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2025, September 20. OpEd, Prof. Sultan Barakat and Prof. McCandless, Ceremony over substance: Gaza鈥檚 鈥榙ay after鈥� demands more. Mail & Gaurdian

When President Donald Trump arrived in Tel Aviv, on Monday 13 October and later in Sharm el-Sheikh, for the 2025 Gaza Peace Summit, he presented nothing less than a 鈥渉istoric dawn of a new Middle East鈥�. His plan, unveiled with international fanfare, envisioned Gaza transformed from a war-torn enclave into a regional hub of reconstruction and renewal 鈥� a peace that would 鈥渆nd 3 000 years of conflict鈥�. Addressing the Israeli Knesset, Trump cast the US as the indispensable broker of a breakthrough unlike any before.

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2025, September 10. Press interview with Prof. McCandless, Radio Islam: Trump Issues 鈥楲ast Warning鈥� to Hamas to Accept Gaza Ceasefire Deal.

The episode covers comments made by Donald鈥疶rump, issuing what he calls a 鈥渓ast warning鈥� to Hamas to accept a cease-fire deal regarding the Gaza鈥疭trip situation. The narration by host Erin鈥疢cCandless explores the stakes of the deal and Trump鈥檚 stance amid the ongoing conflict.

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2025, July 10. OpEd, Prof. McCandless, Can Africa Rewrite the Rules of Global Power? Daily Maverick.

The dominant portrayal of Africa as a crisis-ridden victim must give way to recognition of the continent as a strategic actor with the moral authority and institutional creativity to reshape the global order.

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2025, May 14.聽Press interview with Prof. McCandless, Channel Africa (SABC): Ramaphosa, Trump, to Meet in Washington to Mend Ties

South Africa (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa and his United States (US) counterpart, Donald Trump, are set to hold a high-level in-person meeting in Washington this month, aimed at restoring diplomatic and trade relations between the two countries. The two leaders are expected to discuss a wide range of diplomatic and trade relations, including the recent arrival of 49 white Afrikaners who claim to be fleeing racial persecution in SA. Tsepiso Makwetla spoke to Professor Erin McCandless, Acting Director of the Qatar-SA Centre for Peace and Intercultural Understanding at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg and Senior Associate Fellow at Global Institute for Strategic Research.

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2025, February 28. Pathways to Peace in a Complex World: Ramaphosa, Trump, and Avoiding a Dialogue of the Deaf. Conflict & Resilience Monitor, ACCORD. Article by Prof Erin McCandless

As South African President Cyril Ramaphosa prepares to dispatch envoys to engage with the United States (US) and other world capitals, South Africa stands at a crossroads in global diplomacy. Its vision of multilateralism guided by principles of peace, solidarity and equality 鈥� shared by many nations 鈥� contrasts sharply from the nationalist exceptionalism shaping US President Donald Trump鈥檚 agenda.

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Educational exclusion and women鈥檚 participation in peace building in South Sudan

Adeogun, T. and Rowland, E. (2025), 鈥淓ducational exclusion and women鈥檚 participation in peace building in South Sudan鈥�, International Journal of Development and Sustainability, Vol. 14 No. 11, pp. 894-913.

Climate change, migration and conflict in the Niger Delta: A qualitative study of the poly-crisis nexus

Rowlands, E. and Eze, P. (2025), 鈥淐limate change, migration and conflict in the Niger Delta: A qualitative study of the poly-crisis nexus鈥�, International Journal of Development and Sustainability, Vol. 14 No. 10, pp. 857-874.

A phoenix rising? Gaza and a growing movement to realise a just and principle-based international order.

McCandless, E. (2025). A phoenix rising? Gaza and a growing movement to realise a just and principle-based international order.聽Third World Quarterly, 1鈥�22. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2488498