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.
Sustained collective action in the lead up to, over the course of, and in the…
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Libya was the fifth most active country in the ACLED dataset in February 2015 with…
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The Egyptian air force’s bombing campaign in Libya’s eastern city of Derna on the 16th…
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January saw heightened conflict activity in Egypt; a pattern that is evident in both 2013…
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The most significant trend witnessed throughout 2014 in Egypt was the dramatic decline of riot…
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Libya was the fourth most active and the sixth most violent country in the ACLED…
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A cursory glance at Egypt’s conflict landscape from the beginning of the revolutionary uprising would…
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The succession of power in African states has the potential to create destabilising dynamics. Whilst…
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On Sunday, Tunisia observed the first round of presidential elections since the 2011 revolution, with…
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