Recent Developments in Peace and Security in the Horn of Africa

Redie Bereketeab, PhD, is an associate professor of sociology. Currently, he is working as senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute. He has widely published, books, book chapters, and articles in such journals as: African Studies, African Studies Review, African and Asian Studies, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, African Journal of International Affairs, and South African Journal of International Affairs. His recent books include Self-Determination and Secession in Africa: The Postcolonial State, National Liberation Movements as Government in Africa, Alternatives to Neoliberal Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Africa, and Historical Sociology of State Formation in the Horn of Africa: Genesis, Trajectories, Processes, Routes and Consequences. His research interests span the fields of political sociology, development sociology, and African studies, and include state building, nation building, identity, nationalism, conflict, peacebuilding, and regional integration and development.