Publications

Vlavonou, Gino (with Annalisa Bolin and Tatiana Carayannis). 2024. “A Day Without Global North Researchers: Making Space for Equitable Collaboration after COVID” Qualitative Research 24, no. 6: 1353–1369.

Vlavonou, Gino (with Louisa Lombard): “Radical Autochthony? Proprietary Political Discourse Among Elites and Peasants in the Anti Balaka Armed Movement in the Central African Republic“ African Studies Review 67, no.1: 67–85.

Vlavonou, Gino (with Marion Laurence and Caroline Duton). 2023. “‘Pragmatic’ Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 17, no.3: 215-234.

Vlavonou, Gino. 2023. “Negotiating Positionality as a Student and Researcher in Africa: Understanding how seniority and race mediate elite interviews in African fieldwork.” International Studies Review 25, no.1. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viac064

Vlavonou, Gino (with Laura Collins). 2021. “A Minority in Conflict: Muslim Communities, State Interaction, and Patterns of Exclusion in the Central African Republic” Islamic Africa 12, no. 2: 186–210.

Vlavonou, Gino. 2021. “On Disciplinary Encounters: IR and Fieldwork.” Journal of Narrative Politics 8, no. 1: 10-14.

Vlavonou, Gino. 2021. “Building the “Kingdom of God” in the Central African Republic: Trajectories and Strategies for Success Beyond the Traditional Bangui Elite” Africa Today 67 no. 2–3: 129–149.

Vlavonou, Gino (with Adib Bencherif). 2020. “Reflexive Tension: An Auto-Ethnographic Journey through the discipline of International Relations in Western Academic Training“ African Identities 19, no. 4 : 453-472. 

Vlavonou, Gino. 2019. “APSA and (complex) international security regime: a critique.” African Security 12, no. 1: 87-110. 

Vlavonou, Gino. 2016. “The uncertain transition: Security, violence and neopatrimonialism in CAR.” Revue Tiers Monde 228, no. 4: 121-142.

Vlavonou, Gino. 2016. “Adaptation « de facto » ou retour à l’envoyeur? L’aide déliée en débat.” Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, Fall 2016, no. 3 : 1-16.

Vlavonou, Gino. 2016. “La guerre civile en république centrafricaine: de l’exclusion des élites à la cooptation des groupes armés.” Potentia: Journal of International and Public Affairs, no. 7: 42-53.

Vlavonou, Gino. 2014. “Understanding the “failure” of the Séléka rebellion.” African Security Review 23, no. 3: 318-326. 

Gino Vlavonou. 2021. “Skin Connections: Negotiating Institutional Ethics alongside Insider Identities.” in Field Research in Africa: The Ethics of Researcher Vulnerabilities. Eds. An Ansoms, Aymar Nyenyezi, Susan Thomson, 11-28. James Currey. 

Vlavonou, Gino. 2021. “Militarism and Political Elitism Challenge Peace in the Central African Republic.” ACCORD COVID-19 Conflict & Resilience Monitor no. 9. 

Vlavonou, Gino. 2019. “La Centrafrique : Un conflit mouvant entre rupture et continuité.” Diplomatie: Affaires Stratégiques et Relations Internationales, no. 48 : 75-77. 

Contribution to, “Country Analysis: Kenya.” ISS Africa, Peace and Security Council Report, Issue N°52, November 2013.

Vlavonou, Gino. 2013. “l’Union Africaine entre moyens financiers limités et ambitions élevées.” Regard Critique no. 8 (3), October.

Vlavonou, Gino. 2021. “Militarism and Political Elitism Challenge Peace in the Central African Republic.” ACCORD COVID-19 Conflict & Resilience Monitor no. 9. 

Vlavonou, Gino & Rita Abrahamsen. 2019. “Making an Impact in the Central African Republic: Options for Canada’s Peace Support Role” Impact Policy Brief. 

Vlavonou, Gino. 2014. “Africa is failing the Responsibility to Protect its citizens”, Pambazuka News, Issue 668. 

Vlavonou, Gino. 2013. “ICC: Does Politics win over Justice”, Pambazuka News, Issue 650.

Vlavonou, Gino. 2013. “Have sub-regional organisations overpromised but under-delivered on the Great Lakes?” ISS Today.

Vlavonou, Gino. 2023. Review of the book African Identities and International Politics, by Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere. London: Routledge, 2023 XVI + 159 pp. open access (e-book). ISBN: 978-1-003-17673-2, 2023 Yearbook on the African Union. 

Vlavonou, Gino. 2021. Review of the book Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic, by Louisa Lombard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 253 pp. CAD$114.95 (hardback). ISBN: 9781108478779, Africa Spectrum 

Vlavonou, Gino. 2018. Review of the book State of rebellion: Violence and intervention in the Central African Republic, by Louisa Lombard. London: Zed Books, 2016. xv + 288 pp. $38.42 (paperback). ISBN: 978 1 78360 884 3, African Affairs 117, no. 467: 342–343.