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VICTIMS OF JIHADIST VIOLENCE IN MALI
Youth and Protest: How “#Gambia” Ended Decades of Autocratic Rule
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Internally Displaced Persons in Faladie in Mali
Research is the process of going up different pathways to arrive at a verifiable finding. My research is organized around three interdisciplinary research programs. The first is centered on my dissertation analyzing the varying levels of governing state capacity and religious establishment embeddedness capacity to resist violent armed jihadism in West Africa.