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- Nannyonga-Tamusuza, S. A., et al. (2025). Contemporary responses in Africa to the aftermath of death: developments and decolonising challenges. Mortality.
- Boone, C., Crespin-Boucaud, J., and Kim, E. K. (2025). 'Sectoral Interests and Regional Bloc Voting in African Countries. Studies in Comparative International Development.
- Akkelo, G. (2025). 'Examining the connection between position-based power and social status across 70 cultures. British Journal of Social Psychology.
- Pendle, N. and Kirk, T. (2025). Special section on 'Humanitarian Protection and the Safety of Strangers'. Global Policy.
- Mylan, S. (2025). Protection and Containment: Surviving COVID-19 in Palabek Refugee Settlement, Northern Uganda. Global Policy.
2024
- Mohamed, S; Abbashar, A; Abushama, H. (2024) Women's career motivation: social barriers and enablers in Sudan.Frontiers in Psychology.
- Wuerth, M; Storer, E; Simpson, N; Sarafian, I; Duale, S. (2024) Securitized trust: on the multiple guises of the UK policy agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic. Critical Policy Studies.
- Atingo, J., Allen, T., and Macdonald, A. (2024). Witnessing Ongwen: A Betrayal of Expectations?. Journal of International Criminal Justice.
- Onyango, G. (2024). Do politicians deliberately sabotage ICT adoption in African elections?. The Guardian.
- Onyango, G. (2024). Social Processes of Public Sector Collaborations in Kenya: Unpacking Challenges of Realising Joint Actions in Public Administration. Journal of the Knowledge Economy.
- Ondiek, J. O., & Onyango, G. (2024). Chapter 10: Technological policy tools and implementation of social protection policies in Africa: emerging inequalities in social safety net programmes for older persons in Kenya. Chapter in: Research Handbook on Inequalities in Later Life (ed. Catherine Early and Philip Taylor). Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Ngutuku, E., & Okwany, A. (2024). Beyond Colonial Politics of Identity: Being and Becoming Female Youth in Colonial Kenya. Genealogy.
- Laing, T., & Weschler, S. (2024). Rural Radicalism and the Tactic of Third-Party Leverage: How Acholi Peasants Drew a UN Agency into their Struggle against Land-Grabbing by the Ugandan State. African Studies Review.
- Tapscott, R., & Unwin, E. (2024). The Origins and Legacies of Unpredictability in Rebel-Incumbent Rule. Civil Wars.
- Abonga, F., et al. (2024). Collaborative Autoethnography and Reclaiming an African Episteme: Investigating "Customary" Ownership of Natural Resources. African Studies Review.
- Kirk, T., Pendle, N., & Vasilyeva (2024). Humanitarian Protection Activities and the Safety of Strangers in the DRC, Syria and South Sudan and its Borderlands. Global Policy.
- Mylan, S. (2024). Suspicious business: COVID-19 vaccination in Palabek refugee settlement, northern Uganda. Social Science & Medicine.
- Kirk, T., Pendle, N., & Diing, A. (2024). Community Self-Protection, Public Authority and the Safety of Strangers in Bor and Ler, South Sudan. Global Policy.
- Laing, N., Mylan, S., & Parker, M. (2024). Does epidemiological evidence support the success story of Uganda's response to COVID-19?. Journal of Biosocial Science.
- Onyango, G. (2024). DHR-PA - Democracy and human rights in public administration in Africa. Politics & Policy.
- Onyango, G. (2024). How Managers Respond to Fraud, Waste and Mismanagement: Ethics Management Survey in Uganda and Kenya. Public Integrity.
- Kirk, T., & Pendle, N. (2024). Safety of Strangers Special Issue (forthcoming). Global Policy.
- Kirk, T., & Pendle, N. (2024). Introduction: Safety of Strangers Special Issue. Global Policy.
- Sarafian, I. (2024). Roma Ethnographies of Grief in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Chapter in: Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research - Lessons from a time of crisis. Bristol University Press.
- Macdonald, A. (2024). Uganda’s battle for the youth vote – how Museveni keeps Bobi Wine’s reach in check. The Conversation.
- Sarafian, I. (2024). Gendered Reproductions of Epistemic Violence and Embodied Silence. Chapter in: Gender and Violence in Romani and Traveller Lives: Methods, Ethics and Dilemmas. Routledge.
- Gay Blasco, P., Sarafian, I., & Roman, R. (2024). Gender and Violence in Romani and Traveller Lives: Methods, Ethics and Dilemmas. Routledge.
- Onyango, G. (2024). Hotbed of corruption: Kenya's elite have captured the state - unrest is inevitable. The Conversation.
- Kirk, T., & Pinnington, R. (2024). Development practice, power and public authority. Global Policy.
- Kirk, T., & Pinnington, R. (2024). Introduction: Development Practice, Power, and Public Authorities Special Issue. Global Policy.
- Kirk, T., & Pinnington, R. (2024). Special Issue - Development Practice, Power and Public Authority. Global Policy.
- Kirk, T., Pendle, N., & Vasilyeva, A. (2024). Humanitarian protection activities and the safety of strangers in the DRC, Syria and South Sudan. Global Policy.
- Kirk, T., Pendle, N., & Diing, A. (2024). Community self-protection, public authority and the safety of strangers in Bor and Ler, South Sudan. Global Policy.
- Joshi, A., et al. (2024). Local governance networks as public authority: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan. Global Policy.
- Ngutuku, E. (2024). Re-imagining and Repositioning the Lived Experience of Children seen as Outsiders in Kenya. Childhood.
- Hopwood, J., et al. (2024). Collaborative Autoethnography and Reclaiming an African Episteme: Investigating "Customary" Ownership of Natural Resources. African Studies Review.
- Laing, N., Mylan, S., & Parker, M. (2024). Does epidemiological evidence support the success story of Uganda's response to COVID-19?. Journal of Biosocial Science.
- Onyango, G. (2024). DHR-PA - Democracy and human rights in public administration in Africa. Politics & Policy.
- Onyango, G. (2024). How Managers Respond to Fraud, Waste and Mismanagement: Ethics Management Survey in Uganda and Kenya. Public Integrity.
- Sarafian, I. (2024). Roma Ethnographies of Grief in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Chapter in: Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research - Lessons from a time of crisis. Bristol University Press.
- Macdonald, A. (2024). Uganda’s battle for the youth vote – how Museveni keeps Bobi Wine’s reach in check. The Conversation.
- Akampurira, E., & Marijnen, E. (2024). The politics of mourning in conservation conflicts: The (un)grievability of life and less-than-human geographies. Political Geography.
- Vlassenroot, K., & Muzalia Kihangu, G. (2024). Perspectives on North-South collaborative conflict research. A conversation between two research partners. Rewriting Peace and Conflict.
- Ed, Tom Kirk and Rose Pinnington. Special Issue - Development Practice, Power and Public Authority (2024). Global Policy.
2023
- Okwany, A. and Ngutuku, E. (2023). Chapter 11: Sankofa: appreciating the past in planning the future of early childhood education, care and development in Africa. UNESCO.
- Ngutuku, E. (2023). Re-imagining and repositioning the lived experience of children seen as outsiders in Kenya. Childhood Journal.
- Onyango, G. (2023). The Post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery, Government Performance and Lived Poverty Conditions in Kenya. Public Organization Review.
- Onyango, G. (2023). How Mafia Like Bureaucratic Cartels or Thieves in Suits Run Corruption Inside the Bureaucracy, or How Government Officials Swindle Citizens in Kenya! Deviant Behavior.
- Onyango, G., et al. (2023). Roundtable: How do We Connect Public Administration and Human Rights? Perspectives on Public Management and Governance.
- Onyango, G., and Ondiek O. J. (2023). Digitalising analogue policy targets! ‘Digital capabilities’ of older persons and policy digitalisation of social safety net programs in a developing country context. Journal of Technology in Human Services.
- Mohamed, S., Abbashar, A., and Abushama, H. (2023). Women’s career motivation: social barriers and enablers in Sudan. Frontiers in Psychology.
- McCrone, F. (2023). ‘I have opened the land for you’: pastoralist politics and election-related violence in Kenya’s arid north. Journal of Eastern African Studies.
- Rodriguez, A. (2023). Endurance lost and found: unwanted return and the suspension of time. Geopolitics.
- Allen, T. (2023). Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History.
- Storer, E., and Torre, C. (2023). ‘Vaccine populism’ and migrant assistance: On the contingency of mutual aid in Italy's Alpine region. Global Policy.
- Ferugson, W. D. (2023). Power and public authority. Global Policy.
- Blejer, M. I. and Mohácsi, P. N. (2023). The Inflation Crisis Is Not Over. Project Syndicate.
- Anderson, M. (2023). From Peace Talks to Pandemics: The Continuum of Feminist Peace Activism. Global Studies Quarterly.
- Luke, D., Macleod, J., Ogunkola, O. (2023). White Paper on sustainable industrialisation in Africa sets out a new approach to industrial policymaking.
- Mohácsi, P.N. (2023). The Digital Economy’s New Monetary Imperative. Project Syndicate.
- Aggad, F., and Luke, D. (2023). Implications for African countries of a carbon border adjustment mechanism in the EU.
- Sarafian, I., (2023). The Entanglements of Trust and Distrust: Roma Reproduction in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
- Torre, C., and Storer, E. (2023). COVID-19 vaccines, mobility, and pandemic bureaucracies: Undocumented migrants' perspectives from Italy's Alpine border. Journal of Migration and Health.
- Storer, E., and Anguyo, I. (2023). "These people are lying to us": Mutating Vaccine Fears and Colonial Histories in Arua, North-West Uganda. Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
- Dieterle, C. (2023). Variations of Customary Tenure, Chiefly Power and Global Norms for Responsible Land Investments in Sierra Leone. African Affairs.
- Pailey, N. R., and Bloh, O.(2023).Is Liberia heading towars an electoral crisis. African Arguments. .
- Manby, B. (2023). Post-colonial citizenship and decolonisation as a turning point: continuities and discontinuities in African states.
- McKay, A., Ogunkola, O., and Semboja, H. (2023). Rethinking regional integration in Africa for inclusive and sustainable development: INtroduction to the special issue. The World Economy Journal.
- Kirk, T. (2023). Intermediaries, isomorphic activism and programming for social accountability in Pakistan. Global Policy.
- Macdonald, A., Owor, A., and Tapscott, R. (2023). Explaining youth political mobilization and its absence: the case of Bobi Wine and Uganda’s 2021 election. Journal of Eastern African Studies.
- Kirk, T., Green, D., Stys, P., and Mosquera, T. (2023). Adaptive programming and going with the grain: IMAGINE's new water governance model in Goma, DRC. Development Policy Review.
- Janguan, T., Kirk, T. (2023) Hiding in plain sight: IDP's protection strategies after closing Juba's protection of civilian sites. Global Policy.
- Ngutuku, E., Emeke, O., Sibert, A. (2023). Information Communications Technology in Higher Education in Africa: Challenges from the COVID-19 Pandemic. United Nations policy briefing report.
- Storer, E., Torre, C. (2023) ‘All in good faith?’ An ethno-historical analysis of local faith actors’ involvement in the delivery of mental health interventions in northern Uganda. Transcultural Psychiatry.
- Storer, E., Torre, C. (2023). ‘Vaccine populism’ and migrant assistance: On the contingency of mutual aid in Italy's Alpine region.Global Policy.
- Tapscott, R. (2023). Vigilantes and the State: Understanding Violence through a Security Assemblages Approach. Perspectives on Politics.
- Vlavonou, G. (2023). Negotiating Positionality as a Student and Researcher in Africa: Understanding How Seniority and Race Mediate Elite Interviews in African Social. International Studies Review.
2022
- Abonga, F., Brown, C. (2022). Restoration and Renewal Through Sport: Gendered Experiences of Resilience for War-Affected Youth in Northern Uganda.Civil Wars.
- Brett, E.A., (2022). Rebuilding Public Authority in Uganda Dualist Theory, Hybrid Social Orders and Democratic Statehood. World Development. 159.
- Di Matteo, F. (2022). Imagining the Kenyan Commons: The Stakes of State Control Over Land in the Formulation of the Community Land Act (2011-2016). The Journal of Development Studies.
- Hopwood, J., O'Byrne, R. (2022). Conceptual Resilience in the Language and Lives of Resilient People: Cases from Northern Uganda. Civil Wars.
- Hopwood, J. (2022). An inherited animus to communal land: The mechanisms of coloniality in land reform agendas in Acholiland, Northern Uganda. Critical African Studies.
- Macdonald, A., CooperKnock, S., Hopwood, J. (2022). "Maybe we should take the legal ways": Citizen engagement with lower state courts in post-war northern Uganda.Law and Society Review.
- Marijnen, E. (2022). Eco-war tourism: Affective geographies, colonial durabilities and the militarization of conservation. Security Dialogue.
- O'Byrne, R. (2022). Resistant Resilience: Agency and Resilience Among Refugees Resisting Humanitarian Corruption in Uganda. Civil Wars.
- Onyango, G. (2022). The art of bribery! Analysis of police corruption at traffic checkpoints and roadblocks in Kenya.International Review of Sociology.
- Onyango, G., Ondiek, JO. (2022). Open innovation during the COVID-19 pandemic policy responses in South Africa and Kenya. Politics & Policy.
- Onyango, G. (2022). Bureaucratic Corruption and Maladministration in Kenya: A Bureaucratic Analysis. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity.
- Parker, M., Baluku, M., Ozunga, BE., Okello, B., Kermundu, P., Akello, G., MacGregor, H., Leach, M., Allen, T. (2022). Epidemics and the Military: Responding to COVID-19 in Uganda. Social Science and Medicine.
- Kelecha, M. (2022). A critique of building a developmental state in the EPRDF's Ethiopia. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement.
- Elder, C. (2022). Logistics Contracts and the Political Economy of State Failure: Evidence from Somalia. African Affairs, 121 (484). 395-417.
- Ngutuku, E. (2022). Education as future breakfast: children’s aspirations within the context of poverty in Siaya Kenya. Ethnography and Education,17 (3). 224-40.
- Geiger, M., Hockenhull, J., Buller, H., Engida, Gebre.T, Jemal Kedir, M., Goshu, L., Getachew, M., Banerjee, A., Burden, F.A. & Whay, H. R. (2022). Being with donkeys: insights into the valuing and wellbeing of donkeys in central Ethiopia. Society and Animals.
- Storer, L., Anguyo, I. & Odda, A. (2022). One man’s meat is another man’s poison: Marungi and realities of resilience in North West Uganda. Civil Wars.
- Storer, L., Dawson, K. & Fergus, C. (2022). Covid-19 riskscapes: viral risk perceptions in the African Great Lakes. Medical Anthropology, 41 (4). 387 - 403.
- Fergus, C.A., Ozunga, B., Okumu, N., Parker, M., Kamurari, S. & Allen, T. (2022). Shifting the dynamics: implementation of locally driven, mixed-methods modelling to inform schistosomiasis control and elimination activities. BMJ Global Health, 7 (2).
- Richards, Paul. (2022). The moral economy of isolates: Escape agriculture and warzone public authority. Journal of Peasant Studies.
- Sarafian, I. (2022). Key Considerations: Tackling Structural Discrimination and COVID-19 Vaccine Barriers for Roma Communities in Italy. Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform. Sarafian, I. (2022). Ethnic minorities, social media, and attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination.The Lancet.
- Storer, E., Sarafian, I., Torre, C., Vallerani, S., Franchi, E. (2022). COVID-19 vaccination campaigns and the production of mistrust among Roma and migrant populations in Italy.BMJ Global
2021
- Blackmore, K. & Owenje, B. (2021). Repairing Representational Wounds: Artistic and Curatorial Approaches to Transition After War. Critical Arts, 35:4.
- Ponsiano, B., Angolere, B., Nangiro, S., Sagal, I. & Joyce Emai (2021). Warriors to Mere Chicken Men, and Other Troubles: An Ordinary Language Survey of Notions of Resilience in Ngakarimojong. Civil Wars.
- Barnett, T., Moyen N., et al. (2021), Avian infuenza transmission risk along live poultry trading networks in Bangladesh, Nature, 11:19962.
- Fergus, C.A., Storer, E., Arinaitwe, M., Kamurari, S., & Adriko M. (2021), COVID-19 information dissemination in Uganda: Perspectives from sub-national health workers. BMC Health Services Research. 21:1061.
- Geiger, M., Hockenhull, J., Buller, H., Jemal Kedir, M., Tefera Engida, G., Getachew, M., Burden, F.A. & Whay, H.R. (2021), Comparison of the socio-economic value and welfare of working donkeys in rural and urban Ethiopia. Animal Welfare. Animal Welfare, 30: 269-277.
- Ngwenya, N., Barnett, T., Groenewald, C., & Seeley, J. (2021), Complex trauma and its relation to hope and hopelessness among young people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies.
- Barnett, T., & Fournié, G. (2021), Zoonoses and wet markets: beyond technical interventions, Lancet Planetary Health.
- Allen, T., Atingo, J. & Parker, M. (2021). Rejection and Resilience: Returning from the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda. Civil Wars.
- Dieterle, C. (2021). Global Governance Meets Local Land Tenure: International Codes of Conduct for Responsible Land Investments in Uganda. Journal of Development Studies.
- Macdonald, A. & Porter, H. (2021). The Politics of Return: Understanding Trajectories of Displacement and the Complex Dynamics of ‘Return’ in Central and East Africa. Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4.
- Blackmore, K. (2021). Humanitarian Remains: Erasure and the Everyday of Camp Life in Northern Uganda. Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4.
- Caryannis, T. & Pangburn, A. (2021). Home Is Where the Heart Is: Identity, Return and the Toleka Bicycle Taxi Union in Congo’s Equateur. Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4.
- O'Bryne, R. & Ogeno, C. (2021). Pragmatic Mobilities and Uncertain Lives: Agency and the Everyday Mobility of South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda. Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4.
- Pendle, N. & Akoi, A.D. (2021). ‘I Kept My Gun’: Displacement’s Impact on Reshaping Social Distinction During Return. Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4.
- Richards, P. (2021). Public authority and its demons: the Sherbro leopard murders in Sierra Leone. Africa, (91:2).
- Stys, P., Muhindoa, S., N’simirea, S., Tchumisia, I., Muzuria, P., Balume, B. & Koskinen, J. (2021). Trust, quality, and the network collection experience: A tale of two studies on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Social Networks, 68.
2020
- Trapido, J. & Mbu-Mputu, N. (2020). Les Combattants—Ideologies of Exile, Return and Nationalism in the DRC. Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4.
- Kerali, R. & Macdonald, A. (2020). Being Normal: Stigmatization of Lord’s Resistance Army Returnees as ‘Moral Experience’ in Post-war Northern Uganda. Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4.
- Porter, H. (2020). Moving Toward ‘Home’: Love and Relationships through War and Displacement. Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4.
- Vlassenroot, K., Mudinga, E. & Musamba, J. (2020). Navigating Social Spaces: Armed Mobilization and Circular Return in Eastern DR Congo. Journal of Refugee Studies, 33:4.
- Brett, E.A. (2020). The development and challenges of aid relationships: where is international aid heading?
- Waal, A., Nouwen, S. (2020). Indeterminacy and self-determination in the Horn of Africa. JISC
- Bencherif, A., Vlavonou, G. (2020). Reflexive tension: an auto-ethnographic journey through the discipline of International Relations in Western academic training. African Identities
- Elder, C. (2020). Tenderpreneurs and the politics of (sub)contracting in Somalia: rethinking the 'political marketplace', violent conflict and impossible debt. African Affairs
- Elder, C. (2020). Technocratic assistance programmes, diaspora return to politics and the remaking of the state and ‘public authority’ in Somalia's federal system. Public Administration and Development
- Elder, C., et al. (2020). The business of state fragility: rethinking co-dependence, public authority, and power in the Somali federal state. GOVSEA (Governing Economic Hubs and Flows in Somalia's East Africa)
- Richards, P. Public authority and its demons: the Sherbro Leopard murders in Sierra Leone.
- Bencherif, A., Vlavonou, G. (2020). Reflexive tension: an auto-ethnographic journey through the discipline of International Relations in Western academic training. African Identities
- Stys, P., et al. (2020). Social network data collection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A tale of two studies. Social Networks Journal
- Carayannis, T., and Weiss, T.G. (2020). The "Third" UN: Imagining Post-COVID-19 Multilateralism. Global Policy
- Carayannis, T. (2017). Webs of War in the Congo: The Politics of Hybrid Wars, Conflict Networks, and Multilateral Responses 1996-2003. The Graduate Center
- Allen, T., Atingo, J., Atim, D., Ocitti, J., Brown, C., Torre, C., Fergus, C., Parker, M. (2020) What Happened to Children Who Returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda? Journal of Refugee Studies
- Cooper-Knock, SJ., Macdonald, A. (2020). A Summons to the Magistrates’ Courts in South Africa and Uganda. African Affairs
- Tapscott, R. (2020). Militarized masculinity and the paradox of restraint: mechanisms of social control under modern authoritarianism. International Affairs
- Amoah, M. (2020). Sleight is Right: Cyber Control as a New Battleground for African Elections. African Affairs, 1-22.
- Blackmore, K., Luthra, K., & Shieh, I. (2020) Politics of Return Impact report on engagement workshops and exhibitions, LSE
- Parker, M., MacGregor, H. & Akello, G. (2020). COVID-19, Public Authority and Enforcement. Medical Anthropology.
- Schubert, M. (2020). Transforming community-based armed groups into commuity security providers. Resolve network.
- Schubert, M. (2020). Measuring the success of approaches to community-based armed groups. Resolve network.
- Brown, C. (2020). Post-conflict reintegration: the long-term effects of abduction and displacement on the Acholi population of northern Uganda. London School of Economics. Mayling Birney Prize for Best Overall Performance.
- Pendle, N. (2020). Politics, prophets and armed mobilizations: competition and continuity over registers of authority in South Sudan’s conflicts. Journal of Eastern African Studies, (14:1) 43-62.
- Moro, L., Pendle, N., Robinson, A., and Tanner, L. (2020) Localising humanitarian aid during armed conflict: learning from the histories and creativity of South Sudanese NGOs, LSE.
- Green, D., & Kirk, T., eds. (2020), 'Observing Covid-19 in Africa through a public authorities lens', Working Paper, Centre for Public Authority and Interantional Development.
- Lazzolino, G. (2020), Power geometries of encampment. The reproduction of domination and marginality among Somali refugees in Kakuma, Geoforum.
- Torre, C. (2020) Self-help or silenced voices? An ethnographically informed warning, The Lancet Global Health.
- Carayannis, T., & Pangburn, A. (2020) Home Is Where the Heart Is: Identity, Return and the Toleka Bicycle Taxi Union in Congo’s Equateur, Journal of Refugee Studies
- Allen, T., Atingo, J., Atim, D., Ocitti, J., Brown, C., Torre, C., Fergus, C., Parker, M. (2020) What Happened to Children Who Returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda? Journal of Refugee Studies
- Macdonald, A. & Kerali, R. (2020), Being Normal: Stigmatization of Lord’s Resistance Army Returnees as ‘Moral Experience’ in Post-war Northern Uganda, Journal of Refugee Studies
2019
- Honwana, A. (2019), 'COVID-19 in Africa: Youth at the Fore', Kujenga Amani, Social Sciences Research Council.
- 'Resilience and humanitarianism in the face of recurrent crisis and fragility: a resilience approach to humanitarian development response', Working Paper (1), Deconstructing Notions of Resilience, LSE, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa.
- Abonga, F., Kerali, R., Porter, R. & Tapscott, R. (2019) Naked Bodies and Collective Action: Repertoires of Protest in Uganda’s Militarised, Authoritarian Regime, Civil Wars
- Girling Frank Knowles (2019), The Acholi of Uganda
- Macdonald, A. (2019) 'Somehow This Whole Process Became so Artificial': Exploring the Transitional Justice Implementation Gap in Uganda, International Journal of Transitional Justice
- Torre, C. (2019) Psychosocial Support (PSS) in War-affected Countries: A Literature Review - Costanza Torre, Politics of Return Working Papers
- Marijnen, E., Verweijen, J., et al., (2019). Why we must question the militarisation of conservation. Biological Conservation, (232), 66-73.
- Stys, P., Verwijen, J., Mazuri, P., Muhindo, S., Vogel, C., Koskinen & J. (2019). Brokering between (not so) overt and (not so) covert networks in conflict zones. Global Crime.
- Marijnen, E. & Schouten, P. (2019). Electrifying the green peace? Electrification, conservation and conflict in Eastern Congo. Conflict, Security & Development. (19:1) 15-34.
- Mylan, S., Torre, C., Parker, M. & Allen, T. (2019). Mental health in conflict settings. The Lancet. (394:10216) 2237.
- Pangburn, A. (2019). Assessing the Effectiveness of the United Nations Mission in the DRC Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network
- Carayannis, T., Weiss, H. (2019). Congo Kicks the Can Down the Road. Foreign Affairs
- Porter, H. (2019). Love and the Pursuit of Home After War. Anthropology News
- Lipton, J. (2019). Taking life off hold: Pregnancy and family formation during the ebola crisis in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Pregnant in the time of Ebola: women and their children 2013-2015. Springer Nature
- Vlavonou, G., (2019). The APSA and (Complex) International Security Regime Theory: A Critique. African Security
2018
- Brett, T. (2018), 'Public Authority and Political Markets in Conflicted States Social Conflict, Institutional Hybridity and Developmental Transitions', LSE.
- Allen, T. (2018) Lawino's People: The Acholi of Uganda
- Macdonald, A., and Hamandishe G., (2018), Transitional Justice and Ordinary Justice in Postconflict Acholiland, Pursuing Justice in Africa: Competing Imaginaries and Contested Practices, Ohio University Press
- Sharif, S. (2018) A Critical Review of Evidence from Ex-Combatant Reintegration Programs
- Mathys, G., & Buscher, K. (2018) Urbanizing Kitchanga: spatial trajectories of the politics of refuge in North Kivu, Eastern Congo, Journal of East African Studies
- Carayannis, T. (2018) The Changing Landscape of Armed Groups: Doing DDR, New Contexts
- Carayannis, T. (2018) DDR and Return in the DRC - A Foolish Investment or Necessary Risk?
- Carayannis, T. (2018) Prevention: The Challenge of Theory and Practice
- Hilhorst, D. (2018) Gender, sexuality, and violence in humanitarian crises, Disasters
- Porter, H. (2018), Pursuing Justics in Africa
- Hopwood, J. (2018) Resilient patriarchy: public authority and women's (in)security in Karamoja, Uganda, Disasters
- Macdonald, A. (2018) Humanitarianism: A Dictionary of Concepts
- Macdonald, A. (2018) Pursuing Justice in Africa: Competing Imaginaries and Contested Practices
- Mathys, G. (2018) Urbanizing Kitchanga: spatial trajectories of the politics of refuge in North Kivu, Eastern Congo, Journal of Eastern African Studies
- Pangburn, A. (2018) Cohabitation and the Prospects for a Central African Return: The Case of Inke (DRC)
- Porter, H. (2018) Rape Without Bodies? Reimagining the Phenomenon We Call "Rape" in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society
- Tegenbos, J., & Vlassenroot, K. (2018) Going home? A systematic review of the literature on displacement, return and cycles of violence, Politics of Return Working Papers
- Brett, E.A. (2018). Public Authority and Political Markets in Conflicted States Social Conflict, Institutional Hybridity and Developmental Transitions. CPAID, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa.
- Hopwood, J. (2018). Resilient patriarchy: public authority and women's (in)security in Karamoja, Uganda. Disasters.
- Marijnen, E., Verweijen, J. (2018). Pluralising Political Forests: Unpacking 'the State' by Tracing Virunga's Charcoal Chain. Antipode. December.
- Beresford, A., Berry, M., & Mann, L. (2018). Liberation movements and stalled democratic transitions: reproducing power in Rwanda and South Africa through productive liminality. Democratization, 1-20.
- Kapidžić, D. (2018). Public authority beyond hybrid governance: creating throughput legitimacy in Northern Uganda. Peacebuilding, 6(2), 127-143. (Full manuscript)
- Marijnen, E. (2018). Public Authority and Conservation in Areas of Armed Conflict: Virunga National Park as a ‘State within a State’ in Eastern Congo. Development and Change, 49(3): 790-814.
- Pendle, N. (2018). ‘The dead are just to drink from’: recycling ideas of revenge among the western Dinka, South Sudan. Africa, 88(1) 99-121
- Carayannis, T. (2018). Why comrades go to war: liberation politics and the outbreak of Africa's deadliest conflict.International Affairs
- O'Byrne R., Ogeno, C. (2018). The Illegal Economy of Refugee Registration: Insights into the Ugandan Refugee Scandal Rights in Exile: The International Refugee. Rights Initiative's Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter
2017
- Porter, H. Victor, L. (2017). Dirty things: spiritual pollution and life after the Lord’s Resistance Army. Journal of Eastern African Studies
- Carayannis, T. (2017). Lessons from African Union–United Nations cooperation in peace operations in the Central African Republic. African Security Review
- Carayannis, T. (2017) Déplacement et droit à la justice : communautés centrafricaines déplacées en RDC, Cahier du CERPRU
- Carayannis, T. (2017) Webs of War in the Congo: The Politics of Hybrid Wars, Conflict Networks, and Multilateral Responses, 1996-2003
- Carayannis, T. (2017) Le conflit de l'autorité coutumière au Nord Ubangi in Omasombo, La République démocratique du Congo à l'épreuve de la décentralisation, Cahiers Africains.
- Carayannis, T. (2017) Congo's Inescapable State: The Trouble With the Local, Foreign Affairs
- Carayannis, T. (2017) Justice pour les personnes déplacées en RDC, Journal du ISDR - Bukavu, RDC
- Jacobs, C. (2017) Justice pour les personnes déplacées en RDC : Introduction, Cahier du CERPRU
- Weiss, T. (2017) Windows of opportunity for UN reform: historical insights for the next Secretary-General, International Affairs
2016
- Carayannis, T. (2016) Making Justice Work: The Bemba Case and the ICC's Future
- Carayannis, T. (2016) Configurations of Authority in Kongo Central Province: Governance, Access to Justice and Security in the Territory of Muanda
- Carayannis, T. (2016) "Yes, the Central African Republic is A Real Country. But It's a Very Different Kind of Country,"
- Macdonald, A. (2016) The Trial of Thomas Kwoyelo: Opportunity of Spectre? Reflections from the Ground on the First LRA Prosecution in Africa
- Luke, D. (ed.). (2025). How Africa Eats. LSE Press.
- Ngutuku, E. (2025). Children's Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya. Routledge.
- Onyango, G. and Karuri-Sebina, G. (ed.). (2024). Digitalisation and Public Policy in Africa: GovTech and CivicTech Innovations. Springer Nature.
- Luke, D. (ed.). (2023). How Africa Trades LSE Press.
- Amoah, M. (2022). Public Policy and Election Administration in Africa: A Controlling or Innovative Environment within Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa (Routledge).
- Amoah, M. (2021). Reconstructing the Nation in Africa, The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana (I.B, Tauris).
- Porter, H. (2019). After Rape: Violence, Justice, and Social Harmony in Uganda (Cambridge University Press).
- Amoah, M. (2019). The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa (I.B, Tauris).
- Brown, C., and Torre, C. (2024). Key Considerations: Food assistance prioritisation in refugee settlements in Uganda and its impacts
- Besada, H. (2024). Leveraging Global South Collaboration and Partnership Models to Drive Digital Transformation
- Elmer, A., & Chris, A. (2023). Advancing Health Equity in Africa The Role of Intersectional Collaboration.
- Luke, D., Bashi, J. & MacLeod, J. (2022). UK Parliamentary Committee policy submission: trade policy with African countries.
- Akello, G., & Green, D. (2020) Preparedness, heightened response and systems strengthening for Ebola in Uganda, LSE
- research project
- Children from the LRA and services for formerly abducted persons
Read the document here. - Birth Registration for children born in LRA captivity in Northern Uganda
Read the document here. - Vernacularizing psychiatric discourse in post-conflict northern Uganda
Read the document here. - The Biometrically Verified Food Distribution (BVFD) Challenge
Read the document here. - Trauma-focussed mental health interventions
Read the document here. - NGOs and justice mechanisms in post-war contexts
Read the document here. - The ‘self-help’ group - structures and deeper understandings
Read the document here. - The healing powers of sport for youths in post-conflict Northern Uganda
Read the document here. - A roadmap towards the collective healing of child soldiers and "rebel wives"
Read the document here. - How to ensure effective uptake of family planning strategies in Northern Uganda
Read the document here. - Exploring the Karamojong language for clues about climate related risks
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- Allen, T. & Thomas, A. (2021). Poverty and Development in the 21st Century (third ed.). Oxford University Press.
- Tapscott, R. (2021). Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda. Oxford University Press.
- Carayannis, T. & Weiss, T. G. (2021). The "Third" United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think. Oxford University Press.
- Porter, H. (2019). After Rape: Violence, Justice, and Social Harmony in Uganda. Cambridge University Press.
- Allen, T., et al. (2019). Lawino's People The Acholi of Uganda. Lit Verlag.
- Amoah, M. (2019). The New pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation state in Africa. Bloomsbury.
- Allen, T., Macdonald, A. & Radice, H. (eds) (2018). Humanitarianism: A Dictionary of Concepts. Routledge.
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Additional blogs
- 'Au Congo-Kinshasa, l’héritage belge des « territoires ethniques » / The Belgian heritage of "ethnic territories" in Congo-Kinshasa.' Kaspar Hoffman (2022). Afrique XXI.