Arsène Brice Bado, Ph.D., is assistant professor of political science and international relations at CERAP/Université Jésuite in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Prior to his time at CERAP, Bado was a Southern Voices Network (SVN) Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, in 2015. He was also a visiting researcher at Yale University during the 2014-2015 academic year, and the 2017-2018 Anna and Donald Waite Endowed Chair at Creighton University in Omaha, USA. His research interests include democracy, ethnic pluralism, conflict analysis, forced migration, electoral processes in conflict-ridden societies, and environmental issues. His publications have appeared in the Journal of International Migration and Integration, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Mediterranean Politics, Revue Études, Revue Relations, and La Civiltà Cattolica. In addition, he has contributed chapters to several books. He is the editor of Dynamiques des guerres civiles en Afrique: Une approche holiste, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2015 ; and La citoyenneté mondiale et l’écocitoyenneté dans le contexte de la crise sanitaire à Covid-19, Abidjan : Editions du CERAP, 2022. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Laval University in Canada in 2016.