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No Fist is Big Enough to Hide the Sky
Decolonization struggles against the Portuguese are often thought about as Angola and Mozambique, far less does one hear about Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Basil Davidson brings first-hand experience of that struggle, for which he was praised by none other than Amilcar Cabral himself in the Preface. The book, “No Fist is Big Enough to Hide […]
Tags: #Basil Davidson #Cape Verde #decolonization #Guinea-Bissau #Liberation
New Publication: Does diversification enhance community resilience? A critical perspective
Cochrane, L. and Cafer, A. (2018) Does Diversification Enhance Community Resilience? A Critical Perspective. Resilience. https://doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2017.1406849 Abstract: Resilience has become a key component of how practitioners and scholars conceptualize sustainable communities. Given sustainability’s focal role in shaping international development funding, policies and programming it is imperative that we critically engage with the concepts embedded within the […]
Tags: #Development Studies #Diversification #Ethiopia #Resilience #Sustainability
Rules for Revolutionaries
Want a post-internet, post-elitist update to Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals“? Here it is: “Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything” (2016) by Becky Bond and Zack Exley. The book is about ‘big organizing’ which the authors say “isn’t just about the effective use of the newest technology to scale participation in politics. As […]
Tags: #Big organizing #Organizing #Radical trust #Revolution #Rules for Revolutionaries
State and Land in Ethiopian History
Richard Pankhurst (1927-2017) is one of the most prolific historians of Ethiopia, described by the Foreign Minister as “one of Ethiopia’s greatest friends.” One of his earlier works is “State and Land in Ethiopian History” (1966). As expected from those familiar with Richard Pankhurst, the book offers insight into history that appears otherwise to be […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #History #Land #Law #Pankhurst
New Publication: Soil and Water Conservation in Ethiopia
Zerihun N., Tsunekawa, A., Nigussie H., Enyew A., Cochrane, L. and Floquet, A. and Abele, S. (2018). Applying Ostom’s Institutional Analysis and Development to Soil and Water Conservation in Ethiopia. Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.11.039 Abstract: Sustainable land management is of utmost importance in Ethiopia and relies on Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) measures collectively implemented by […]
Tags: #Conservation #Ethiopia #Institutional Analysis #Ostrom #Policy
Civil Wars in Africa: Roots and Resolutions
For some period in the 1980s and 1990s, there was a trend in conflict studies that suggested civil war in Africa was externally caused and driven. To counter that narrative, a group of scholars came together to explore the internal, domestic aspects of civil war in Africa (without neglecting the external factors). The result was […]
Tags: #Africa #Civil war #Conflict #Managing conflict #Preventing conflict
About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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