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The Policy Center for the New South organized the 7th African Peace and Security Annual Conference (APSACO) on July 10-11, 2023, under the theme ‘Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa’. This annual conference provides a platform for the analysis of Africa’s peace and security structures and institutions, focusing on the continent’s assets, history, and its ability to overcome current and emerging challenges and gain global competitive advantage. The debate on post-conflict reconst ...

This Paper was originally published on agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com   Water plays a central role in several socioeconomic and environmental nexuses. Faced with various anthropogenic pressures that act as water scarcity drivers and knowing that the unavailability of water can be a limiting factor for economic development, there is an urgent need for the design and evaluation of economic instruments that help in the management of water resources. This article presents a proposal ...

Bientôt disponible en vente sur Livremoi.   En présentant ces textes, publiés dans les plateformes du Policy Center for the New South, pour partie, et dans divers supports, pour l’autre, on découvre à leur lecture des sujets absents des sciences sociales nationales. Le premier défi que doit surmonter le chercheur marocain qui s’intéresse aux affaires militaires et de sécurité (AMS) est la sous-conceptualisation du domaine en raison du désintérêt des universités et du c ...

In recent years, Iran has witnessed high levels of societal unrest, which has roots extending deep into the country’s rich history. Anti-regime protests notably spurred by tragic events such as the death in custody of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, have exposed the dual nature of Iran—the resilience of its young people and the severe crackdown put in place by its regime. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian, was apprehended by Tehran's "morality police" on 13 September 2022, al ...

La solidarité en situation de catastrophe naturelle est cruciale pour sauver des vies, fournir des secours et aider les populations sinistrées à se relever. Bien que les catastrophes naturelles soient dévastatrices dans bien de cas, elles révèlent souvent le meilleur de la nature humaine, lorsque les individus s’unissent pour s'entraider. Dans la phase initiale d'une catastrophe, une réaction rapide est impérative pour les opérations de sauvetage. Les membres de la communauté s'imp ...

On the day he formally took power in Nigeria, 29 May, President Bola Tinubu put an end to fuel subsidies.  It was a bold and politically difficult decision, but long overdue. Nigeria is a leading oil producer and yet its citizens struggle to put gas in their tanks. It exports crude oil but imports refined fuels. For years, the government capped the gasoline price and paid importers the difference between the higher landed cost of petrol and diesel and the lower price at the pump. Th ...

Theodora Skeadas is a 2022 alumna of Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders program. Learn more about her here. During the 2019 Indian general elections, researchers studied how organizers used a network of WhatsApp groups to manipulate Twitter trends through coordinated mass postings. The researchers joined 600 WhatsApp groups and found evidence of 75 hashtag manipulation campaigns in the form of mobilization messages with lists of pre-written tweets. During the election period, thes ...