Our annual meeting will bring together more than 60 border scholars from all over the world. See you in Nairobi in September! aborne.net/2024-conferenc…

It’s time to renew your ABORNE Membership! All members - including those attending our annual meeting in Nairobi - are kindly asked to be up to date with the payment of their annual fees. Online payments can now be made via PayPal through this link: aborne.net/take-action

Niger’s Long Cycle of Poverty and Coups, by Bill Miles in Current History online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

Just Another Coup? What’s at Stake in Niger​. A discussion with ABORNE Chief William Miles, May 3rd, ASMEA mailchi.mp/asmeascholars/…

One of many AFRIGOS project research outputs. Thanks again to all contributors & project members for their invaluable insight & effort! Paul Nugent Jose-Maria Munoz Hugh Lamarque Elisa Gambino Tim Zajontz Isabella Ziad Hamoui Sergio Oliete Josa Bruce Byiers Abdoul Mohamadou Olivier J Walther et al.

The call for papers for the 2024 ABORNE conference organized with UNDP Africa Borderlands Centre 🌍 and International Peace Support Training Centre -Kenya is now closed. Thanks for submitting so many interesting abstracts! We look forward to seeing you in Nairobi in September

Abstracts are due TODAY

It’s time to renew your ABORNE membership! Online payments can now be made via PayPal through this link: aborne.net/take-action Thanks again for your continued support!

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🚨 Reminder: The ABORNE Annual Meeting call for papers is approaching fast! 📅 Don't miss your chance to contribute to discussions on Resilience & Social Cohesion in African Borderlands. Submit by April 12, 2024. Join us in Nairobi, 11-13 Sep 2024. #ABORNE2024

The deadline to submit an abstract for the 2024 ABORNE conference in Nairobi is April 12. Kindly note that the deadline will not be extended. We look forward to hearing from you!

The Association for Borderlands Studies Annual Conference in San Antonio has started. Don't miss Steve Radil's talk on borders and conflict in West Africa at 2:45pm

We've mapped Africa's most violent borders using Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project data. The border between Ethiopia and Somalia has the highest percentage of nearby violent events from 1997-2023

REMINDER - The deadline to submit an abstract to our annual meeting is fast approaching: 12 April! We look forward to seeing you all in Nairobi in September.

📢 Call for Papers!

Join us for the ABORNE Annual Meeting in partnership with International Peace Support Training Centre -Kenya in Nairobi, 11-13 Sep 2024.

Submit by 12 April 2024! 🌍✉️ [email protected] #ABORNE2024 #Research #AfricanBorderlands

The diffusion of violence from the Sahel to the Gulf of Guinea follows national boundaries according to this new SWAC OECD paper using Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project data. Border regions represented more than half of conflict regions in 2023 shorturl.at/bekmV

Call for Papers: ABORNE Annual Meeting in partnership with UNDP Africa Borderlands Centre 🌍 and International Peace Support Training Centre -Kenya, Nairobi, 11-13 September 2024. Submission deadline: 12 April 2024, aborne.net/2024-conferenc…

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Borders in #Africa were not decided in Berlin & are not random! Causes? Geography, precol states & negotiations btw Europeans & Africans. Time to update high school textbooks! Jack Paine Xiaoyan Qiu & I American Political Science Review 🙏🥳 doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

How can we make a better business case for Africa’s borderland regions?UNDP Africa Borderlands Centre 🌍 can show us how: Read our new toolkit to develop SDG Investor Maps in 🌍borderlands & guide investors to direct capital to where it can make the most difference tinyurl.com/4dzper6e