The Sahel
Research focuses on the conflict and security challenges in the region.
Our experts
Cathy Haenlein
Director of Organised Crime and Policing Studies
Organised Crime and Policing
Michael Jones
Research Fellow
Terrorism and Conflict
Simon Rynn
Senior Research Fellow, African Security
International Security
Dr Jack Watling
Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare
Military Sciences
Fellows
Dr Fola Aina
Associate Fellow; International security analyst and researcher
Professor Stig Jarle Hansen
Senior Associate Fellow - Expert in Islamism in the Horn of Africa and the Al-Shabaab group
Ewan Lawson
Associate Fellow
Luniya Msuku
Associate Fellow
Dr Michael Nwankpa
Associate Fellow; Founding Director/Director of Research at the Centre for African Conflict and Development, London
Dr Imogen Parsons
Former Senior Research Fellow
Sir William Patey KCMG LLD
Distinguished Fellow
Our research in this region explores the conflict, security and peace operations across Sub-Saharan Africa, with specific focus on countering terrorism and violent extremism, combatting illegal wildlife trade, environmental crime and climate security.
