{"id":2136,"date":"2020-01-13T23:32:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T23:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2020-01-13T23:32:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T23:32:18","slug":"francis-abugbilla-on-rebuilding-peace-after-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/francis-abugbilla-on-rebuilding-peace-after-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Abugbilla on REBUILDING PEACE AFTER WAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">G<\/span>rowing up in northeastern Ghana, Francis Abugbilla witnessed regional conflict throughout his childhood. Two ethnic groups clashed repeatedly, dating back to pre-colonial times. Today, as a doctoral student in the UW\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/\">Jackson School of International Studies<\/a>, Abugbilla is working toward lasting solutions to such conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>That may be a tall order, but Abugbilla is no stranger to seemingly insurmountable challenges. Raised in a small farming community with no electricity, schools, or clinics, he walked hours a day to attend school in another village. He didn\u2019t encounter a computer until high school. But he excelled academically, and continued on to Ghana\u2019s University of Cape Coast to study French with a minor in English.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in northeastern Ghana, Francis Abugbilla witnessed regional conflict throughout his childhood. Two ethnic groups clashed repeatedly, dating back to pre-colonial times. Today, as a doctoral student in the UW\u2019s\u00a0Jackson School of International Studies, Abugbilla is working toward lasting solutions to such conflicts. That may be a tall order, but Abugbilla is no stranger<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/francis-abugbilla-on-rebuilding-peace-after-war\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":2137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Francis Abugbilla on REBUILDING PEACE AFTER WAR - African Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/francis-abugbilla-on-rebuilding-peace-after-war\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Francis Abugbilla on REBUILDING PEACE AFTER WAR - African Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Growing up in northeastern Ghana, Francis Abugbilla witnessed regional conflict throughout his childhood. 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