Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
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...