{"id":748,"date":"2026-03-05T13:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/?p=748"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:30:52","slug":"ora8-2026-conference-governing-jihad-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/2026\/03\/05\/ora8-2026-conference-governing-jihad-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"ORA8 Conference 2026: “Governing Jihad in Africa”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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15-16 April 2026 – Queen’s University Belfast<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday 15<\/mark><\/strong><\/td>DAY ONE<\/td><\/tr>
5pm
at Senate Room (LAN\/0G\/059)<\/td>		KEYNOTE<\/mark><\/strong>
Prof. Zachariah Mampilly (CUNY), “On Rebel Taxation: Violence, Ideology and the Construction of Wartime Economic Order”.<\/td><\/tr>
Thursday 16<\/strong><\/td>DAY TWO<\/td><\/tr>
9am at 27 University Square\/01.003<\/td>Opening of Conference<\/td><\/tr>
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9,15am–10,45am
at 27 UQ\/01.003<\/td>		ROUNTABLE ONE<\/mark>
<\/mark><\/strong>“Ideology & Norms<\/strong>“
Dr Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen (T.U.Mombasa), Dr Abdulakim Nsobya (QUB), Prof. Emilio Zeca (CEEI, Maputo), and Dr Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim (ICG, Mali). Moderator: Prof. Eric Morier-Genoud (QUB)
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11,00-12,30
at 27 UQ\/01.003<\/td>		ROUNDTABLE TWO<\/mark><\/strong>
“Political Economy<\/strong>“
Dr Baba Coulibaly (U. Bamako), Flore Berger (GITOC), Dr Marte Beld\u00e9 (CNRS), and Peter Bofin (ACLED). Moderator: Dr Yvan Guichaoua (Biic)<\/td><\/tr>
Lunch<\/em><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
13,30-3,00pm
at PFC\/03\/017<\/td>		ROUNDTABLE THREE<\/mark><\/strong>
“Violence & Counter-violence<\/strong>“
with Prof. Salvador Forquilha (IESE, Maputo), Dr Nestor Zante (CNRS), James Barnett (Oxford), and Prof. Kristof Titeca (Anwerp), Moderator: Prof. Corinna Jentzsch (Leiden)
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Cafe<\/em><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
3,30-5,00pm
at PFC\/03\/017<\/td>		ROUNDTABLE FOUR<\/mark><\/strong>
“Humanitarian Perspectives<\/strong>”
With Hamadoun Dicko (MSF), Alexander Liebeskind (HD), and Dr Matthew Bamber-Zryd (ICRC). Moderator: Dr Vincent Foucher (CNRS)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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15-16 April 2026 – Queen’s University Belfast Wednesday 15 DAY ONE 5pm at Senate Room (LAN\/0G\/059) KEYNOTEProf. Zachariah Mampilly (CUNY), “On Rebel Taxation: Violence, Ideology and the Construction of Wartime Economic Order”. Thursday 16 DAY TWO 9am at 27 University Square\/01.003 Opening of Conference 9,15am–10,45amat 27 UQ\/01.003 ROUNTABLE ONE“Ideology & Norms“Dr Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen (T.U.Mombasa), … Continue reading ORA8 Conference 2026: “Governing Jihad in Africa”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,28,29],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-africa","tag-conflict","tag-jihad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa93ki-c4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}