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The Colloquium in International Security Studies continues its spring programming with a presentation by political scientist Michael Woldemariam and historian Alden Young. The two scholars are co-writing a book on post-partition conflicts in the Horn of Africa (e.g., Sudan-South Sudan and Ethiopia-Eritrea) and will present “After the Split: Secession and Statebuilding in the Horn of Africa.”

Michael Woldemariam is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International & Security Studies at Maryland. Woldemariam’s teaching and research interests are in African security studies, focusing on armed conflict in the Horn of Africa.

Alden Young is an associate professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. A political and economic historian of Africa and the Middle East, he has written extensively about Sudan and is currently working on a number of research projects that examine the impact of the Arab Gulf States in the 1970s on the Greater Red Sea region.

This event is open to the Yale community; lunch will be provided. Please email kaete.oconnell@yale.edu to receive the reading materials for this colloquium.