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.
The Arab Democracy Index IV, published in November 2014, documented that “there has been a…
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“Authoritarian regimes…breakdown in systematically different ways, and they also affect post-transition outcomes” Geddes (1999: 6)…
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Since June 2014, Libya has been the fourth most volatile country in the ACLED African…
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In February 2012, Boko Haram members burned down three schools in the town of Maiduguri…
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Following the announcement on the 16th October that the Nigerian government had negotiated the release…
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Since elections on June 25th, Libya’s volatile political landscape has, to a great extent, been…
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Electoral violence has long spurred debate over the catalysing effects of party rivalries, the strive…
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Nationwide hunger strikes across Egypt have grabbed international media attention in September as political activists,…
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The week ending 13 September 2014 witnessed the highest intensity of violence involving the Operation…
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