No Monopoly Left: How Drone Warfare Escaped Its Architects
Something is becoming impossible to ignore: wherever you look today – the skies above eastern Ukraine, the Persian Gulf, the plains of Burkina Faso – drones are reshaping the logic […]
Central Africa
Publications
External publications
Security Force Assistance, Social Networks, Coups, and the Re-Ordering of Power Relations
Security Force Assistance (SFA) delivered to fragile states where external and national actors share a common enemy aims to reinforce the national military and security actors more broadly. Such assistance […]
DRC National Inclusive Dialogue: Fake News? Or Not?
Multiple peace initiatives have been undertaken to end the conflict in East-DRC, and each is underpinned by a specific analysis of the causes and nature of the crisis. One strand […]
Commentaries
US Sanctions Rwandan Defence Force: What Next?
US foreign policy, after years of a close alliance with Rwanda, perceived as an efficient and stable partner country in an unstable Great Lakes region, seems to shift towards a […]
A Crowded and Fragmented Security Landscape in Africa: Identifying Three Trends and Their Consequences
It has been more than a decade since the UN last authorized a multidimensional peacekeeping in Africa, in spite of the continent experiencing the highest number of state-based conflicts in […]
Beyond the Jihadist Label: Understanding the ADF’s Multilayered Violence
Abstract This report argues that violence attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo cannot be understood through a single lens, such as jihadism, but […]