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About the editors

Mimmi Sderberg Kovacs is Head of Research at the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) and affiliated Senior Researcher with the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden. Her research focus is on non-state actors in civil wars, rebel-to-party transformations, conflict resolution, peace processes, and post-war democratisation.

Jesper Bjarnesen is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI). His main research area is qualitative migration studies, with a focus on the overlaps between voluntary and involuntary movements; the dynamics of mobility in relation to armed conflict; and the micro-politics of inclusion and exclusion in urban contexts in West Africa.

Violence in African Elections

Between Democracy and Big Man Politics

edited by Mimmi Sderberg Kovacs and Jesper Bjarnesen

Violence in African Elections: Between Democracy and Big Man Politics was first published in 2018 by Zed Books Ltd, The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London SE11 5RR, UK

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Contents

MIMMI SDERBERG KOVACS

HANNE FJELDE AND KRISTINE HGLUND

ANDERS SJGREN

MATTHEW I. MITCHELL

WILLY NINDORERA AND JESPER BJARNESEN

IBRAHIM BANGURA AND MIMMI SDERBERG KOVACS

TARILA MARCLINT EBIEDE

MARIAM BJARNESEN

JACOB RASMUSSEN

TARIRO MUTONGWIZO

DANIEL E. AGBIBOA

AFRA SCHMITZ

JESPER BJARNESEN AND MIMMI SDERBERG KOVACS