Fears are growing of a return to war in Ethiopia's Tigray region, just four years after a devastating conflict ended in a fragile peace deal.

Transnational crowdsourcing from diasporas reshapes the organisational and discursive terrain of rebellion. This relatively new stream of resources has specific consequences for civil war dynamics ...

Renewed clashes in Tigray and tensions between Ethiopia and other Horn of Africa nations threaten a regional security crisis.

Ahead of the anniversary, we asked our readers to reflect.

The Conflict Between the TPLF and the Ethiopian Government Has the Potential to Escalate beyond the Country’s Borders

Abstract. How and why do governments develop profit-seeking migration industries around transit migration? Restrictive international migration policies, su

Focusing on a case study of offline and online violence in Somalia/Somaliland and the disputed city of Las Anod, this article presents an (auto)netnographic ana...

A new book tells the inside story of the second Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. Its author, Nicholas Enrich, worked at USAID for over a decade before he was pushed out of the agency in early 20...

Text messages obtained by <i>The Chronicle</i> detail a monthslong campaign to get Gregory Washington to dismantle its DEI programs and fall in line with Trump’s demands.

Advocates are fighting to save New Deal-era murals in a historic Washington, DC building from being sold or destroyed.

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 […]

Governor Abigail Spanberger is considering a bill that would expand collective bargaining for some government employees but deny it to others.

I am a political scientist. I have spent the last 30+ years studying security, including war and how to best manage violence. Today when I picked up the paper (or the NYT app on my phone, actually), I...

The government is picking favorites amid a split in the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.

Ideas matter. And it's high time key players in the Horn (politicians, academics, journalists, analysts, and military strategists) chose to escape the pro-war shackles of geography and history.

With the possibility of renewed fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region, reminders and recommendations for the world to take preventive action.

The risk of hostilities involving Ethiopia, its northernmost Tigray region and its neighbour Eritrea remains high three years after the last major war in the area. African states and outside powers sh...

Abstract. What strategies can be employed to conceptualize peace? In recent years, scholars have introduced an impressive array of “peace with adjectives”

Explorations in African leadership

The emergence of Amhara nationalism as a central political trend in Ethiopia can be dated to 2016. It soon gained considerable audience within the Amhara region and beyond. This article analyses a ...

H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-11 Anna Jarstad, Johanna Söderström, and Malin Åkebo, eds., Relational Peace Practices. Manchester University Press…

Changing dynamics in Tigray could erode the current balance of uncertainty.

Internal documents reviewed by The Post reveal, with rare candor, how domestic missions rooted in politics risk damaging Americans’ trust in the military.

Is aid at a turning point? Plus, the next phase of Brazil’s plan to finance forest preservation.

Gregory Washington and his university sit at the center of a national debate on diversity and hiring.

If the institution accepts the Office for Civil Rights’ findings, it will not just damage the college’s reputation, it will make all of higher education more vulnerable, says James Finkelstein.