Center on International Cooperation

A. Sarjoh Bah, PhD.

Non-Resident Fellow

Email: amb18 @ nyu.edu

Topical Expertise: Regional Security Cooperation, Peacekeeping, Transitional Justice, Conflict Resolution and Management, and Multilateral Diplomacy

Geographical Expertise: Africa

Dr. Bah holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Queen's University, Canada. He specializes in sub-regional and regional integration, and security cooperation in Africa with a specific focus on ECOWAS, SADC and the African Union. Prior to his current engagement, he worked as a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies and an international consultant to several organizations including the European Commission, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE), ECOWAS and the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue among others. He was involved in developing the legal and policy framework for the Eastern Africa Standby Brigade; as part of the African Union's effort to establish an African Standby Force. Sarjoh was one of four consultants contracted by the European Commission to undertake the mid-term evaluation of the 250 Million Euro Africa Peace Facility. He recently completed a mid-term assessment of the ECOWAS Early Warning System with a specific focus on the ECOWAS’ engagement in Liberia and Togo. He is a keen follower of the emerging relationship between the African Union and European Union, the African Union and the United Nations especially in the areas of peace and security. Dr. Bah worked as a teacher and journalist in Botswana, and has traveled extensively in Africa, Europe and North America. Dr. Bah is a regular commentator on African and international security issues, and has been interviewed and quoted in The Financial Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, El Mundo, the PBS Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Worldfocus on PBS, the Sudan Tribune, Angola Press, the South African Broadcasting Corporation and Radio France International among others. His publications include A Tortuous Road to Peace: The Dynamics of Regional, UN and International Humanitarian Interventions in Liberia, ISS: Pretoria, South Africa, 2005 (co-edited with Festus Aboagye), and numerous journal articles, book chapters and reports on a broad range of issues.

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Publications

The Broader Horn of Africa: Peacekeeping in a Strategic Vacuum, International Peacekeeping Volume 16, Issue 4 August 2009.

Dilemmas of Regional Peacemaking: The Dynamics of the AU's Response to Darfur, CIC Policy Paper, March, 2010.

ECOWAS and Conflict Prevention in West Africa: Confronting the Triple Threats, CIC Policy Paper, August, 2009.

The African Union in Darfur: Understanding the Afro-Arab response to the Crisis, FRIDE Policy Paper, March, 2010. (This Paper was translated into Arabic).

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2009, Volume Editor. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008/9.

US Peace Operations Policy in Africa: From ACRI to AFRICOM, Co-authored with Kwesi Aning. International Peacekeeping, Volume 15 (2008): 118-132.

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2008, Volume Editor. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008.

Peacekeeping Partnerships: Issues, Lessons Learned and Future Options, Co-authored with Bruce Jones, Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2008

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2007. Series Coordinator. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2007

Peacekeeping in Sudan: The Dynamics of Protection, Partnerships and Inclusive Politics, Co-authored with Ian Johnstone, An Occasional policy paper of the Center on International Cooperation, New York University, May 2007

The Making of the Rwandan Genocide and the Future Protection of Civilians in Africa, in John Laband (ed.), Daily Life of Civilians in Wartime Africa – From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2007

A Tortuous Road to Peace: Understanding the Dynamics of Regional, U.N. and International Humanitarian Interventions in Liberia, Co-edited with Festus Aboagye, Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, 2005

The Intervention Dilemma: The Dynamics of Civilian Protection in the Post-Cold War Era, in Festus Abogye and Alhaji M.S. Bah, eds. A Tortuous Road to Peace: Understanding the Dynamics of Regional, U.N. and International Humanitarian Interventions in Liberia, Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, 2005

Mid-Term Evaluation of the African Peace Facility Framework Contract (9ACP RPR 22) 250 M€, Co-authored with James Mackie, Jonas Frederiksen and Stella Sabiiti. Evaluation Commissioned by the European Commission, Maastricht, 19 January 2006

Enhancing African Peace and Security: a useful role for the UK and G8, International Affairs, Volume 81, Number 2, March 2005.

West Africa – From a Security Complex to a Security Community, African Security Review, Vol. 14 No. 2, 2005

Liberia at a Crossroads: A Preliminary Look at the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) – A Crucial Role in the Protection of Civilians, ISS Occasional Paper, No. 95, November 2004

Micro-Disarmament in West Africa: The ECOWAS Moratorium on Small Arms and Light Weapons, African Security Review, Volume 13 No. 3, 2004

Toward a Regional Approach to Human Security in Southern Africa, Martello Papers, No. 26, Centre for International Relations, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, May, 2004

Implementing the ECOWAS Small Arms Moratorium in Post-War Sierra Leone, Ploughshares Working Paper, 04-1, May 2004

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