Selected journal articles

Anderson, E. A. B., Paalo, S. A., and Dramani, A. (2025). Pandemic-induced border closures in West Africa and the perils of cross-border Ghanaian women traders. Women’s Studies International Forum, 109 (10), 30-48.

Paalo, S. A., Degraft Arthur, D., Dramani, A., & Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2024). Exploring hybrid security strategies in Ghana: State and private sector partnerships. African Security Review, 33(1), 81-97.

Paalo, S. A., Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Arthur, D. D. (2024). Nationalist secessionism and global order: A comparison of the dynamics and impact of secession movements in Africa and Europe. Nations and Nationalism, 30(2), 219-234.

Banchani, J. P. S., Paalo, S. A., Acheampong, M., Kipo-Sunyehzi, D. D., Dramani, A. (2024) The Challenge of Attaining Resilient Local Structures in Grassroots Peacebuilding: A Study of Post-1994/95 Peacebuilding in Northern Ghana. Global Society, 1–22.

Anderson, E. A., Bob-Milliar, G. M., Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Paalo, S. A. (2024). Students' and Governments' Entanglements in Ghana's Political Transition: How (Not) to Understand Students' Relations with Civilian and Military Regimes, 1960–92. Africa Today, 70(3), 75-97.

Paalo, S. A., Banchani, S. J-P, Dramani, A., and Atule, D. (2024). Global Governance, Glocalisation and Endemic Instability in Africa, Journal of African Politics, 4(2), 20-39.

Paalo, S. A., Dotsey, S., Dramani, A., and Apeamenyo, R. (2024). Democracy as Electoral Ritualisation? The Illusion of Democratic Consolidation in Ghana. African Journal of Democracy and Election, 4(2), 29-47.

Adu-Gyamfi, S., Paalo, S.A, & Issifu, A.K. (2023). COVID-19 Border Policing in Ghana and its Impact on Trans-border Migration and Healthcare in West Africa. Africa Development, 48 (4), 103-123.

Dramani, A., Paalo, S. A., Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2023). Emerging local voices and new possibilities toward attaining sustainable peace in Bawku, north-eastern Ghana,  The African Journal on Conflict Resolution, 23(1), 107-134.

Paalo, S. A. (2022). Intergenerational gaps in women’s grassroots peacebuilding in Ghana: A critique of “inclusive peacebuilding”. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 14 (4), 287-303.

Issifu, A. K., Darko, F. D., and Paalo, S. A. (2022). Climate change, migration and farmer-herder conflict in Ghana. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 39(4), 421–439.

Paalo, S. A., Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Arthur, D. D. (2022). Xenophobia and the challenge of regional integration in Africa: Understanding three cardinal dynamics, Acta Academica: Critical views on society, culture and politics, 54(2): 1-18.

Paalo, S. A., and Issifu, A. K. (2021). De-internationalizing hybrid peace: state-traditional authority collaboration and conflict resolution in Northern Ghana. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 15(3), 406-424.

Penu, D. A. K., and Paalo, S. A. (2021). Institutions and pastoralist conflicts in Africa: A conceptual framework. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 16(2), 224-241.

Paalo, S. A. (2021). A Systemic Understanding of Hybrid Peace: An Examination of Hybrid Political Orders in African Peace Governance. African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review, 11(1), 1-31.

Paalo, S. A. (2020). The politics of addressing farmer-herder conflicts in Ghana. Peacebuilding, 9(1), 79-99.

Boafo, J., Paalo, S. A., and Dotsey, S. (2019). Illicit Chinese small-scale mining in Ghana: Beyond institutional weakness? Sustainability, 11(21), 5943. 

Paalo, S. A. (2017). Political party youth wings and political violence in sub-Sahara Africa: A case of Ghana, International Journal of Peace and Development Studies, 8(1), 1-14.

Paalo, S. A. and Dramani, A. (forthcoming). The labyrinth of state intervention in communal conflict in Africa: Ghana’s maiden official state-led efforts in resolving the Bawku conflict, African Studies.

Paalo, S. A., Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Dramani, A. (forthcoming). COVID-19 governance, border closures, and emerging security risks in West Africa: A critique of pandemic-human security nexus, African Security.

Book chapters

Paalo, S. A., Banchani, J-P. S. (2025). “Foreign Military and Security Bases: Implications for the Practice of Peace and Security in Africa.” In Bah, A. B. (ed.) Glocalized Security: Domestic and External Issues in International Security (pp. 227- 256). New York: SUNY Press.

Paalo, S.A., Issifu, A.K. (2022). “De-internationalizing Hybrid Peace: State–Traditional Authority Collaboration and Conflict Resolution in Northern Ghana.” In: Spiegel, E., Mutalemwa, G., Liu, C., Kurtz, L.R. (eds) Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa. Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development. Springer, Cham. pp. 663–682.

Banchani, S. J-P and Paalo, S. A. (forthcoming). “Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD).” In Iroulo, L. and Boateng, O. (eds.) The Evolution of African Regional Organizations. Oxford University Press.

Paalo, S. A. and Banchani, S. J-P (under review). “Regionalism and endemic instability: How to (not) understand the illusion of regionalism dividends in Africa.” In Essays on Global Regionalism. United Nations University Press.

Policy Notes

Throp, H., Paalo, S. A., Oduro, K. A., Obeng, E. A., Guuroh, T. A., Andoh, J., Boudiaf, A., and Uehara, T. K. (2023). “Net-zero’s nature knot: A tug of war with rural realities”, Chatham House. https://forestgovernance.chathamhouse.org/publications/net-zeros-nature-knot-a-tug-of-war-with-rural-realities#:~:text=In%20the%20race%20to%20create,in%20forests%20and%20rural%20areas.

Boafo, J., Paalo, S. A. and Dotse, S. (2019). “Ghana’s traditional and state powers must collaborate to halt illegal mining”, The Conversation, 12 November 2019. https://theconversation.com/ghanas-traditional-and-state-powers-must-collaborate-to-halt-illegal-mining-126072.