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RIP Tjostolv Moland 20 Aug 2013 | 03:26 am
This morning, the family of Tjostolv Moland, a Norwegian man sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), released a statement in his memory explaining that he died in prison yest...
Birthday Kisses for the Dictator 20 Aug 2013 | 02:19 am
Today, the second installment of my series on using the library as a time machine. Alongside a volume on Coup d’Etat: Pourquoi Faire? (Coup d’Etat: Why do it?) that discussed the development advantage...
A Coup d'Etat: Why Do It? 16 Aug 2013 | 03:37 am
On my first visit to Bangui, in 2003, I was arrested. Just three months had passed since Bozize’s coup, and an atmosphere of uncertainty dominated the city. Ransacked buildings, their remaining skelet...
Michel Djotodia: Where He Comes From, Where He -- and CAR -- Might be Going 3 Apr 2013 | 12:13 am
I have a piece up at African Arguments reflecting on Michel Djotodia's biography and what it might mean for politics in the CAR in the years to come. It's tempting to see Djotodia's coup as history r...
President Michel Djotodia? 25 Mar 2013 | 06:23 am
When the Union des Forces Démocratiques pour le Rassemblement (UFDR) announced its presence by capturing CAR's northeasternmost town, Birao, at the end of October 2006, a few people starting working t...
Post-Gadaffi Repercussions in the Sahel 15 Mar 2013 | 11:46 pm
The report of the "Post-Gadaffi Repercussions in the Sahel" workshop I participated in at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Accra in June last year is available for download...
Missing Pieces 8 Mar 2013 | 01:19 am
I revisited the penis-snatching incident that happened during my fieldwork for a short piece in Pacific Standard magazine. There is always a risk of exoticizing when talking about these kinds of phen...
Making War, Not Peace 23 Jan 2013 | 02:32 am
I had an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune this weekend arguing that peacebuilding initiatives in the Central African Republic, and specifically disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration ...
Ivory Wars 20 Sep 2012 | 09:30 pm
I have an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune today arguing against militarized anti-poaching as a response to the increasing slaughter of African elephants. Among other things, the op-ed was i...
Raiding Sovereignty in Central African Borderlands 16 Sep 2012 | 05:08 am
My dissertation, titled somewhat awkwardly but also hopefully intriguingly Raiding Sovereignty in Central African Borderlands, is now available for public download. Before I provide the link, however,...
