The Colloquium in International Security Studies presents
Michael Woldemariam, associate professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, and a Senior Fellow, Center for International & Security Studies, Maryland and Alden Young, associate professor, History and Global Affairs, Yale University:
“After the Split: Secession and Statebuilding in the Horn of Africa.”
The two scholars are co-writing a book on post-partition conflicts in the Horn of Africa (e.g., Sudan-South Sudan and Ethiopia-Eritrea) and will present “After the Split: Secession and Statebuilding in the Horn of Africa.”
Woldemariam’s teaching and research interests are in African security studies, focusing on armed conflict in the Horn of Africa.
A political and economic historian of Africa and the Middle East, Young has written extensively about Sudan and is currently working on a number of research projects that examine the impact of the Arab Gulf States in the 1970s on the Greater Red Sea region.