The upcoming elections in Nigeria are particularly important for young people, women and the population in unstable regions, explains Medinat Malefakis, an expert on security, terrorism and peacebuilding, at the federal technology institute ETH Zurich. But for the 17 million Nigerians who, like Malefakis, live outside Nigeria, this election is also associated with hope. Medinat Malefakis Dr Medinat Abdulazeez Malefakis (born 1988 in Kaduna, Nigeria) is a global research and policy expert on terrorism, crisis, peace-building and humanitarian displacement. She was the crisis and humanitarian displacement information analyst for West, East and Southern Africa in the Norwegian Refugee Council’s ACAPS programme. Before that, she was a global postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB), a research fellow at the United States Institute of Peace’s RESOLVE Network, and a junior researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Halle (Germany). Malefakis joined NADEL (the...
