• Invited Participant in the edited book volume “Whose Peace? Understanding Transitional Government in Africa with Routledge” Workshop hosted at Ghana, Accra on March 4 –7, 2024. The workshop was organized by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

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• “The Politics of Community Resilience to Armed Jihadism in West Africa,” Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS) for New Faces Conference in Chapel Hill, NorthCarolina, Invited Speaker, September 2023.

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• Sciences PO Centre De Research International Conference in Paris (in France), Topic "Not the praetorian alternatives we witnessed before." Analyses of the relations between the “security forces” and the society and elites beyond coups.

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• ​Invited Speaker and Paper Presented: "Politics of Community Radicalization in West Africa." May 2023.

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• Mali, Burkina Faso and the Role of the Jihadists Conflict in the Region, American Prestige, Presentation on the “State of the Sahel” w/Lamin Keita and Alex Thurston, January 18, 2023.

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• ​“Community Response to Radicalization in West Africa,” U.S. Embassy Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, July 2022.

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• ​“Politics of Community Resilience to Armed Jihadism in West Africa,” SSRC-IDRF 2022 Workshop, virtual gathering of the 2020-2021 Fellows, Final Research presentation of the findings from the fieldwork: Dissertation filed research topic presented, May 13, 2022.

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• “The Diaspora and the Political Change in Africa,” Northwestern University, Invited Speaker, Qatar, January 2021

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• “Politics of Insecurity and Civil Society Participation in Malian Politics,” 2021 American Political Science Association (APSA) annual conference, joint paper presented,
  September 30th, 2021.

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• “Authoritarian Breakdown in The Gambia,” Annual International AFRISEM Conference, Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, May 2019.

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• “The Role of Ethnic Inequality in Explaining Al-Qaeda’s Differential Success in Mali,” 25th Annual National Ronald E. McNair Research Conference and Graduate Fair, Lake Lawn Resort Delevan, Wisconsin, May 2017.

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• “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” Roland E. McNair Annual Conference, Washington DC / University of Maryland-Baltimore, September 23, 2016 – September 25, 2016.

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• ​“First Generation of College Students and the Legacy of Roland E. McNair Symposium,” 24th Annual Conference, University of Berkeley, California, August 2016.

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• ​“AL Qaeda’s differential Success in the Sahel,” Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP), Ohio State University, Columbus 2016.

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• “A New Politics of Human Rights,” Law School, Annual Research Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015.

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• “Post-Conflict, Culture and Integration of Society,” Rovinj, Croatia, University of Wisconsin Madison Study Abroad, July 2014.

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• “Immigration in the African American Awareness: Representation, Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 2014.