Media Contributions

 On the Sahel:

Wilén, Nina, BBC Africa Focus, “Mali: UN Peacekeeping mandate to expire”, 30 June 2023, available here.

Wilén Nina, El Periódico: “La receta europea: 150.000 millones para contrarrestar la influencia china y rusa en África”, 4 March 2023, available here.

Wilén, Nina, Information, “Danske styrker forlod Mali for et år siden – nu er der frygt for et islamisk militaerdiktatur” 13 February 2023, available here.

Wilén Nina, Institut Montaigne: “La difficile montée en puissance des armées sahéliennes”, 23 February 2023, available here.

Wilén, Nina, Masuhr, Nikas, Nantulya, Paul,  “Why do some African governments want to work with Russia’s Wagner Group?”, The Hundred, 15 December 2022, available here.

Wilén, Nina, “Nina Wilén: Future of the European Engagement in Sahel”, Security Outlines (formerly Sekuritaci.cz), 14 December 2022, available here.

Wilén, Nina, WRC18 podcast: “Women reporting on some of the world’s 18 conflict regions” with Nishat Ahmet, WRC18, 7 October 2022, available here.

Wilén, Nina, “Security Force Assistance in the Sahel is meddling with borders”, London School of Economics and Political Science, Africa at LSE blog, 20 September 2022, available here.

Wilén, Nina, Institut Montaigne: “The Intervention Question: Lessons to Learn from Europe’s Military Presence in the Sahel: Three Questions to Nina Wilén”, 6 May 2022, available here.

Wilén, Nina, New Books Network podcast: “African Peacekeeping” with Jonathan Fisher, New Books Network, 4 April 2022, available here.

Wilén, Nina, France 24, interview: France ends Military operation in Mali after decade-long jihadist fight, 18 February 2022, available here.

Wilén, Nina, LN 24, Interview: Le Mag Inter: Quels sont les enjeux au Sahel?, 2 February 2022, available here.

Wilén, Nina, Saferworld’s War pod: “Recalibrating External Interventions in the Sahel” with Ornella Moderan, ISS, Délina Goxho, Abigail Watson, Safer World, 18 June 2021, available here.

 On Burundi

Wilén, Nina, “The World Turned Away From Burundi, but Its Crisis Is Getting Worse”, World Politics Review, 28 April 2017, available here.

Wilén, Nina, “African Union Intervention Could Do More Harm Than Good in Burundi”, World Politics Review, 5 January 2016, accessible here.

Wilén, Nina, “Ongoing Violence in Burundi Raises Prospect of Outside Intervention”, World Politics Review, 3 November 2015 accessible here.

Wilén, Nina, “Burundi’s Crisis Could Spill Over Borders as Armed Rebellion Grows”, World Politics Review, 23 July 2015, accessible here.

Wilén, N., Birantamije, G., “Contributor Profile: Burundi”, IPI, Providing for Peacekeeping Project, version 25 June 2015 accessible here.

Wilén, Nina, “Burundi’s Military Still Key to Stability Amid Political Crisis”, World Politics Review, 2 June 2015 accessible here.

Wilén, N., Birantamije, G., Ambrosetti, D., “Is Burundi still a credible peacekeeper?”, Monkey Cage, Washington Post, 23 May 2015, accessible here.

Wilén, Nina, “Burundi crisis: The Military’s Central Role”, Centre for Security Governance, 16 May 2015, available here.

 In Swedish:

Wilén, Nina, “Burundi pa kanten till nytt inbördeskrig”, Utrikesmagasinet, 28 June 2016, available here.

Wilén, Nina, “Våldtäkter i krig en svårlöst brutalitet”, Svenska Dagbladet, 22 September 2014 accessible here.

Wilén, Nina, “Svindlande resor till gamla och nya Afrika”, Svenska Dagbladet, 19 November 2013 accessible here.

Wilén, Nina, “Stor risk att Syrien blir nytt Kongo”, Svenska Dagbladet, 7 September 2013 accessible here.

Wilén, Nina, “Naturrikedomar bakom Kongos tragiska öde”, Svenska Dagbladet, 30 January 2013 accessible here.

Wilén, Nina, ”Nej från FN kan utlösa nytt krig”, Sydsvenskan, 15 December 2011 accessible here.

Miscellaneous:

Wilén, Nina, Heinecken, Lindy, “Women now make up almost 24 percent of South Africa’s military. Why aren’t they treated equally?”. Monkey Cage, Washington Post, 1 August 2018, available here.

Wilén, Nina, Ingelaere, Bert, “War-torn Congo has been called the ‘rape capital of the world.’ Here is how fighters think about sexual violence”. Monkey Cage, Washington Post, 31 August 2017, available here.

Wilén, Nina, “Interventions and the (de)stabilizing of sovereignty in Africa”, Democracy in Africa, 22 June 2016, accessible here.

Wilén, Nina, “How to unite enemy fighters into a single national army (and what that means for peace), Monkey Cage, Washington Post, 11 November 2015 accessible here.

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