Dr Juweria Ali’s research interests focus on critical international relations theory and practice, and the politics of nation and state-building in the Horn of Africa. She was a Research Fellow at the University of Westminster’s Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD), where she completed her PhD. She was a founding member of the Hankaal Institute in Jigjiga, Ethiopia.

Hallelujah Lulie is PhD Candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford studying the nexus between nationalism and citizenship in the Horn of Africa. His research interest include democratization, governance and social movements. Prior to that, he was a senior visiting policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Hallelujah headed the Institute of Foreign Affairs (IFA), Ethiopian government’s prime strategic policy think-tank for more than a year and he was member of the policy advising team at the Office of the Prime Minster of Ethiopia.