Ladan Affi

Associate Professor
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  • Address: Abu Dhabi - Khalifa City, MF1.2.061
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Introduction

Ladan Affi is an Associate Professor in the department of International Affairs at Zayed University, UAE. Her research areas include women, peacebuilding and politics; Diasporas and their impact on development, conflict and governance; and maritime security in the Horn of Africa. She is a co-editor of Women and Peacebuilding in Africa (2021 James Currey), a comparative study of women and politics in five post-conflict African countries. She has also published in different academic journals such as Third World Quarterly, Journal of Somali Studies, African Security and Global Affairs. Currently, she is working on  research examining the impact of diasporas on governance and political participation in the Horn of Africa.

Qualifications

PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison;

MA University of Wisconsin-Madison;

MA Northeastern Illinois University

Previous Positions

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar,

Visiting Professor, Université de Djibouti, Djibouti,

Visiting Professor, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York,

Memberships

Midwest Political Science Association

Somali Studies International Association

African Studies Association

 

Research and Professional Activities

Research interests:

Peacebuilding and conflict; gender and politics; diaspora and political engagement.

Current Projects:

This project examines the political participation of the diaspora in the Horn of Africa. This project is two-pronged, focusing on the opportunities and challenges that comes with diaspora’s political engagement at home. Diaspora’s contribute to knowledge and skills transfer, which are beneficial to their home countries. But they can also contribute to conflict.

 

Teaching Areas

POL 227 – Introduction to Political Science

POL 325 – Comparative Political Systems

POL 331 – Principles of International Relations

POL 333 – Foreign Relations of the United States

HSS 366 – Research Methods

HSS 397 – Special Topics

HSS 497 – Senior Seminar

Affi, Ladan and Zainab Hassan (2024) “Establishing Safe Workplaces for Women in Somalia” Heritage Institute for Policy Studies

Affi, Ladan (2024) “Women Do Everything Except Politics: Gender Quota in a Postconflict Society“ in State, Ethnicity and Gender; Aili Mari Tripp and Scott Straus Eds. University of Wisconsin Press

Affi, Ladan & Zainab Hassan (July 2022) “Women and Politics: Overcoming Barriers of Representation” Heritage Institute for Policy Studies

Affi, Ladan, Liv Tonnessen and Aili Mari Tripp (Eds.) (2021) Women and Peacebuilding in Africa. Suffolk: James Currey

Affi, Ladan (2020) “The Old Men Who Hold Us Back: Clan Elders, Elite Bargaining and Exclusionary Politics” Journal of Somali Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 25 – 45

Affi, L. (2020) “Excluding Women: The Clanization of Somali Political Institutions” Oslo: Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI) Brief, No. 9