Maxwell School News and Commentary
Filtered by: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Jok discusses the link between violence and corruption in the Citizen
"One thing that has not been clearly delineated about violence in South Sudan is the role of corruption as a most insidious driver of the ghastly inequities that have now come to characterize the young state as one of the most unequal societies in Africa," writes Jok Madut Jok, professor of anthropology.
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Crime & Violence
Chance Briggs '97 MPA discusses Mozambique cyclone on NPR
Chance Briggs '97 M.P.A., country director for Save The Children in Mozambique, says "the Southern hemisphere has never seen anything like this in a natural disaster." He assesses that "right now, funding is the urgent need...If we don't get people quickly back on their feet now, they will have trouble reconstructing their houses, reconstructing their livelihoods."
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Natural Disasters
Castro paper on conflict in Sudan published in World Development
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Breaking Sudan: The Search for Peace
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Middle East & North Africa
Peter Castro study on flag politics in Ethiopia published
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Lili Dalton ’16, US Department of State
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Foreign Policy
Migration and National Identity in South Africa, 1860-2010
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), International Affairs
Rothenberg paper on collective action in Sierra Leone communities published in The Economic Journal
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Risk and Social Change in an African Rural Economy: Livelihoods in Pastoralist Communities
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