This summer, images of drought, famine and people queuing for food aid in the Horn of Africa have reappeared on television screens and in newspapers worldwide. Across large parts of the region, livestock are dying in huge numbers because they cannot get water and pasture. The international community and celebrities launch aid appeals in a crisis that is compounded by conflict in Somalia and the presence of terror groups supposedly linked to Al-Qaeda. But are this crisis in the Horn of Africa, and the local as well as international response to it, something new? What are the causes, and what is really at stake?

Through a series of four public lectures by scholars, journalists and aid professionals with substantial experience in the region, the Conflict Research Group proposes to look beyond the headlines and emotions.

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