ABUADPeace

We promote nonviolent and constructive conflict management and peace in all levels of human relationships. We create the conditions for sustainable peace.

ABUAD Peace and Conflict Studies Programmes

Afe Babalola University is currently the only conventional Nigerian University offering both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Peace and Conflict Studies. We offer B.Sc. Peace and Conflict Studies at the undergraduate and PGD and M.Sc. degrees in Conflict Peace and Strategic Studies at the postgraduate levels. We are one of the best staffed P

eace and Conflict Studies Programme in Africa. Our staffs are experts in different areas of Peace and Conflict Studies. Our goal is to be a Centre of Excellence in Peace Studies in Africa by 2021. We want to turn out high-flying graduates of Peace and Conflict Studies working in dream organisations around the world. Why YOU should choose ABUAD Peace and Conflict Studies

Trust us, we understand how the employment markets work and how best to prepare our students to maximise the opportunities it offers. Most graduates are unemployable because they lack requisite competencies that employer desire. This is because both the curriculum and teaching methods of their courses do not help them develop requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) demanded by today’s employment world. ABUAD Peace programme is designed to prevent these deficiencies in students’ training. Drawing from findings of scientific studies from across the globe, we identified KSAs that are in high demand by employers in university graduates; particularly, graduates of Peace and Conflict Studies. We, therefore, equip our students with these employer-desired KSAs. Our graduates are therefore, naturally equipped not only to survive but succeed in the highly competitive global employment market. We made a deliberate effort to strike appropriate balance between academic/intellectual competencies and specialised professional capacity. Thus we prepare our students for dream careers in International Peace and Conflict Management in conflict resolution (Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)), conflict transformation and peacebuilding, humanitarian services/responses, human rights, gender studies/advocacy, community development, governance, media (conflict sensitive reporting), peace education, law, and more. Our graduates are adequately trained and equipped to work in organisations such as the United Nations—UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNESCO, World Bank, WHO, World Food Programme,—African Union, ECOWAS, USAID, German GTI, Action Aid, Saferworld, Oxfam, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent, Norwegian Refugee Council, UK DFID, British Council, Norway NORAD, NDDC, Niger Delta Ministry, all military, intelligence and security agencies and other choice organisations both home and abroad. Our 7-pronged Strategy for equipping our students for Career Success
• Curriculum and teaching method
• Excellent teaching staff
• Strategic partnerships with practitioner organisations
• Exposure to international networks of peace scholars and practitioners
• Beneficial tripartite relationship between student, staff, and parent
• Strategic professional capacity building for career success
• Alumni Network

01/02/2026

Focus Nigeria

26/01/2026

Call for Papers for a Special Issue: "Forms of the Nation: Borders and Migration in the Contemporary Novel" (Winter 2027). This special issue is guest edited by Dr. Gabriele Lazzari (University of Surrey) and Dr. Peter Ely (Northeastern University London). Visit our website for the CFP:
https://www.studiesinthenovel.org/submit/call-for-papers.html

15/01/2026

DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
invites you to her

Staff and Postgraduate Students’ Seminar

Topic:
Experiencing Urban Transformations in Lagos Eastern Coastline

Speaker:
Dr. Pauline Guinard
Urban Geographer & Director,
French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA), Nigeria

🗓 Date: Friday, 16th January, 2026
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM
📍 Venue: SLT (Faculty of the Social Sciences)

For our virtual participants, please join the seminar using the link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86415349834?pwd=ZjM27JQecXQnbT7SC4H51dBPaWEFu9.1
Meeting ID: 864 1534 9834
Passcode: 600662

All staff, postgraduate students, and interested members of the university community are kindly encouraged to attend.

Come and be part of an engaging and intellectually stimulating academic session.

14/01/2026

I’m very happy to share this Call for Abstracts for the graduate conference
“Beyond Binaries and Borders. Rethinking Qualitative Research in Gender and Q***r Studies from the Global South”, which will take place on 24–25 September 2026 at the University of Naples L’Orientale (Italy) and online.

This conference is a project I deeply care about and that I’m proud to co-organise. It was conceived as a space for critical dialogue, methodological reflection, and exchange of perspectives that challenge rigid binaries and geopolitical borders, with particular attention to voices and researches from the Global South.

📣 Call for Abstracts: January 15 – February 28, 2026
📩 Notification of acceptance: by May 10, 2026
All the details are available via the QR code or at this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EGWaAInaICGVEFv_HMPz7ReqCl2VuBP5/view?usp=sharing
Feel free to share and spread the word!✨🌈

10/01/2026

Join us

03/01/2026

Panel Title:
Decoding Urban Africa through Informal Spaces: Embodied Performance, Sociocultural Scripts and the Politics of Urban (Mis)Governance in Beer Parlours and Motorparks

Panel Description
African cities are constituted not only by roads, estates and master plans, but also by informal spaces that shape everyday life and politics. Indeed, power, influence and vital decisions relating to urban centres are often negotiated with due consideration of these spaces. Among them, beer parlours and motor parks stand out as critical arenas of performance, negotiation, and (mis)governance. They are sites where people do more than drink, hustle, argue, or joke: they are spaces of mobility and stages for navigating the precarities of urban existence.

This panel takes seriously the anthropological insight that informal spaces are stages of embodied performance and sociocultural scripting. Beer parlours are theatres of conviviality and social identity, while motor parks operate as contested arenas of authority, regulation, and power. Both are crucial for understanding the politics of urban (mis)governance: how governance is enacted, contested, or parodied outside formal institutions.

We welcome papers that engage with (but are not limited to):

Ethnographies of beer parlours or motor parks as stages of embodiment, conviviality, and authority.

The politics of rumor, gossip, and banter as tools of informal governance.

Gendered performances of power and identity in leisure and mobility spaces.

Kejebu, masculinity, s*x, control, and marriage.

Mobility, risk, and survival in the performative life of African cities.

Eru iku (agents of death), violence, policing, and informal regulation in motor parks.

Comparative analyses of informal governance across different African urban contexts.

Theoretical reflections on performance, sociocultural scripts, and urban (mis)governance in African Studies.

Submission Guidelines
Abstracts of no more than 250 words, accompanied by a short bio (max. 100 words), should be submitted by December 1, 2025 to [email protected] and [email protected] Please include the title of your proposed paper, institutional affiliation, and contact details.

Selected papers presented at the panel will be considered for publication in an edited volume (with a reputable international publisher) or in Agidigbo: ABUAD Journal of the Humanities or the African Journal of Stability and Development (AJSD).

Panel Convener:
Adeyemi Johnson Ademowo, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Nigeria

Noah Opeyemi Balogun, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Nigeria