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Arsène Brice Bado
Member and Director of the Africa Regional Hub of the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) network Research Associate at the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) at WitsUniversity, Johannesburg Associate Researcher at the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) at the University of Ottawa
Research Interest(s): • Promotion of democracy, electoral violence • Civic and voter education in post-conflict contexts • Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding • Human rights and migration • Civil society organizations • Politics of Philanthropy in Africa • Security and non-state armed groups • West Africa: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Liberia
Discipline(s): Political Science
Biography
Arsène Brice Bado, PhD., is a lecturer and researcher in political science and international relations and director of the Center for Research and Action for Peace (CERAP) at the Jesuit University of Abidjan. He was a researcher at the Southern Voices Network (SVN) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, in 2015. He was also a visiting scholar at Yale University (USA) during the academic year 2014-2015; he was the 2017-2018 Anna and Donald Waite Endowed Chair at Creighton University in Omaha,
USA. During the 2023-2024 academic year, he was a Holman Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.
His research interests include democracy, conflict analysis, forced migration, electoral processes, and environmental issues. His publications have appeared in the Journal of International Migration and Integration, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Mediterranean Politics, African Journal of Democracy and Election Research, Revue Études, Revue Relations, La Civiltà Cattolica, etc. In addition, he has contributed to several book chapters. He is the editor of Dynamics of Civil Wars in Africa: A Holistic Approach, Paris: L'Harmattan,
2015; he is the author of Dignity across Borders: Forced Migration and Christian Social Ethics, Denver (Colorado): Outskirts Press, 2010; and the author of Global Citizenship and Eco-Citizenship in the Context of the Covid-19 Health Crisis, Abidjan: CERAP Editions, 2022.
He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Laval University in Canada in 2016. Since 2023, he has been certified by MIT in Impact Evaluation of Social Programs.
