
Alex de Waal
Executive Director, World Peace Foundation
Alex de Waal is the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a Research Professor at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. His most recent book is The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, war and the business of power (Cambridge, Polity, 2015).
At the heart of South Sudan’s descent into chaos is a failed effort at security sector reform. When Sudan’s long civil war ended in 2005, the U.S. – along with other donors – poured money and [...] More