Chido Mutangadura-Yeswa is a peace and conflict expert whose work focuses on human security developments in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on security sector reform, conflict prevention, preventive diplomacy, peacebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction and development, governance, regionalism, and foreign policy. Chido is a former Senior Fellow at the United Nations University-Centre for Policy Research where she co-led research under an XCEPT Research Fund award titled Diversity Among Peacekeepers Who Is Involved in UN Peace Support Operations and How Does It Matter? Chido was previously a member of the Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on Sustainable regional peacebuilding at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana, Accra. She holds a Doctorate in Conflict Management from the Nelson Mandela University in South Africa where she specialised in the role of regional organisations in promoting citizen participation in political violence prevention processes in Africa. She is currently the Head of the Sub-Saharan Africa Desk at the MEA Institute for Strategic Studies.
