Alida Kok Engelbrecht
Alida Kok Engelbrecht is a political scientist and a resident of Pretoria, South Africa. Having worked as lecturer, researcher, analyst, communications profiler, project manager and programme manager in the academic, private, non-governmental and government sectors, she has recently joined UNISA’s Department of Political Sciences as junior lecturer to again build a career as an academic […]
Themba M. Sokhulu
Themba M. Sokhulu is an independent elections consultant based in Durban.
Absalom Mutere
Dr. Absalom Mutere is a lecturer at the University of Nairobi and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Media Council of Kenya (MCK).
Michelle Small
Michelle Small is a lecturer in International Relations at Monash South Africa.
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Professor Dr. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth.
Jo-Ansie van Wyk
Dr Jo-Ansie van Wyk is Professor of International Politics at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa. She has published on African politics, political leadership on the continent, and African diplomacy and diplomatic practice. She is the co-editor of the South African Foreign Policy Review (Volume 4, forthcoming 2022). She is a guest lecturer at the […]
Kemi Ogunsanya
Working throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Kemi Ogunsanya was a conflict prevention, mitigation, and response adviser with the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD). After beginning her career in negotiation and mediation, Ms. Ogunsanya expanded her work to include conflict and prevention, democracy building, and human rights work. She trained Congolese women to participate […]
Daniel Bendix
Daniel Bendix is conducting research on security sector reform in a project funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF). He is a doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester’s Institute for Development Policy and Management.
Ruth Stanley
Ruth Stanley teaches international and comparative politics at the Free University of Berlin. She is currently directing a research project on security sector reform funded by the DSF.
Kenneth Omeje
Kenneth Omeje is Professor of International Relations at the United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the author of High Stakes and Stakeholders: Oil Conflict & Security in Nigeria (Ashgate, 2006); Extractive Economies and Conflicts in the Global South: Multi-regional Perspective on Rentier Politics (ed. Ashgate, 2008); State – Society Relations in […]