Open Dialogue Research Journal
Twenty people landed in Monrovia this week as the opening installment of an agreement that will eventually send up to 1,200 deportees from the United States to Liberia – a west African nation with no direct connection to most of the people it’s about to receive. The arrangement is being […]
There is much in the nature of a map. The very drawing of a line signifies an assertion, an acceptance, or even a repudiation of power. Borders are delineated for reasons of interest and understanding. I chart, therefore it is. Areas of territorial dispute are reconciled by the cartographer’s handy […]
On 17 February 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a sweeping measure: from 1 May 2026, China would lift import tariffs on goods from the 53 African Union (AU) member states that maintain diplomatic relations with Beijing. The policy-covering goods worth more than $116 billion, roughly Africa’s 2024 exports to […]
Part I Discussions about singularity often generate sensational headlines, particularly when connected to population growth. Some interpretations suggest that humanity is approaching a dramatic threshold around the late 2020s. The origins of this idea can be traced to mathematical models developed in the twentieth century. Researchers observed that for long […]
The mass crossing into Ceuta last week did more than overwhelm a small Spanish enclave on Morocco’s northern coast – it laid bare, in the space of a few days, almost every structural weakness in Europe’s approach to migration at its African frontier. Tens of thousands of people, mobilized in […]
When 18-year-old Al-Nazir Al-Sadig fled Sudan’s civil war with his family, he believed Egypt would offer the safety and stability that had disappeared from his homeland. Instead, according to relatives and friends, the teenager spent the final weeks of his life in an overcrowded detention facility in Cairo, where poor […]
The world is entering a period of profound uncertainty. Political upheavals, demographic shifts, technological breakthroughs, and geopolitical realignments are converging to create a historical moment unlike any experienced before. Many of the assumptions that guided policymakers, scholars, and societies throughout the twentieth century are becoming increasingly unreliable as humanity encounters […]
They’re not the same thing, unlike what many might think, and the difference is important. Reports indicate that Russia has withdrawn from three bases in Northeastern Mali, which the local Tuareg call Azawad, after the offensive by “Azawad Liberation Front” (FLA) Tuareg separatists and al-Qaeda-affiliated “Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin” (JNIM) radical […]
The common denominator connecting these five questions is the ultimate one about how Russia’s top brass really assesses the conflict’s overall military-strategic dynamics. The latest Malian insurgency took a twist after the terrorist-designated groups, the Tuareg “Azawad Liberation Front” (FLA) and the al-Qaeda-affiliated “Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin” (JNIM), reached out to Russia. Their messages […]
Late April 2026 became a defining moment for Mali, when a series of coordinated attacks evolved into a large-scale challenge to the country’s political and military stability. What initially appeared to be another episode in a long-running insurgency quickly revealed a far more ambitious design. Armed groups launched near-simultaneous strikes […]
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