This article reviews recent research on pastoral resource conflict in the context of security
crises across Sudano–Sahelian West and Central Africa. The goal is to improve …

Blockades are a long‐standing tool used by political groups of various kinds to interrupt or
redirect flows of materials, capital, and people. In this introduction to the Symposium,“On the …

In 2017, the UN raised the alarm on famines in North-east Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan
and Yemen. Starvation has been used as a weapon of war in Syria, and the Democratic …

Driven by the momentous political and economic changes of the past decade and by the
resurgence of popular resistance against globalization, the question of global supply chains …

Although logistics are fundamentally geographical and of critical importance to
contemporary society, it is only relatively recently that human geographers and cognate …

ABSTRACT A multitude of new research themes and objects, especially technological
innovations and knowledge practices, have come to populate international relations and …

Based on a review of the diverse practices of how armed groups tax, we highlight that a full
account of why armed groups tax needs to go beyond revenue motivations, to also engage …

Rebel governance assumes a symbiotic relationship between coercion and public goods
provision. However, in the rebel-held town of Ndélé, Central African Republic, we find that …

In this article I investigate colonial constructions of ethnicity and territory and their effects in
the post-independence period in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The core …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the challenges encountered by international
nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) operating in armed conflicts within the Democratic …