James' research examines the European Union's role in the prevention of conflicts in Africa, with special attention on the extent to which the range of instruments and efforts deployed by the EU have actually enhanced African local ownership or not, at the continental and sub-regional, national and local levels. His work voices the need for robust coordination and cooperation in the area of inter-regional and multilateral cooperation in building and strengthening regimes, systems and constellations of security in Africa which prioritize preventive as opposed to reactive responses to conflicts.
Alongside his research work, James tutors on bachelors programmes in the departments of politics and public administration and sociology, and occasionally on the Masters programme in Peace and Development studies, at the University of Limerick. He has served as visiting lecturer on the Masters programme on Human rights and Conflict Management (African Regional Human Rights System) at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Studi Universitari e di Perferzionamento - a leading Italian University in the area of conflict management. He has been consulted (on short term basis) by institutions such as Irish Aid (2009 Africa day planning), and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Peacekeeping Training Unit (2010), and the Pan-African Institute for Development-West Africa, in the design and review of training packages on various dimensions of peacekeeping operations, human rights, humanitarian action, and peace building to name a few. He provisionally sits on the board of the Centre of Peace and Development Studies (as one of two student reps), at the department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick, and he is a member of the European Doctoral Enhancement Network in Peace and Conflict Studies.
James-Emmanuel Wanki
Wanki, James E. (2011) 'Disarming War, Arming Peace: Dag Hammarskjold's Legacy and the Future
Role of MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of Congo'. African Journal of Conflict Resolution: Special Issue on Southern Africa 50 years after Dag Hammarskjold. Vol.11, No.1(July)
Wanki, James E. (2011) 'Whose DDR? (Re)-Examining the Questions of Empowerment and Local Ownership in Selected Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Endeavours in the Democratic
Republic of Congo'. Journal of Human Security Perspectives. Vol. 1, Sept.
Mantey, Mark and Wanki, James E. (2011) A Comparison of Water Policy Formulation and Implementation
Processes: The Case of Ghana and Ireland, Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG
Sah, A.,N and Wanki, James.,E(2011) Women, Changing Climates and Changing Agricultural Yield: An Exploration of Selected Cases in Santa, North-western Cameroon, Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG
Wanki, James E. (2008) 'From Margin to Centre: The Emerging China, Sino-African Relations and Prospects for Sustainable Development in Africa'. European Association for Development Research and Training
Institutes (EADI) Post-conference Publication, Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.eadi.org/fileadmin/Documents/
Forthcoming Publications
Wanki, James E. 'Counting Votes that don't Count: Electoral Malpractices and the Travails of Democratisation in Cameroon' (forthcoming)
Wanki, James E. ' Transformed by Wars: ECOWAS, Conflicts, Regionalisation and the Search for Enhanced
Security in a Troubled West Africa'(forthcoming)
Wanki, James E. 'EU-ECOWAS Security Interregionalism: Addressing the 'Donorship'-Ownership Paradox'(forthcoming)
Wanki, James E. and Kah, Henry ' Strongmen, Weak Institutions: The Personalisation of Power, Democratic Deficits and the Governance Challenge in the Central African Sub-region' (forthcoming)