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The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa (2025)
Book
Opongo, E., Kaulem, D., Mbula Kilonzo, S., & Njeri, S. (Eds.). (2025). The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan

The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa is a groundbreaking reference resource that offers an interdisciplinary and decolonial exploration of peace, conflict, and security across the African continent. It features theoretical... Read More about The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa.

Dismantling colonial legacies: Decolonising research and teaching at the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine (2025)
Journal Article
Hafez, S., Clarke, A., Richter, K., Lokot, M., Rivas, A.-M., & Singh, N. S. (in press). Dismantling colonial legacies: Decolonising research and teaching at the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine. PLOS Global Public Health, 5(7), Article e0004833. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004833

Despite a burgeoning discourse within the humanitarian health community regarding decolonisation, there remains lack of practical guidance for researchers seeking to decolonise their work. We conducted a qualitative study which aimed to explore the p... Read More about Dismantling colonial legacies: Decolonising research and teaching at the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine.

Of continents and Großräume: the production and persistence of continentality (2025)
Journal Article
Newton, S. (online). Of continents and Großräume: the production and persistence of continentality. International Journal of Law in Context: A global forum for interdisciplinary legal studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1744552325100037

This paper renews the contemporary and enduring salience of archaic and discredited concepts of spatiality and physical geographic determinism, but historicises, repurposes and reworks them: it is an essay in critical and decolonial palaeo-territoria... Read More about Of continents and Großräume: the production and persistence of continentality.

Unsettling epistemic hierarchies in peace and conflict studies: the role of early career scholars and South-South collaboration (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Njeri, S., Holanda Maschietto, R., & Bueno, N. (2025, July). Unsettling epistemic hierarchies in peace and conflict studies: the role of early career scholars and South-South collaboration. Paper presented at Associação Brasileira de Relações Internacionais, Sao Paolo

Peace and Conflict scholars have increasingly recognized the global hierarchies in knowledge production, which disproportionately favour scholars and institutions from the Global North. Despite the promise of the “local turn” in peacebuilding, system... Read More about Unsettling epistemic hierarchies in peace and conflict studies: the role of early career scholars and South-South collaboration.

Shonar Bangla’s slow erosion (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
Quasem, S. (2025). Shonar Bangla’s slow erosion

In steering clear of dealing with it incidentally, the Yunus administration has failed to recognise that climate must be central to constitutional reform.

Sustainability (2025)
Other
Rudge, A. (2025). Sustainability

The term ‘sustainability’, as used in policy and common contemporary parlance, has a very European heritage, but its meanings and implications defy easy definition. While perhaps most famously the term is used in the UN’s ‘Sustainable Development Goa... Read More about Sustainability.

Between Rule and Prerogative: Petitions by terror-accused individuals and the imaginings of Indian law (2025)
Journal Article
Suresh, M. (in press). Between Rule and Prerogative: Petitions by terror-accused individuals and the imaginings of Indian law. Asian Journal of Law and Society,

This article argues that contemporary Indian law is animated by two intertwined imaginings of law: as a rational, rule-bound process and as a power that makes decisions as a normless act of prerogative. Through ethnographic fieldwork in Delhi's terro... Read More about Between Rule and Prerogative: Petitions by terror-accused individuals and the imaginings of Indian law.

Uttar Pradesh: BJP and the Mobilisation of Dalits and OBCs (2025)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (online). Uttar Pradesh: BJP and the Mobilisation of Dalits and OBCs. Forum for Development Studies, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2025.2528797

The 2024 election result in Uttar Pradesh (UP) was a shock for the BJP. The party had expected to increase its vote share significantly but instead, its support fell, and it was beaten by the Samajwadi Party (SP)-Congress alliance when it came to par... Read More about Uttar Pradesh: BJP and the Mobilisation of Dalits and OBCs.

Coexistence and colonialism: religious conversion and the expansion of Christianity in Northeast Africa (second–sixteenth centuries) (2025)
Journal Article
Phillips, J., & Tribe, T. (online). Coexistence and colonialism: religious conversion and the expansion of Christianity in Northeast Africa (second–sixteenth centuries). Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2025.2529113

This paper explores how the expansion of Christianity in Northeast Africa between the second and sixteenth centuries played a central and often complex role in the dissemination of colonialism. Initially introduced to first- or second-century Egypt,... Read More about Coexistence and colonialism: religious conversion and the expansion of Christianity in Northeast Africa (second–sixteenth centuries).

Mine clearance in aid of post conflict peacebuilding; The role of Humanitarian Mine Clearance Pioneer Corps (HMCPC) in Somaliland (1991-1994) 1 (2025)
Journal Article
Njeri, S. (online). Mine clearance in aid of post conflict peacebuilding; The role of Humanitarian Mine Clearance Pioneer Corps (HMCPC) in Somaliland (1991-1994) 1. Conflict, Security and Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2025.2510684

Somaliland’s post-conflict recovery and reconstruction, particularly its state-building process, has been extensively analyzed. However, a crucial yet largely undocumented aspect of this process was the landmine clearance program, which enabled human... Read More about Mine clearance in aid of post conflict peacebuilding; The role of Humanitarian Mine Clearance Pioneer Corps (HMCPC) in Somaliland (1991-1994) 1.

"'The Work is Blessed, Unique': The Fatimid Silver Casket of Sadaqa b. Yusuf" (2025)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2025). "'The Work is Blessed, Unique': The Fatimid Silver Casket of Sadaqa b. Yusuf". In G. Bilotto, F. Daftary, & S. Jiwa (Eds.), Fatimid Cosmopolitanism. History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion, edited by Gregory Bilotto, Farhad Daftary and Shainool Jiwa (335-371). I.B. Tauris and IIS

This paper contributes to the literature on Fatimid art and its connections with the broader Mediterranean art, through a focused study of an important and beautiful silver casket.

A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding: elite coalitions and the bureaucracy in Turkey (2025)
Journal Article
Coban, M. K., & Yesilkagit, K. (online). A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding: elite coalitions and the bureaucracy in Turkey. Policy Studies, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2025.2530057

The rise of populism and the authoritarian shift has triggered a debate on the politics-administration nexus with a focus on the politics of democratic backsliding and the role of the bureaucracy. Recent studies have increasingly concentrated on the... Read More about A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding: elite coalitions and the bureaucracy in Turkey.

Unpacking the Dutch Disease: Resource Windfalls and Export Margins (2025)
Journal Article
Lartey, A., & Kassa, W. (online). Unpacking the Dutch Disease: Resource Windfalls and Export Margins. IMF Economic Review, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41308-025-00290-1

What are the impacts of resource windfalls on the extensive and intensive margins of non-resource exports? Studies suggest that these windfalls could be detrimental to non-resource exports but are not clear on the margins through which exports adjust... Read More about Unpacking the Dutch Disease: Resource Windfalls and Export Margins.

Arabic Poetry and Neoplatonic Poetics (2025)
Journal Article
Sperl, S. (online). Arabic Poetry and Neoplatonic Poetics. Journal of Arabic Literature, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341545

The paper argues that a Neoplatonic reading of classical Arabic poetry can help to understand the cosmological implications of its figurative language and provide a new conceptual framework for comparisons between Arabic literature and other literatu... Read More about Arabic Poetry and Neoplatonic Poetics.