Abiodun Alao
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Abiodun Alao's Degrees
- PhD International Relations University of Ibadan
- Masters International Relations University of Ibadan
- Bachelors Political Science University of Ibadan
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Abiodun Alao is a Nigerian academic and professor of African studies at King’s College London and the programme director of the African Leadership Centre. He is also the chair of the King’s College London Africa Community of Practice and between December 2013 and August 2015 held a visiting professorship position at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria. He is the author of A New Narrative for Africa: Voice and Agency, which "examines the perception of Africa in the global system, tracing Africa’s transition from a "problem" to be solved into an agent with a rising voice in the world."
Abiodun Alao's Published Works
Published Works
- Apartheid's Contras: An Inquiry into the Roots of War in Angola and Mozambique (1994) (201)
- Natural resources and conflict in Africa : the tragedy of endowment (2007) (92)
- Diamonds are forever ... but so also are controversies: Diamonds and the actors in Sierra Leone's civil war (1999) (52)
- Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa (2007) (40)
- Islamic radicalisation and violent extremism in Nigeria (2013) (37)
- Mugabe and the Politics of Security in Zimbabwe (2012) (37)
- The Burden of Collective Goodwill: The International Involvement in the Liberian Civil War (1998) (33)
- Abiodun Alao, John Mackinlay and Funmi Olonisakin, Peacekeepers, Politicians, and Warlords: The Liberian Peace Process (2002) (31)
- Africa after the Cold War: The Changing Perspectives on Security (1998) (26)
- Economic fragility and political fluidity: Explaining natural resources and conflicts (2000) (21)
- Youths in the interface of development and security (2007) (20)
- Brothers At War: Dissidence and Rebellion in Southern Africa (1994) (17)
- Cut short for taking short cuts: The Lomé peace agreement on Sierra Leone (2001) (15)
- African economies (2019) (11)
- Islamic radicalisation and violence in Liberia (2013) (10)
- Security Sector Reform and the Challenges and Opportunities of the Privatisation of Security (2002) (7)
- Natural Resources and the Dynamics of Conflicts in West Africa (2011) (5)
- People, States and Regions (2005) (5)
- A comparative evaluation of the armed struggle in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe (1996) (5)
- Chinese Business Interest and Banking in Nigeria (2010) (4)
- The World in Conflict 1994/95 (1995) (3)
- Africa’s Security Challenges and China’s Evolving Approach to Africa’s Peace and Security Architecture (2018) (3)
- Information Use and Decision Making by Market Women in Lagos, Nigeria (2013) (2)
- Peacekeepers, politicians, and warlords (1999) (2)
- Beyond liberal institution (re)building: conversations on peacebuilding and statebuilding in Sierra Leone (2021) (2)
- Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: Rochester studies in African History and the Diaspora (2007) (2)
- Managing Regional Security in Times of Change: Lessons and Conclusions from ECOWAS (2005) (2)
- A New Narrative for Africa (2019) (1)
- Banking in Nigeria and Chinese Economic Diplomacy in Africa (2010) (1)
- ECOWAS and the Dynamics of Conflict and Peace-Building (2011) (1)
- Mau-Mau Warrior (2006) (1)
- Global responses to Africa’s new narrative (2019) (0)
- Commonwealth Bookshelf (2022) (0)
- Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: Notes (2007) (0)
- African politics, peace, and security (2019) (0)
- The Conflicts over Solid Minerals (2007) (0)
- Writing and re-writing Africa (2019) (0)
- Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: Conflicts Involving Oil (2007) (0)
- NEW ISSUES IN REFUGEE RESEARCH (2000) (0)
- Political Geography of Natural Resources in Africa (2007) (0)
- Background of the Africa as a “problem” narrative (2019) (0)
- South Africa's Future Defence and Security: identifying the national interest by WILLIAM GUTTERIDGE London: RISCT, 1997. Pp. 24. £10.00 (pbk.). (1999) (0)
- Privatisation of Security and Security Sector Reform in Uganda (2002) (0)
- Internal Security Management and the United Nations (1999) (0)
- Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: Framework for Understanding a Linkage (2007) (0)
- Conclusion (2019) (0)
- Religion and social transformation in Africa (2019) (0)
- Rage and Carnage in the Name of God (2022) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Between Economic Fragility and Political Fluidity: Natural Resource Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa (2000) (0)
- Brassey Defence Yearbook 1993 (1993) (0)
- Factors and issues in the transformation to “agency” (2019) (0)
- Water and Conflict (2007) (0)
- Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War (1995) (0)
- The Changing Perspective on Security in Africa (1998) (0)
- Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: Political Geography of Natural Resources in Africa (2007) (0)
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