Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation, at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He published The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power in Polity Press, 2015.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s challenge in the Horn of AfricaA combination of a top-down approach aimed at preventing wars, and a bottom-up approach framed by the people’s...
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Published in: TransformationDesigner activism and post-democracyFor campaigners committed to transformational social change, the unscripted howl of celebrities is a weak peg on...
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Published in: openSecurityThe LRA: what's to be done?Supporters of the Kony 2012 campaign have posed two questions to critics: 'what would you do?', and 'what's the...
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Published in: openSecurityDon't elevate Kony
What is Kony2012? The apologists for Invisible Children call it “raising awareness.” Alex de Waal calls it peddling...
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Published in: openSecurityThe contest over peace and security in AfricaThe dominant interventionist approach to peace and security in Africa by-passes the hard work of creating domestic...