Director & SARChI Research Chair: Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow, KU Leuven