Aneliese Bernard

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Aneliese Bernard

Aneliese Bernard

@abernard

@stratstability & @elvateam | @Fletcherschool grad | prev @Statedept | Thoughts on politics are my own, tweets on Africa & terrorism are informed

Washington, DC Katılım Mart 2009
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Aneliese Bernard
Aneliese Bernard@abernard·
Since 2022 @ElvaTeam we've been doing quite a bit of research on the impacts of various issues that impact farmer and herding communities, to include: climate change, border fortification, latent communal tensions and emergent armed group violence. Here's a compiled thread:
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Strategic Stabilization Advisors@StratStability·
We’ve started a new blog series on Nigeria, looking at the drivers of conflict, the risk of regional spillover, and what growing U.S. security interest in the country could mean for policy in Africa based on the limited information we can gather in Washington🧵
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Strategic Stabilization Advisors@StratStability·
We've launched a blog! Read about how West Africa’s borderlands are dynamic spaces where trade, stability, and risk converge. Our inaugural blogpost explains why investors in frontier markets must pay attention to borderland trade, security and politics: stabilizationadvisors.com/blog/life-on-t…
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We're kicking off something new @StratStability. Check out our blog for insights from the field and highlights on the SSA families' research, thoughts and experiences working in fragile spaces and frontier markets. stabilizationadvisors.com/blog
Strategic Stabilization Advisors@StratStability

We've launched a blog! Read about how West Africa’s borderlands are dynamic spaces where trade, stability, and risk converge. Our inaugural blogpost explains why investors in frontier markets must pay attention to borderland trade, security and politics: stabilizationadvisors.com/blog/life-on-t…

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Strategic Stabilization Advisors@StratStability·
Proud to see our work in Benin featured in @Africa_In_EN Through civil-military committees under Benin's Operation Mirador, SSA is helping the army build trust with communities, curb jihadist recruitment, & safeguard border stability with @USSOCAF and @SpiritAmerica
Africa Intelligence@Africa_In_EN

BENIN | To block the influence of jihadist groups, the Beninese armed forces have set up local consultation structures in the north of the country. This initiative is supported by a handful of American partners. ➡️ l.africaintelligence.fr/nh

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Aneliese Bernard@abernard·
Women’s inclusion in the armed forces is not about gender and diversity. It’s about ensuring militaries are modernized, operationally ready to deal with insurgencies, and adaptive. Dismissing #WPS importance is really ignorant to how #women play critical roles in natsec
Strategic Stabilization Advisors@StratStability

How do female soldiers shape trust, legitimacy, and security coordination in northern Benin? SSA x SOCAF’s new study explores gender dynamics in the armed forces — where it matters most. DM us to discuss. #WPS #SSA #SOCAF #Benin #SecuritySectorReform

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Aneliese Bernard@abernard·
@MuzlamicMask @guardian The “disinfo” discourse. Not exactly a discourse as you aptly say. But the disinfo about Traoré is gaining a lot of traction outside the Sahel particularly among young people even students. It’s not to be ignored
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Mulatham🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦@MuzlamicMask·
@abernard @guardian Of course there are the Russian trolls and AI slop posters who think Traore is the messiah (lol), but I don’t even think of that as discourse anymore. It’s about as grounded in reality as Flat Earthism.
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Aneliese Bernard@abernard·
I spoke with the @guardian in this piece. One line that stands out to me, as understated and incredibly true: 'The recent success of JNIM may be less a result of its own strength than the weaknesses of its opponents." theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…
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Aneliese Bernard@abernard·
@guardian ...While the US and France were hugely unsuccessful in Sahel counterterrorism, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso are significantly less secure, frankly I'd say they are failed states, under the AES framework.
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@guardian There's a trending topic in certain discourses right now that the regimes in the Sahel are capably repelling jihadist threats, in the absence of Western security assistance...
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Strategic Stabilization Advisors@StratStability·
As our Director, @abernard explains, JNIM continues to expand undeterred from the northern Sahel, where the group first emerged in the mid-2000s, now into more stable states in Coastal West Africa...
The Washington Post@washingtonpost

After years spent quietly gaining strength, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin is now the most well-armed militant force in West Africa. No one knows when its fighters will strike next — or where they plan to stop. wapo.st/43D8uV2

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Rachel Chason@Rachel_Chason·
.@abernard said the group has metastasized to such an extent that it now “directly impacts [U.S.] national security.” And, she added, “they are expanding undeterred into the countries we have long considered robust security partners.”
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Aneliese Bernard@abernard·
#womenpeacesecurity - or #WPS - is not about diversity hires. It’s about addressing the fact that women are critical to security, because women can also be contributors to insecurity. Cutting this program is simply ignorant, and a huge setback to better military readiness.
Amy McGrath@AmyMcGrathKY

WPS program helped to bring women to the negotiating tables to end violent conflicts around the world… Why? Because actual data shows that when women are included, more sustainable peace is more likely. The cost to DOD was about $5 mil a year (BTW that's 1/14th of the cost of the F-18 now with the fish the Red Sea).

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Aneliese Bernard@abernard·
@ElvaTeam 3) A social network analysis of ethnic-Fulbe groups, with an emphasis on transhumant Fulbe, in Ghana, conducted by the Dr. Kaderi Bukari at the University of Cape Coast, with support from Elva. elva.org/wp-content/upl…
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Aneliese Bernard
Aneliese Bernard@abernard·
@ElvaTeam 2) 2023 study on Transhumance violence and socio-economics and politics in Atakora, Benin that led to informed USAID programming: elva.org/wp-content/upl… x.com/abernard/statu…
Aneliese Bernard@abernard

Excited to share Elva's latest research on insecurity and violent extremism in #Benin's Atakora department, supported by @USAIDOTI & @USAIDWestAfrica. The full report is available for download on our website, elva.org/news/atakora-a…. Now for a 🧵 on key findings: 1/

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Aneliese Bernard
Aneliese Bernard@abernard·
Since 2022 @ElvaTeam we've been doing quite a bit of research on the impacts of various issues that impact farmer and herding communities, to include: climate change, border fortification, latent communal tensions and emergent armed group violence. Here's a compiled thread:
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