Thokozile Ruzvidzo
Thokozile Ruzvidzo is the Director of the Gender, Poverty and Social Policy Division that leads United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)’s work on Poverty, Social Protection, Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, Employment, Youth Migration, Urbanization and various other aspects of Social Development. The Division leads the research and policy support to African Member States […]
Riya William Yuyada
Riya William Yuyada Is the founder of Crown The Woman-South Sudan, Co-founder of PLAY FOR PEACE SOUTH SUDAN, a TedX Kakuma refugee camp 2018 speaker and is a South Sudanese woman who is passionate about peace and women’s human rights. She is best known for her role in peace building in schools and communities and […]
Stergomena Lawrence Tax
Dr. Stergomena Lawrence Tax is the sixth Executive Secretary, and first female Executive Secretary, of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), following her appointment in August 2013. Dr. Tax has led and participated in numerous regional integration, bilateral, as well as multilateral processes, programmes and negotiations, and has contributed to the development and implementation of […]
Sanusha Naidu
Sanusha Naidu is a foreign policy analyst. Her research interests include Democratisation in Africa; Africa’s Political Economy and Development; Africa’s relations with Emerging Powers from the South (BRICS and IBSA); South African Foreign Policy Analysis; and the role of track two diplomacy in International Relations. Ms Naidu has a Masters in International Relations from the […]
Kheira Tarif
Kheira Tarif (Algeria/United Kingdom) is a Research Assistant in the Climate Change and Risk Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Her research focuses on the pathways between climate change and violent conflict.
Anab Ovidie Grand
Anab Ovidie Grand is a Junior Research Fellow with the Peace, Conflict and Development Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). She mainly works on the Training for Peace (TfP) programme but also covers the Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON) and the Climate-related Peace and Security Risks project (CPSR).
Thomas Mandrup
Thomas Mandrup is an Extraordinary Associate Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Associate Professor at Royal Danish Defence College, Denmark. He has published articles and book chapters and co-edited several books on issues related to African security governance, climate security in Africa, Peacemissions and South African foreign policy. Currently, he is finalizing a monograph […]
Alexandra Lukamba
Alexandra A. Lukamba is a former Research Fellow at ACCORD. Prior to joining ACCORD, she was pursuing a dual master’s in International Development and in Leadership and Development at Sciences Po Paris and King’s College London. During her tenure at King’s College London, she was selected as an Associate Fellow of the African Leadership Centre. […]
Désiré Yetsowou Assogbavi
A lawyer and international development expert, Desire Assogbavi has been successively the Resident Representative to the African Union and Director of the Liaison Offices of three international organizations: Oxfam International, Plan International, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for 13 years combined between 2006 and 2019, where he worked on a range of issues […]
Norman Chivasa
Dr. Norman Chivasa is a post-doctoral fellow in the Peacebuilding programme, Durban University Technology, South Africa. His research interests involves urban peacebuilding, social crime prevention & community development initiatives. His consulting specialty involves designing, implementing and evaluating local infra- structures for peace and development at village level.