From 5th – 6th December 2016, ASSN Chair, Boubacar N’diaye and Executive Committee Member, Dr Niagale Bagayoko participated in the 2016 Dakar Forum in Senegal. The forum focused on African Peace and Security and Dr Bagayoko presented a paper on…
Shield Africa: 2017 Inagural Conference
On 23rd January, 2017, Dr Niagalé Bagayoko, member of the ASSN Executive Committee participated in the Shield Africa 2017 Inaugural conference on the theme “Africa: Towards an Integrated Approach to Protecting Our Development”. The one day conference was held in…
ASSN Launches ASA
The African Security Sector Network (ASSN), recently launched the African Societal Analysis/Analyse Sociétale Africaine (ASA) project as the latest addition to the ASSN’s programmes. It seeks to perpetuate the research program “Hybrid Security Governance in Africa” funded by the IDRC…
Dr Sandy Africa Gets Appointment With DCAF
The Vice Chair of the ASSN Executive Committee (ExCo) and Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Pretoria, Dr Sandy Africa has been appointed Assistant Director and Head of Division: Africa/Gender and Security at the Geneva Centre for…
Dr Jimam T Lar Receives 2016 APN Grant
ASSN Member and Lecturer at the Department of History and International Studies, University of Jos, Nigeria, Dr Jimam Timchang Lar, has recently been named among the 2016 grantees of the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council…
ASSN Chair Participates in UN SSR Mission to Burkina Faso
From May 29 to July 11, ASSN Chair, Prof Boubacar N’Diaye, took part in an SSR related UN mission to Burkina Faso. The objective of the mission was to clarify the Burkinabé authorities’ understanding and vision of SSR and assess…
ASSN EXCO Members CO-Author Article on Hybrid Security Governance
Three members of the ASSN Executive Committee (ExCo), Niagale Bagayoko, Eboe Hutchful and Robin Luckham have co-authored an article titled Hybrid Security Governance in Africa: rethinking the foundations of security, justice and legitimate public authority. The article has recently been…
Learning Lab on ‘Improving Security Sector Governance in Africa’
The African Security Sector Network (ASSN) and the Geneva Democratic Centre for the Control on Armed Forces (DCAF) with funding support fromthe Open Society Foundation (OSF) organised a workshop in Dakar(Sénégal) from 26 – 27 April 2016.The workshop was themed, “Improving…