On November 20, 2025, the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC’s) African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APDD) Program hosted a panel at the 68th annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), held from November 20-22, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. The ASA conference, themed “Crossing Boundaries and Recovering Intellectual Traditions,” invited participants to reflect on the politics of knowledge and structural inequalities in African studies. Entitled “Decolonizing the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Peacebuilding: Concepts, Theories, and Practices,” the Program-sponsored panel questioned dominant structures of power, historicized them, and presented avenues for resurgent African agency as a pathway towards sustainable …