Ibrahim Sakawa Magara

Ibrahim Sakawa Magara is a Ph.D. candidate in Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University, UK. His research critically examines regional conflict management in Africa, focusing on the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) peace mediation in South Sudan. He problematizes liberal peacebuilding approaches and explores hybrid peace theory through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), emphasizing power dynamics and structural issues in regional peacemaking.

• Key Themes: Liberal peace critique, power contestations, structural analysis, hybridity in peace processes.
• Methodology: Employs Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis to assess IGAD’s mediation discourse.
• Contributions: Challenges international-local binaries, bridges top-down and bottom-up peacemaking strategies, and advances post-liberal peace debates.

The study, situated within interpretivist epistemology, aims to enhance theoretical and practical understandings of conflict management in East Africa and beyond, addressing geopolitical power contestations and pragmatic solutions for sustainable peace.