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Meddling to promote peace in Africa
The “International Community” is a fuzzy concept covering a multitude of sins and virtues. Put simply, it’s when states operate together to promote international public good outcomes which transcend...
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Ten Things to Know about Africa: #5 Governance
This is the long-delayed fifth instalment in my occasional series designed to help interpret Africa for other outsiders. As I’ve said before, I have given myself a licence to over-generalise, hoping...
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(How) can new leaders effect change from within? The case of Guinea-Conakry
Alpha Condé became president of the Republic of Guinea almost a year ago, after a tense and difficult – at times violent – election. As such he is the first president in Guinea’s history who can claim...
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Four measures of success at Busan
This is slightly adapted from a piece co-written with Dan Smith and with inputs from other colleagues at International Alert, and represents not just my views but those of Alert, which has advocated...
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Kyrgyzstan and Guinea?
I am fond of saying that one of the biggest problems in the international development & peacebuilding sectors is the hammer-nail phenomenon. I.e. when organisations tend to identify the problems...
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