Starving Tigray: Mass atrocity and humanitarian emergency in Ethiopia
Panel discussion on war and famine in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
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Horn of Africa
Responding to Crises in the Horn
WPF Executive Director, Alex de Waal, has led several efforts to document and analyze the political and human rights crises
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Starving Tigray
The war in Tigray has comprehensively dismantled the region’s economy and food systems.
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New Occasional Paper: “Sudan–A Political Marketplace Framework Analysis”
Alex de Waal analyzes the development of Sudan’s political economy and political market.
Read moreInteractive Timeline: the work of the AUHIP in Sudan and South 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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Peace in the Horn of Africa
The Peace in the Horn of Africa program builds upon the WPF engagement with the African Union, including our 2016
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The Transnational Conflict in Africa Dataset
Most armed conflicts in Africa have a significant transnational element. This key research finding inverts the standard trope that the
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Pax Africana or Middle East Security Alliance in the Horn of Africa and the 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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The Prairie Fire that Burned Mogadishu
A new occasional paper by Alex de Waal, as part of the Conflict Research Programme.
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The Emerging Global Order, Multilateralism and Africa
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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