From the monthly archives: April 2023

On a Request for an Emergency Prison Intervention

On April 28, 2023 By

Democratic societies need prisons – so the argument goes — as the harsh side of rule of law. No one is equal before the law, a key premise of democracy, […]

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Making Sense of a Senseless War: Readings on Sudan

On April 24, 2023 By

Sudan’s civil war is senseless but was forseeable. The prospect of street fighting in the national capital, comparable to Mogadishu in 1991 or Tripoli in 2012, was too awful to […]

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Sudan’s New War and Prospects for Peace

On April 19, 2023 By

Sudan’s war-makers refuse to learn from history. Time and again they seem to believe, despite every piece of evidence from the country’s sorry history of conflict and destruction, that using […]

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Plagiarism in Abiy Ahmed’s PhD Thesis: How will Addis Ababa University handle this?

On April 12, 2023 By

Alex de Waal, Jan Nyssen, Gebrekirstos Gebreselassie, Boud Roukema and Rundassa Eshete

Ever since Abiy Ahmed was awarded his PhD degree at the Institute of Peace and Security Studies […]

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Making Markets: South Sudan’s War Economy in the 21st Century

On April 5, 2023 By

A shift from a political economy predicated on the distribution of oil revenues to one based on the apportionment of positions and licenses has intensified inequality in South Sudan and enabled continued elite domination.

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