James Moody is Africa Research Manager with ACLED. In this role he oversees the coding of political violence and protest across all countries in Africa. He is also a Geography PhD Candidate at the University of Sussex. His research interests include protest movements across North and sub-Saharan Africa and the dynamics of civil war violence. His own research explores the rising wave of protest in the post-Arab uprising period, focusing on local level governance, forms of contention, and protest geography, diffusion, and escalation across Africa. James has country-specific knowledge on Egypt and Libya. He is based in Brighton, United Kingdom.
Levels of riots, protests and political violence in February remained relatively stable compared to the…
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Throughout 2015, multiple theatres of violence played out over the Libyan territory. Two prominent dynamics…
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January saw the Egyptian military forces redouble their efforts against Islamic militants and the State…
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Despite a dramatic decrease in insurgent activity in North Sinai through October (see Figure 1),…
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Episodes of political confrontation continued to fall throughout September, yet cause for celebration is a…
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In November 2014, The Islamic State’s recruitment and propaganda publication ‘Dabiq’ announced a strategy to…
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August witnessed a continuation in the decrease of violent conflict events in Egypt, a trend…
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Conflict events in Libya were subject to a slight rise in July, although they steadily…
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From December 2014 to February 2015, there was a significant lull in violence on all…
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