Omar M Bah

Associate Fellow

Omar Bah is an Asso­ciate Fellow at PRIF and Re­searcher in the project Local per­ceptions of regional inter­ventions: AU and ECOWAS in Burkina Faso and The Gambia. Besides that, he is political science lecturer at the Uni­versity of The Gambia. His main research interest focuses on topics of security, con­flict and politics in the ECOWAS region.

Omar M Bah

CV

| since 2021
Associate Fellow at PRIF; Researcher in the project “Local per­ceptions of regional inter­ventions: AU and ECOWAS in Burkina Faso and The Gambia”

| since 2020
Lecturer, Political Science and Political Philo­sophy as well as Inter­national Relations, Depart­ment of Political Science, Uni­versity of the Gambia (UTG)

| 2019
Master, Inter­national Relations and Diplo­macy, University of the Gambia (UTG)

| 2017–2020
Adjunct lecturer, Political Science and Inter­national Relations, Manage­ment Develop­ment Institute (MDI)

| 2017–2020
Graduate assistant, Depart­ment of Political Science, Uni­versity of the Gambia (UTG)

| 2017
Bachelor of Science, Political Science, Uni­versity of the Gambia (UTG)

Projects

Publications

  • How African Regional Interventions are Peceived on the Ground: Contestation and Multiplexity
    | 2024
    Witt, Antonia; Bah, Omar M; Birchinger, Sophia; Jaw, Sait Matty; Schnabel, Simone (2024): How African Regional Interventions are Peceived on the Ground: Contestation and Multiplexity, International Peacekeeping, 31: 1, 58–86. DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2023.2262922
  • Heimvorteil?
    | 2022
    Witt, Antonia; Bah, Omar M; Birchinger, Sophia; Jaw, Sait Matty; Schnabel, Simone (2022): Heimvorteil?. Lokale Perspektiven auf die Friedensbemühungen afrikanischer Regionalorganisationen, Forschung Frankfurt, 2022: 1, 30–34.
    Publication

  • “Siding with the people” or “Occupying force”? Local perceptions of African Union and ECOWAS interventions in the Gambia
    | 2023
    Birchinger, Sophia; Jaw, Sait Matty; Bah, Omar M; Witt, Antonia (2023): “Siding with the people” or “Occupying force”? Local perceptions of African Union and ECOWAS interventions in the Gambia, PRIF Report, 3, Frankfurt/M. DOI: 10.48809/prifrep2303
  • #GambiaDecides2021: A Sign of Democratic Hope?
    | 2021
    Bah, Omar M; Jaw, Sait Matty; Birchinger, Sophia (2021): #GambiaDecides2021: A Sign of Democratic Hope?, PRIF Blog.
    Publication