Workshop: Governance and connections in Africa's contemporary conflicts

Africa has been seeing multiple violent conflicts and contestations of the legitimacy of national governments in recent years. These conflict zones range from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa and from Central Africa to the Great Lakes Region. State failure, bad governance, economic crises, social dissatisfaction, the legacy of colonial divisions or ethnic and religious tensions are all relevant aspects of these conflicts but cannot alone explain their complexity. Recent analysis has drawn attention to network(ed) wars in which local, regional and international dynamics meet.

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