Tim Murithi – an Honorary Research Associate in the Institute – had a very productive year, authoring a series of book chapters and journal articles as well as co-editing a volume on Elections, violence and transitional justice in Africa. Tim also convened an in-person workshop (photos below) in the Institute in October on the SADC mission in northern Mozambique (SAMIM). The workshop was organized together with Stellenbosch University’s Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa and the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (in Cape Town). The workshop included excellent presentations by scholars from the University of the Western Cape, UNISA, Stellenbosch, Nelson Mandela University and UCT, as well as from the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and from Mozambique itself. The administration of the workshop was handled in large part by Primrose Bimha, who was one of the Institute’s Post-Doctoral Research Fellows. Primrose also continued to develop her own research on external diplomatic interventions in Zimbabwe and Lesotho.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine also prompted the attention of the Institute’s researchers. Jeremy Seekings and Chris Saunders co-authored a paper on African responses and the implications for democracy in the region, part of which was published in the Strategic Review for Southern Africa. Tim Murithi also contributed an article to the Strategic Review. Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass also published an opinion piece in the Daily Maverick on the equivocation over the invasion by the Academy of Sciences in South Africa.