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Research and projects CPAID researchers have published numerous books, journal articles, working papers, and blogs. To maximise the impact of the research, these publications are made widely available and, where possible, open access for public and scholarly audiences. Moreover, while widely cited academically, and with research papers viewed in the tens of thousands, the research continues to draw interest from national news media, especially in Africa, increasing CPAID’s capacity to inform public debates.
See over 100 CPAID publications on UKRI website
Themed journal issues CPAID has published themed journal issues showcasing the breadth of its work from researchers and partners in Africa. Special issues in the Journal of Refugee Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Political Geography, and the Journal of Eastern African Studies have addressed, respectively, the complex dynamics of displacement and ‘return’ in Central and East Africa, self-determination in the Horn of Africa, conservation in violent environments, understandings of customary authority in development interventions and everyday realities of UN protection of civilians. Bringing together scholarship from CPAID’s expanding international network, these themed journals have centred notions of public authority and its five conceptual logics within debates on African development and humanitarianism.
Rural radicalism A forthcoming special issue, Rural Radicalism, will analyse forms of rural protest and resistance in the DRC, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Based on a workshop held in February 2021, the issue will speak to wider questions of order, legitimacy, and sovereignty by developing a new framework for investigating how historical and contemporary forms of radicalism in rural areas is shaped by, and affects, diverse forms of public authority.
