Arsène Brice Bado

Arsène Brice Bado is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and International Relations at the Centre de Recherche et d’Action pour la Paix (CERAP) in Côte d’Ivoire. Prior to his time at CERAP, Bado was a Southern Voices Network Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He was also a visiting researcher at Yale University and was the 2017-2018 Anna and Donald Waite Endowed Chair at Creighton University. Arsène’s work is widely published, and he is an author and editor. His research interests include democracy, ethnic pluralism, conflict analysis, forced migration, electoral processes in conflict-ridden societies, and foreign aid in Africa. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy, Socio-Anthropology, and Theology, and Master’s Degrees in Social Ethics, International Human Rights Law, and Socio-Anthropology. He obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from Laval University in Canada.