Abu Bakarr BahAbu Bakarr Bah is Presidential Research Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University and founding director of the Institute for Research and Policy Integration in Africa. He is also editor in chief of African Conflict and Peacebuiding Review and African editor for Critical Sociology. His works include International Statebuilding in West Africa: Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d’Ivoire; Post-conflict Institutional Design: Peacebuilding and Democracy in Africa; International Security and Peacebuilding: Africa, the Middle East, and Europe; and Breakdown and Reconstitution: Democracy, the Nation-State, and Ethnicity in Nigeria, as well as articles in numerous journals. Read More Read Less