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Conflict, Security and Development Group

School of Social Science & Public Policy

King's College London

138-142 Strand

London WC2R 2LS  

Areas of Interest

• Conflict, Security and Development.
• Radicalisation and Political Violence.
• Human Security and Peacebuilding.
• African Security.
• Youth.
• Security Sector Reform.
• Regional Institutions and Security in Africa.

Education and Professional Background

Olawale Ismail, BSc (OAU, Ife, Nigeria), MPhil (Cambridge, UK), PhD (Bradford, UK) is a Research Associate/Fellow at the Conflict, Security and Development Group (CSDG), King’s College London. Before now, he worked in research capacity at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the New York-based Social Science Research Council. He was also a Fellow of the Bucerius Institute on Global Governance, Hamburg; Laureate, CODESRIA’s Governance Institute, Dakar, Senegal; Fellow, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) program on “Youth and Globalization in Africa”; Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar; and Fellow, Cambridge Commonwealth Society. 

Research Papers and Publications

• Olawale Ismail and Olonisakin, F (July 2008) “Nigeria and its Regional Settings” in CIDOB Yearbook 2008, Barcelona, Spain: CIDOB.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming September 2008) “Participation and Capacity Building in Security Sector Reform” in Tim Donais (ed) DCAF Yearbook 2008/9, Geneva: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming September 2008) “The US and Security Management in West Africa: A Case for Cooperative Intervention”, in Falola and Jalloh (eds) The US and West Africa: Interactions and Relations, USA: Uni. Of Rochester Press.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming September 2008) “Power Elites, War and Post-War Reconstruction in Africa: Continuities, Changes and Paradoxes”, Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming September 2008) ‘Youth and Conflicts over Natural Resources in Africa’, in Adedeji (ed) African Conflict Monitor Book Project.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming October 2008) “West Africa and the Global Dynamics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: Between Change and Stability”, Monograph/Working Paper Series, Uppsala: Nordic African Institute programme on Post Conflict Transition, the State and Civil Society in Africa.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming October 2008) ‘Human Security and Institutional Responses in West Africa’, in Jaye (ed) ECOWAS and Security in West Africa. Dakar: CODESRIA.
• Olawale Ismail et al (forthcoming October 2008) Regimes and Post-war Reconstruction in Africa: A Comparative Study of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Dakar: CODESRIA Comparative Research Network Paper series.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming December 2008) ‘Deconstructing Oluwole: Political Economy on the Margins of the State’, in Obadare and Adebanwi (eds) Encountering the State in Africa. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.  
• Olawale Ismail & Alao, C. (2007) “Youth in the Interface of Development and Security”, Journal of Conflict, Security and Development, Vol. 7, No. 1 (April 2007): 3-26.
• Olawale Ismail (2005) ‘Child Soldiers and Civil Wars in West Africa’, in Sesay, A (ed) Civil Wars, Child Soldiers, and Post-Conflict Peace Building in West Africa, Nigeria: College Press for AFSTRAG.
• Olawale Ismail (2002) “Liberia’s Child Soldiers: Paying the Price of Neglect,” Journal of Conflict, Security, and Development, 2:2 (2002): 125-134.