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Joshua Akintayo
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology
We extend a warm welcome to our new postdoc. At the beginning of the year, the chair announced two postdoctoral positions as part of the project “Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict: New Forms of Security Governance and Peacebuilding.” The first two-year position, on the topic of “South-South security arrangements and practices,” has been filled by Joshua Akintayo, PhD.
Joshua Akintayo completed his PhD at the University of Kent and holds an MSc from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Akintayo’s research focuses on security, (counter-)terrorism, including Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (PCVE), conflict-related sexual violence, and peacebuilding. Taking a critical perspective, he examines both top-down and bottom-up dimensions of these issues, with particular attention to their governance, practices, transformations, and consequences in Nigeria and across Africa. His work has been published in leading journals such as the European Journal of International Security, International Studies Perspectives, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Peacebuilding, and Conflict, Security & Development. We are very pleased to have Akintayo join our team and look forward to the insights and perspectives he will bring to the project and the wider research environment at the Chair over the coming two years.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology
Where the far-right is not: critical terrorism studies and the epistemological limits of far-right extremism in non-Western contexts. Critical Studies on Terrorism. 2026-07-10 | DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2026.2699557.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology
Publications
2026
Sandor, Adam; Frowd, Philippe; Hönke, Jana
Productive Failure, African agency, and security cooperation in West Africa : The case of the G ...
in European Journal of International Security volume 11 (2026) issue 1. - page 58-76
doi:10.1017/eis.2025.8 ...
2025
Sandor, Adam; Berlingozzi, Laura
Grassroots geopolitical imaginaries in the Sahel : Civil society security narratives in Burkina ...
in Geopolitics (2025)
doi:10.1080/14650045.2025.2498381 ...
2023
McCullough, Aoife; Sandor, Adam
Briefing: How a Mutiny became A(nother) Coup : The Politics of Counterinsurgency and Internatio ...
in African Affairs volume 122 (2023) issue 489. - page 587-601
doi:10.1093/afraf/adad034 ...
2021
Sandor, Adam
Elite Bargains and Political Deals in Mali's Transition
London, UK, : Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2021
2020
Sandor, Adam
The power of rumour(s) in international interventions: MINUSMA's management of Mali's rumour mi ...
in International Affairs volume 96 (2020) issue 4. - page 913-934
doi:10.1093/ia/iiaa092 ...
Malejacq, Romain; Sandor, Adam
Sahelistan? Military Intervention and Patronage Politics in Afghanistan and Mali
in Civil Wars volume 22 (2020) issue 4. - page 543-566
doi:10.1080/13698249.2020.1813405 ...
Sandor, Adam
Turning point? Mali's potential dialogue with Jihadists
in Bulletin FrancoPaix volume 5 (2020) issue 2. - page 7-9
https://dandurand.uqam.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/ ...
2019
Gelot, Linnéa; Sandor, Adam
African Security and Global Militarism : Introduction
in Conflict, Security & Development volume 19 (2019) issue 6. - page 521-542
doi:10.1080/14678802.2019.1688959 ...
2019
Sandor, Adam
Institutions for Peace in Mali : Learning from Peacebuilding in Niger
Montréal, 2019
https://dandurand.uqam.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/ ...
Sandor, Adam; Campana, Aurélie
Les groupes djihadistes au Mali, entre violence, recherche de légitimité et politiques locales ...
in Canadian Journal of African Studies = Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines volume 53 (2019) issue 3. - page 415-430
doi:10.1080/00083968.2019.1667838 ...
Charbonneau, Bruno; Sandor, Adam
Power and Comparative Methods : Performing the Worlds of Armed Conflict
in Civil Wars volume 21 (2019) issue 4. - page 437-447
doi:10.1080/13698249.2019.1706144 ...
2018
Abrahamsen, Rita; Sandor, Adam
The Global South and International Security
The Oxford Handbook of International Security
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018. - page 382-396 . - (Oxford Handbooks)
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198777854.013.25 ...
Frowd, Philippe M.; Sandor, Adam
Militarism and its limits : Sociological insights on security assemblages in the Sahel
in Security Dialogue volume 49 (2018) issue 1-2. - page 70-82
doi:10.1177/0967010617739534 ...
Shahar, Hameiri; Jones, Lee; Sandor, Adam
Security Governance and the Politics of State Transformation : Moving from Description to Expla ...
in Journal of Global Security Studies volume 3 (2018) issue 4. - page 463-482
doi:10.1093/jogss/ogy024 ...
2018
Charbonneau, Bruno; Sandor, Adam; Sears, Jonathan
Stabiliser le Mali : Les Défis de la Résolution des Conflits
Montréal, 2018
https://base.afrique-gouvernance.net/docs/2018_06_ ...
Sandor, Adam
World Drug Day and Visual Rituals of Security in West Africa
Visual Security Studies : Sights and Spectacles of Insecurity and War
London : Routledge, 2018. - page 91-113
2017
Sandor, Adam
Insecurity, the Breakdown of Social Trust, and Armed Actor Governance in Central and Northern M ...
Montréal, 2017
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52 ...
2016
Sandor, Adam
4x4s
Making Things International 2 : Catalysts and Reactions
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016. - page 338-355
Sandor, Adam
Border Security and Drug Trafficking in Senegal : AIRCOP and Global Security Assemblages
in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding volume 10 (2016) issue 4. - page 490-512
doi:10.1080/17502977.2016.1240425 ...
Sandor, Adam
Tightly Packed : Disciplinary Power, the UNODC, and the Container Control Programme in Dakar
in African Studies Review volume 59 (2016) issue 2. - page 133-160
doi:10.1017/asr.2016.33 ...
2016
Charbonneau, Bruno; Goffi, Emmanuel; Sandor, Adam; Sears, Jonathan; Tourreille, Julien
Quels futurs pour le maintien de la paix et la gouvernance sécuritaire en Afrique? Ordre, viole ...
Montréal, : Centre FrancoPaix en Résolution des Conflits et Missions de Paix, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), 2016. - 38 page . - (Rapport d’analyse FrancoPaix; 2)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology
Joshua Akintayo
Research Associate
Email: Joshua.Akintayo@uni-bayreuth.de