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    • PEACE AND GLOBAL TRENDS
      • Global Arms Trade and Corruption
        • Revitalizing Debate on the Global Arms Trade
        • Defense Industries, Foreign Policy and Armed Conflict
        • Indefensible
        • The Corruption Tracker
      • Political Markets and Conflict Research
        • PeaceREP
        • Carbon Compacts, Decarbonization, and Peace in Fragile States in Africa and the Middle East
    • PROTECTING VULNERABLE GROUPS
      • Mass Atrocities Research
        • Memory from the Margins
        • Mass Atrocity Endings Research
        • Dignity for the Dead: In Their Presence
      • Mass Starvation Research
        • Accountability for Starvation
        • The History and Future of Famine
          • Famine Trends Dataset, Tables and Graphs
      • Tracking COVID-19 in Detention
      • Children and Youth Staying Safe in Violent Conflict
    • AFRICAN PEACE RESEARCH
      • Responding to Crises in the Horn
      • Sudan Peace Archive
      • African Peace Missions
  • Publications
    • World Peace Foundation Publications
    • Alex de Waal publications
    • Bridget Conley publications
    • Sam Perlo-Freeman publications
    • Dyan Mazurana WPF publications
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    • AY2022-2023 Events
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      • In Their Presence: Debates on the dignity, display, and ownership of human remains
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Horn of Africa

famine Horn of Africa mass starvation 

Starving Tigray: Mass atrocity and humanitarian emergency in Ethiopia

April 14, 2021November 14, 2022 Lisa Avery 1186 Views conflict, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Tigray

Panel discussion on war and famine in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

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Horn of Africa Program Sudan 

Responding to Crises in the Horn

April 9, 2021September 2, 2022 Lisa Avery 1972 Views

WPF Executive Director, Alex de Waal, has led several efforts to document and analyze the political and human rights crises

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Horn of Africa New Publication 

Starving Tigray

April 6, 2021March 2, 2022 Lisa Avery 152095 Views conflict, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Tigray

The war in Tigray has comprehensively dismantled the region’s economy and food systems.

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Horn of Africa Publications Research Sudan 

New Occasional Paper: “Sudan–A Political Marketplace Framework Analysis”

August 2, 2019August 31, 2020 Bridget Conley 1723 Views 0 Comment

Alex de Waal analyzes the development of Sudan’s political economy and political market.

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Horn of Africa Program South Sudan Sudan 

Interactive Timeline: the work of the AUHIP in Sudan and South Sudan

June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 Bridget Conley 1279 Views 0 Comment African Peace Missions, African Union, AU, mediation, South Sudan, Sudan

This interactive timeline charts the work of the AUHIP alongside key events in Sudan and South Sudan, with documents and photos.

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Horn of Africa Non-violent political action South Sudan Sudan 

Peace in the Horn of Africa

May 22, 2019May 6, 2022 Bridget Conley 2189 Views 0 Comment Democracy, South Sudan, Sudan

The Peace in the Horn of Africa program builds upon the WPF engagement with the African Union, including our 2016

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Horn of Africa Political Marketplace Publications 

The Transnational Conflict in Africa Dataset

April 24, 2019May 6, 2022 Bridget Conley 3399 Views 0 Comment Africa, African Peace Missions, conflict data, political marketplace

Most armed conflicts in Africa have a significant transnational element. This key research finding inverts the standard trope that the

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Horn of Africa Peace and Security Publications 

Pax Africana or Middle East Security Alliance in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea?

January 25, 2019August 31, 2020 Lisa Avery 1989 Views 0 Comment Horn of Africa, Middle East, political marketplace, Red Sea

A new occasional paper by Alex de Waal examines the peace and security challenges facing the Horn of Africa in the context of assertive military and political engagement from the Arabian Peninsular

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Horn of Africa Publications Somalia 

The Prairie Fire that Burned Mogadishu

December 13, 2018August 31, 2020 Lisa Avery 1536 Views 0 Comment Africa, clans, Somalia

A new occasional paper by Alex de Waal, as part of the Conflict Research Programme.

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Horn of Africa 

The Emerging Global Order, Multilateralism and Africa

September 29, 2017August 31, 2020 Lisa Avery 2004 Views 0 Comment Africa, African Union, multilateralism

In a new occasional paper, Alex de Waal argues that Africa, as a weak continent, has much to gain from multilateralism, and especially from its stronger more normative versions.

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