WEBINAR: Launch of special issue of International Spectator
We are happy to promote the launch of a special issue of the "International Spectator" journal on Governance, Fragility and Insurgency in the Sahel: A Hybrid Political Order in the Making, guest edited by Morten Bøås and Francesco Strazzari.
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Once a region that rarely featured in debates about global security, the Sahel has become increasingly topical as it confronts the international community with intertwined challenges related to climate variability, poverty, food insecurity, population displacement, transnational crime, contested statehood and jihadist insurgencies. Sahel is in fact a political order in the making, where extra-legal governance influences the nature of political competition and multiple threats challenge international stakeholders.

The special issue includes the following articles:
- Governance, Fragility and Insurgency in the Sahel: A Hybrid Political Order in the Making (Bøås & Strazzari)
- The Fragility Dilemma in the Sahel (Osland & Erstad)
- Counterinsurgency Practice in Niger and Nigeria (Berlingozzi & Stoddard)
- The Great Illusion: Security Sector Reform in the Sahel (Venturi & Touré)
- Al-Qaeda & Islamic State Clash in Central Mali (Baldaro & Diall)
- The Dangers of Disconnection: Oscillations in Political Violence on Lake Chad (Iocchi)
- Gold Mining in the Sahara- Sahel (Raineri)
- Insurgent Appropriation of Grievances in Niger (Bøås, Cissé & Mahamane)
Attendees
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Henriette Ullavik Erstad
Former employee -
Kari M. Osland
Senior Research Fellow -
Alessio Iocchi
Senior Research Fellow -
Laouali Mahamane
Geographer by training and Director of Beta Consult, Niamey, Niger -
Abdoul Wakhab Cissé
Senior Researcher at the Resource Centre of the Alliance for Rebuilding Governance in Africa (ARGA) -
Luca Raineri
researcher in security studies at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies -
Yida Seydou Diall Seydou Diall
Doctoral Student and Research Lecturer in Private Law at the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences of the University of Bamako -
Edoardo Baldaro
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Recherche et Études en Politique Internationale (REPI) -
Nana Toure
Consultant on Gender, Governance, Human Rights, Peace and Security based in Mali -
Bernardo Venturi
Senior Fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) -
Ed Stoddard
Marie Curie Research Fellow in Conflict Studies at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies -
Laura Berlingozzi
PhD candidate in International Relations at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
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