Commentaries
Former colonial countries appear increasingly willing to engage in processes akin to transitional justice in order to confront the legacies of their colonial past. In this blog post, Valerie Arnould […]
Commentaries
In this commentary, Egmont senior researcher and affiliated senior researcher with the Leuven Institute of Criminology (University of Leuven) Valérie Arnould examines the human rights challenges the Covid-19 crisis poses […]
African governments have been faster than most of their European counterparts in imposing measures to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak despite dealing with numerous other challenges. However, context matters, and […]
Commentaries
The Corona pandemic is changing the way we live and function as a society for at least the coming weeks or months. While it is a virus that does not […]
Other publications
This study focuses on soldiers returning from peacekeeping missions and the challenges they experience adapting to the home environment in the postdeployment phase. The article focuses on South African peacekeepers […]
How realistic and how fair are the expectations that we place on the small minority of female peacekeepers to bring an ‘added value’ to peace operations? Not at all, I […]
At this Africa Lunch Meeting, Prof. Nic Cheeseman from the University of Birmingham discussed the process, outcomes and future outlook of the 2017 Kenyan elections. Based on a firsthand account […]
Based on a first-hand account and a decade of studying Kenyan politics, Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham and former Director of the African Studies […]
Africa Lunch Meeting with Naomi Pendle, researcher at the London School of Economics. Naomi Pendle has published on local justice, prophecy, violence and landscapes in South Sudan since 2009. Her […]
For the celebration of Egmont Institute’s 70th Anniversary, the Africa Programme is holding a workshop: “Unthinking Eurocentrism about Africa”