Idriss Lahai

This book investigates gender equality and women’s empowerment in Sierra Leone, focusing in particular on women’s interactions with the state and its development partners.

John Idriss Lahai is a scholar in applied international development, gender and women studies, transitional justice and human rights, multi-level governance in fragile states, refugee and migration studies, human geography, regional planning, and peace and conflict studies. He is the author of over a dozen books published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan, among other internationally recognized academic publishing houses. He is currently an affiliate of the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities and The Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS) of the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Lahai sits on the advisory board of Rowman & Littlefield’s newly constituted book series ＂Migration, Displacement, and Development.＂ He has consulted/worked for several governments and international agencies (working on mitigating state fragility in the Global South).