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August 2013
- August 26th 2013
- New at Kujenga Amani: Linda Darkwa examines Ghana’s recent efforts to reform its elections process →
- August 5th 2013
- Kujenga Amani continues its series on the 2012 Ghanaian elections with a recent essay by Jasper Ayelazuno →
July 2013
- July 15th 2013
- New at Kujenga Amani: "The Role of the Security Sector in Ghana’s Democracy: A Case Study of the December 2012 Elections," by Kwesi Aning and Ernest Ansah Lartey →
- July 1st 2013
- Kujenga Amani is featuring a new piece by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo in its Peacebuilding in Congo essay series →
May 2013
- May 16th 2013
- New essay at Kujenga Amani suggests historical connections between contemporary conflicts: "Congolese Crisis and Demographic Problems in the African Great Lakes," by Guy Aundu Matsanza →
- May 6th 2013
- Cyril Obi, director of the African Peacebuilding Network, has been appointed to the advisory board of the University of Pretoria journal Strategic Review for Southern Africa →
February 2013
- February 28th 2013
- The latest at Kujenga Amani: "From Ethnic Violence to Seeds of Peace: Pastoralists, Youth, and Intercommunity Peacebuilding in Northwestern Kenya," by Willis Okumu →
December 2012
- December 14th 2012
- The African Peacebuilding Network announces the award of research grants to 23 African scholars and practitioners to support 11 individual and 6 team projects on peacebuilding and statebuilding in Africa →
- December 11th 2012
- New at Kujenga Amani: anthropologist Daniel Hoffman reviews Catherine Bolten’s ethnography, I Did It to Save My Life, which explores personal accounts of the civil war in Sierra Leone →
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