This report examines the process through which the 2012 elections were held. It highlights challenges that faced major stakeholders, and reflects upon the Academy for Peace and Development’s (APD) sustained efforts to analyse these challenges and help devise mechanisms to overcome them. Finally, the report identifies a number of lessons that Somaliland must learn from […]

This is a podcast of the discussion between four experts from the African Great Lakes region on ‘Youth in the context of identity-based manipulation.’ They participated in the ‘Voix des Grands Lacs’, a topical radio show produced as part of the Cross-border Dialogue for Peace in the Great Lakes Region Programme, implemented by Interpeace and […]

‘Technical assistance’ in the form of international experts and advisers, and loans and grants for ‘institutional reform’ constitute a huge share of official development assistance. Yet a growing body of comparative and cumulative evaluations, further bolstered by academic research, show that its overall effectiveness in terms of better functioning governments, is limited at best. There […]

Participatory Polling is an innovative action research methodology through which the general public is consulted on policy related issues, using a questionnaire that has been designed with the contribution of societal and political stakeholders, whereby the results then serve as a basis for public dialogue and in support of the policy making process.