Sub-Saharan Africa

Among other things, DIIS researches mobility, adaptation to climate change, the sustainable use of natural resources, governance and the causes of conflict.

Research and activites

  • Soldater i Vestafrika
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar sheds light on the myriad challenges shaping West Africa and discusses the recent political upheavals, the growing influence of Russia, and the complex web of migration patterns intersecting the region and beyond
  • Locally-led Adaptation report and pb cover
    Webinar
    Online via Zoom
    Climate change adaptation in the Global South is urgent. Locally-led approaches are gaining momentum. But what does that mean in practice and does it work? This webinar launches a new DIIS report on lessons from locally-led adaptation in East Africa
  • European and African leaders discussing climate change problems - AI generated
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Join us for an open discussion on how to rethink climate, peace and security efforts with African partners
  • UN soldier
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    The closure of the UN mission in Mali in 2023 is bound to open up many questions about the future of peacekeeping as a form of multilateral intervention. Join this seminar to learn more from leading experts in the field
  • Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar brings together leading scholars on humanitarianism to discuss the state of humanitarianism today, its historical entanglements and its future
  • shepherds walking in Africa
    Webinar
    Online via Zoom
    How should climate change adaptation be governed? This webinar examines how climate change adaptation policies and projects govern mobility, land rights and finance in the African context, and what the lessons are for adaptation governance.
  • Mærsk skib bag ved båd
    Livestreaming
    DIIS, auditorium
    Two years after a Danish warship was deployed in West Africa to fight piracy, DIIS takes stock of counter-piracy efforts in the Gulf of Guinea. It focuses on the prospects of using private security to protect international shipping vessels
  • banner diis event africa
    Webinar
    Online Zoom meeting
    In this webinar, national and regional practitioners of the women, peace and security agenda exchange their experiences in advancing women’s role in peace governance and challenges for policy implementation in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali and beyond
  • Guatamala and mexico funeral because of accidant
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar focuses on the ways structural roots, such as inequality, as well as sudden events like natural catastrophes or conflicts enable and constrain current international migration flows. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of theory and categorisation in how we understand climate change and migration
  • kenya food distribution via fingerprint tech system
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    How do NGOs use algorithms and data-driven tools for predictive analysis in their humanitarian response?
  • Solar cells in Niger
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    The seminar analyses the institutional architecture of how and where finance for climate change adaptation is spent and which route of transfer it follows from national to local levels
  • Ministry of Livestock, Somaliland
    DIIS Auditorium
    A retrospective seminar with and for senior researcher Finn Stepputat
  • Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    When disaster strike, diaspora groups are often first responders and remain engaged during lengthy and complex crises. Join this roundtable where we discuss practices, possibilities and pitfalls
  • Både ved strand
    DIIS Auditorium
    Autoetnography is emerging as a trend in current research. Come and reflect on the different ways to use personal experience and positionality with four migration scholars
  • Trade makes states book cover
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    The control of trade and transport is key to statemaking. A new book suggests that this, rather than the control of people and territory, can make or unmake state projects in areas like Somalia. This seminar introduces the ideas behind the book
  • book confronting the Caliphate
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Occupying a square to prevent the Sharia-judge from amputating a teenager’s hand, spraying forbidden graffiti at public buildings, secretly listening to nonreligious music at home, or shouting anti-jihadist slogans with hundreds of others at a public protest: these are only a few examples of a much larger range of nonviolent resistance behavior displayed by civilians who have lived under the repressive rule of jihadists
  • Drought in Somalia Dead animal because of climate change
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar brings together scholars and practitioners to discuss pathways for a broadened climate security agenda on fragile states centered on addressing livelihood and security needs of populations
  • flooded homes within a village after the River Nile broke the dykes in Jonglei State, South Sudan, October 5, 2020.
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Defying the state in theory and practice
  • Book covers, double book launch seminar
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Join us for the launch of two new unique research based books on Tanzania
  • Massebegravelse i Ukraine
    DIIS Auditorium
    Explaining state terror and atrocities, from Nazi Germany to the war in Ukraine
  • fire in australian forrest because of climate change
    Livestreaming is only for sign ups
    DIIS, auditorium
    Insights from DIIS' latest research on development efforts and challenges across the globe - and their interactions with increasingly widespread and acute climate change impacts
  • ghana-un-mission-lebanon-photo-Patrick-Baz-AFP-Ritzau-Scanpix
    New research
    Increased awareness of preventing war and terrorism in Ghana, and an understanding of the importance of engaging with communities to do good policing. These are two skills Ghanian police officers gain from UN missions.
  • Ghana-police-service
    New research
    Namely why the police service is one of the most corrupt institutions at home but praised for integrity and professionalism in UN peacekeeping missions.
  • Dødt dyr pga. tørke
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    At this seminar, we assess recent developments in loss and damage policy, research and practice to identify possible ways forward towards COP27 and beyond
  • Armed_Islamist_fighters_race_near_the_Mauritania-Mali_border-photo-Jemal-Ould-Mohamed-Oumar
    Call for papers
    We invite abstracts and papers that are interdisciplinary and oriented towards providing unique perspectives on natural resource management and conflict in Africa.
  • Photograph: Central Ethiopia, Neil Webster

    The Governing Climate Mobility programme (GCM) examines how governance contexts influence mobility options and decisions in areas affected by climate change. Development literature and...

  • ©Dorthe Thorsen
    The social effects of migration management for West African migrants. ‘New Geographies of Hope and Despair’ is a five-year research programme on West African migration, running between 2012 and...
  • Timber Rush – Private forestry on village land. Photo by Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

    Timber Rush investigates the scale and drivers of the current investments in land and timber in Tanzania, testing the hypothesis that investments are first and foremost driven by domestic factors...