Journal Articles

Paalo, S. A., Degraft Arthur, D., Dramani, A., & Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2023). Exploring hybrid security strategies in Ghana: State and private sector partnerships. African Security Review, 1-17.

Paalo, S. A., Adu-Gyamfi, S., and  Arthur, D. D. (2023). Nationalist secessionism and global order: A comparison of the dynamics and impact of secession movements in Africa and Europe. Nations and Nationalism.

Dramani, A., Paalo, S. A., and 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.

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.

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.

Adu-Gyamfi, S., Paalo, S. A., Brenya, E., Arthur, D. D., and Letsu, J. M. (2021). Rethinking the influence of colonialism on secession in Africa: The case of the western Togoland independence movement in Ghana. The Australasian Review of African Studies, 42(2), 4-25.

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

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 State-building, 15 (3), 406–424.

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

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. 

Ashaba, I. M., Paalo, S. A. and Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2019). State Fragility, Regime Survival and Spoilers in South Sudan, Kervan-Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 23(1), 77-99. 

Paalo, S.A. and Gyampo, R.E.V. (2019). Campus Politics and Intra-Party Vote Buying in Ghana: How Political Mentorship Could Destruct. Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 7(2), 51?64.

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.

Book Chapters

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.

Paalo, S. A. and Banhani, J-P. S. (forthcoming). “Foreign Military and Security Bases and the Practice Of Peace and Security in Africa.” In Bah, A. B. (ed.) Glocalized Security: Domestic and external issues in international security [Chapter 7].

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.

Selected conferences, seminars, and Summer schools

Banchani, S. J-P. and Paalo, S. A. (2023). Workshop on The Evolution of African Regional Organizations, Georgetown University Qatar (Doha), Paper presented: “The Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)”, January 29-30, 2023.

Paalo, S. A. and Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2022). Conference on Stereotyping in Africa: Root causes, consequences, and Solutions, by The British Academy and Department of History and Political Studies, KNUST, paper presented: “Understanding stereotypes and the violence of Western universalism in pandemic governance: A case of the Madagascar COVID Organic”, November 9-10, 2022.

Paalo, S. A. (2021).  Global Minority Rights Summer School 2021, “Conflict Prevention and the Human Rights of Minorities”, by the Tom Lantos Institute (TLI, Budapest-Hungary), the National University of Public Service (NUPS, Budapest-Hungary), the Human Rights Consortium (University of London), and Minority Rights Group International. Paper presented: “Language governance, linguistic discrimination, and the question of linguistic minorities in Ghana’s educational system” Online, July 5-16, 2021.

Adu-Gyamfi, S., Paalo, S. A., Arthur, D. D (2021). Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference, “unilateralism, nationalism, and globalism—the ‘isms’ these schisms create.” Paper presented: “Nationalism, separatism and the pursuit of international peace: A comparative study of nationalist movements in Africa and Europe”, February 10, 2021, Nova Southeastern University, Florida, United States.

Co-convener, and discussant:  University of Queensland School of Political Science and International Studies and African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) collaborated seminar. Theme: ‘Political Violence in Africa: The Role of Political Parties’, 29 October 2019, POLSIS, UQ, Australia.

Paalo, S. A. (2016). Oxford University Research Colloquium. Paper "Dangerous Mentorship? Assessing the relationship between Political Party Youth Wings and Political Violence in Sub-Sahara Africa: A Case of Ghana", 17 November 2016, St. Antony's College, Oxford University, UK.  

Co-convener and discussant:  Oxford Network for Peace (Oxpeace) Ninth Annual Conference. Theme: ‘Positive    Peace: Concepts and Practice’, 6 May 2017, St John’s College, Oxford University, UK.

Co-convener and facilitator: 2nd Biennial Kwame Nkrumah International Conference (KNIC2). Theme: ‘Africa’s Many Divides and Africa’s Future’, KNUST in collaboration with Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Canada) and African Studies Association, 21-24 September 2012, KNUST, Kumasi.