Current news and events

No signs of a true transition in Chad a year after Idriss Déby’s death

Helga Dickow outlines the political situation in Chad one year after the death of the former president.

21. April 2022

ALMA Reviews Blog: Piecing up Peace in Kashmir: Feminist Perspectives on Education for Peace

Amya Agarwal has read a book chapter that introduces the potential of feminist peace education to bring positive, long-term changes in conflict situations.

11. April 2022

ALMA Reviews Blog: The new ‘diaspora trap’ framework: Explaining return migration from South Africa to Zimbabwe beyond the ‘failure-success’ framework

Are the existing theories on return migration too short-sighted and outdated? Khangelani Moyo has read an article that argues so.

22. March 2022

ALMA Reviews Blog: The geopolitics of COVID-19: US-China rivalry and the imminent Kindleberger trap

How has the competition for global leadership between China and the U.S. evolved? Charlotte Jung and Jan Völkel have reviewed an article on this.

15. February 2022

Plans for offshoring refugee protection undermine human dignity, African political interests, and international norms

Franzisca Zanker writes about renewed debates on offshoring the protection of refugees.

8. February 2022

Success: Yonatan Gez receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC)

The ABI associated researcher receives an ERC grant for his research on the impact of development projects on local communities in East Africa.

2. February 2022

ALMA Reviews Blog: Sumak Kawsay is not Buen Vivir

Fabricio Rodríguez has written a review on an article about the concept Sumak Kawsay, in which delimitation and appropriation of the concept are discussed.

17. January 2022

VAD protests against visa refusal for Cameroonian scholars by the German embassy

The three Cameroonian academics wanted to participate in a workshop on the restitution of colonial objects at the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich.

14. January 2022

ALMA Reviews Blog: (Un)Doing rights: Adivasi participation in governance discourses in an area of civil unrest in India

Anika Becher recommends a paper from Gunjan Wadhwa on Adivasi participation and demands for community rights in a rural-village context in India.

22. December 2021

ALMA Reviews Blog: Peacekeeping experiences as triggers of introspection in the Ghanaian military barracks

Andreas Mehler just read a relevant article for which Ghanaian soldiers were interviewed about their experiences during a peacekeeping mission.

16. November 2021