This year in the Great Lakes
This blog post was written by Jason Stearns and Yolande Bouka, the Co-Directors of Studies for the Rift Valley Institute’s Great Lakes Field Course, which will be taking place in Entebbe, Uganda from 11–17 June 2016. Jason and Yolande will be joined by a team of regional and international specialists to explore the contemporary complexities […]
This year in Sudan (Part 1)
This blog post was written by Douglas Johnson and Guma Kunda Komey, the Co-Directors of Studies for the Rift Valley Institute’s Sudan and South Sudan Course, which will be taking place in Entebbe, Uganda from 25 June – 1 July 2016. This year’s course will look back into the history of both countries in order to look […]
This year in the Horn of Africa
This blog post was written by Terrence Lyons and Laura Hammond, the Co-Directors of Studies for the Rift Valley Institute’s Horn of Africa Field Course, which will be taking place in Entebbe, Uganda from 9–15 July 2016. Terrence and Laura will be joined by a team of regional and international specialists to explore the contemporary […]
This year in South Sudan (Part 2)
This blog post was written by Douglas Johnson and Guma Kunda Komey, the Co-Directors of Studies for the Rift Valley Institute’s Sudan and South Sudan Course, which will be taking place in Entebbe, Uganda from 25 June – 1 July 2016. This year’s course will look back into the history of both countries in order to look […]
Nimo-Ilhan Ali and Rashid Abdi discuss ‘tahriib’
Nimo-llhan Ali and Rashid Abdi discuss migration, the meaning of taahrib, and the challenges faced by returning youth in Somaliland and diaspora. The discussion took place on the 2014 Horn of Africa Course.
The Shading Tree Fund—scholarships for Eastern and Central Africa
The RVI scholarship fund is relaunched this month as the RVI Shading Tree Fund. This follows a generous donation from the family of Ranald Boyle, a former District Commissioner in South Sudan. Since the Institute was founded, the scholarship fund has enabled young scholars and activists from Eastern and Central Africa to participate in RVI […]
RVI’s 2017 annual courses come to a close
This June, RVI hosted the Institute’s fourteenth Annual Field Courses in Entebbe, Uganda, covering Sudan and South Sudan, the Great Lakes and the Horn of Africa. The innovative, dawn-to-dusk programme of seminars, lectures, group discussions and special events covered a variety of social, political and economic issues in the region, including migration, elections, armed groups, […]
Great Lakes Course 2015
The Great Lakes: Elections, institutional reform, deep history, by Jason Stearns The Great Lakes region remains tumultuous and crisis-prone, although the dynamics of conflict and instability seem to be slowly shifting from the battlefield to the electoral arena. The buzz of impending elections has gripped Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), even […]
Sudan and South Sudan Course 2015
Civil wars, transitional justice and international mediation in Sudan and South Sudan, by Sharath Srinivasan The 2015 RVI Sudan and South Sudan Field Course takes stock eighteen months after a devastating civil war began in South Sudan and in the wake of controversial elections in Sudan and ongoing insurgencies. The course confronts the stark trade off […]
Horn of Africa Course 2015
New directors, new directions This year Ken Menkhaus steps out of his role as academic director of the Horn Course, making way for Laura Hammond and Dereje Feyissa. Laura Hammond is a Reader in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has worked on the Somali territories since 1998. […]