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UNIVERSTY FOR PEACE AFRICA PROGRAMME
FINAL REPORT OF THE UPEACE SHORT COURSE ON
CONFLICT PREVENTION, MANAGEMENT AND
RESOLUTION
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
3 – 7 APRIL 2006

Who’s who
Section I
Participants in Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution
The Africa Programme of the University for Peace would like to
express its sincere appreciation to its donors for the generous
funding which has enabled the realization of this important
programme
activity.
Canadian International
Development Agency
Government of The Netherlands
Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency
Swiss Agency for
Development and Cooperation
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NAME: RICHARD F T AKUM
COUNTRY: CAMEROON
Researcher, Peace Practitioners Project
UPEACE Africa Program
Center for Human Rights
University of Pretoria
0002 Pretoria
Phone: [27] 12 420 338
Fax: [27] 12 362 5125
Email: fonteh@gmail.com
Mr Akum recently joined the Peace Practitioners’ project at the UPEACE Africa
Programme as Researcher. This project seeks to capture the complex interactive
dynamics underlying conflict mediation and negotiation in Africa. Through the voices of
conflict parties and mediators to some of Africa’s most intractable conflicts, he
documents individual perspectives on the process of conflict de-escalation and the road
to a sustainable peace.
Mr Akum brings a diverse academic and professional background to the UPEACE
Africa Programme. He worked for five years as Media Specialist with the International
Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. He was also engaged in Africa-related NGO
advocacy in Washington D.C. where he co-founded The Africa Project at the American
University’s Center for Global Peace.
Mr Akum holds an MA in international peace and conflict resolution (with a
concentration in economics policy and development) from the American University in
Washington D.C.; an MA in journalism and mass communication from the American
University in Cairo, Egypt; and a BSc (Hons.) in journalism and mass communication
(minor in political science) from the University of Buea, Cameroon.
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NAME: MARGARET ANGUCIA
COUNTRY: UGANDA
Institute of Ethics and Development Studies
Uganda Martyrs University,Nkozi
Post Office Box 5498
Kampala
Uganda
Phone: [256] 038 410665
Cell: [256] 0712294954
Email: mangucia@umu.ac.ug
Sister Margaret Angucia is a Lecturer at the Institute of Ethics and Development Studies,
Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi. Holding an MA in public administration and
management, she is currently, a PhD candidate, University of Groningen, the
Netherlands. Her research topic is: Peacebuilding: Towards a Model for Social
Reintegration of War-Affected Children in Northern Uganda.
Previously, Sister Angucia has developed a course on peace and conflict management at
the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Sister Angucia also
has experience in working with urban refugees in Kampala.
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NAME: MS CONSOLATE BIGIRIMANA
COUNTRY: RWANDA
Lecturer, Researcher, Deputy Director
Center for Conflict Management (CCM)
National University of Rwanda
Post Office Box 601
Butare
Rwanda
Phone: [250] 530 806
Fax: [250] 530 121
Email: latamut@yahoo.fr
Ms Consolate Bigirimana is a Researcher and Deputy Director of the Center for Conflict
Management at National University of Rwanda. She is also a teacher in the Faculty of
Law at the same University.
Ms Bigirimana has only recently been elected Deputy Director of the Center for Conflict
Management. As a researcher, she has published two articles in the Law Review of the
Faculty of Law (NUR) entitled, ‘Histoire des Droits de l'Homme: Quid d'un droit de
colonisation’ and ‘Le racisme: l’intégration comme réponse sociale au racisme’. She has
also published an article entitled ‘ Essai d'analyse philosophique de la désobéissance civile.
Quid de sa légitimité’ in Laval Théologique et Philosophique Review (LTP) of Laval University.
In ‘Cahiers du CCM’» series, she has co-published the Cahier n° 13, entitled ‘ Recherche
sur les causes des conflits fonciers en province de Kibuye’. In the Faculty of Law, she
supervises student’s theses. She also does occasional consultative work for national
institutional partners of CCM.
Ms Bigirimana previously worked at the Office of the Prosecutor (Parquet de la
République) in Butare province as Deputy Prosecutor in 2000-2002 conducting
prosecution duties as well as preliminaries to the establishment of Gacaca jurisdictions.
Ms Bigirimana holds a DES in human rights from Université Catholique de Louvain in
Belgium and a BA in law from National University of Rwanda.
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NAME : DR MRS ESTHER CHELULE
COUNTRY: KENYA
Lecturer, Peace Studies in Education, Department of
Psychology, Counseling and Educational Foundations.
Egerton University
Post Office Box 536- 20107
Njoro
Kenya
Phone: [254] 51 62276
Fax: [254] 51 62213, Ext: 3343
Cell: [254] 722480244
Email : efchelule@yahoo.com
Dr Chelule has worked as a teacher in several schools and universities. She has been
Lecturer in Social Conflict and Management at United States International University-
Africa (USIU-A), where she taught an undergraduate course before joining Egerton
University, where she lectures in peace studies in Education at graduate level.
She holds an honours degree in sociology from Kenyatta University, Kenya, Masters
Degree and PhD from Varanaseya and Maharshi Universities, respectively from India.
She also holds Advanced University Diploma in peace research and conflict resolution
from the University of Uppsala Sweden. She wrote a project on “The Role of Regional
Organizations in Conflict Resolution: a case of IGAD and the UN in the Horn of Africa.
She is writing a book on peace education
Dr Chelule worked at Investment Promotion Centre (IPC) as a manager in charge of
promotion, where she organised many promotional conferences, workshops, seminars as
well as trade fairs, both locally and abroad. She also worked with women’s projects
especially on water and sanitation in urban slums and the structural conflict involved in
the provision of the scarce resource- water.
She is Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) Ambassador, Africa where she advocates for
safe drinking water and adequate sanitation for women, who are seen in the society as
providers of water and related services.
She is also Board Director, Building Partnership for Development for Water and
Sanitation (BPD), where she encounters structural conflicts in meeting Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), and how partnership can be forged so that people can
share the scarce resource amicably, with justice achieved through having signed
partnerships.
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NAME: DR DONALD P CHIMANIKIRE
COUNTRY: ZIMBABWE
Director and Researcher,
Institute of Development Studies
University of Zimbabwe
Post Office Box MP167
Mount Pleasant
Harare
Zimbabwe
Phone:[263] 4 333341-3
Fax: [263] 4 333345
Cell: [263] 11 808002
Email: dpchimanikire@science.uz.ac.zw
Dr Donald P. Chimanikire has been involved in many initiatives relating to peace and
security in Southern Africa; economic integration in Southern Africa and public
administration in Africa. He was involved as coordinator in setting-up the University of
Cambridge Global Security Programme in Southern Africa. He has written a number of
popular booklets on common security and defence arrangements and regional
integration: the case of SADC and the role of Zimbabwe’s defence force in peacekeeping
operations.
Dr Chimanikire is currently Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University
of Zimbabwe. He was once the Chairman of the Department of International Relations
and Social Development Studies at the University of Zimbabwe. Current research
interests include: civil-military relations in Africa, conflict resolution, civil society and
governance issues in Africa.
Dr Chiimanikire holds PhD and MPhil degrees international relations from Jawarhalal
Nehru University, New Delhi. He also holds an MA in international relations from Kiev
State University, Ukraine. His Master’s thesis was on: ‘The Role of African States in the
United Nations, 1958-1977’ (in Russian). He was awarded a diploma in negotiations and
peace keeping, Vienna, Austria by the International Peace Academy, New York.
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NAME: MR MESFIN GEBREMICHAEL
COUNTRY: ETHIOPIA
Mr. Mesfin Gebremichael
Planning and Budgeting
Addis Ababa University
Post Office Box 20073/1000
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Phone: [251] 11 1234 026
Fax: [251] 11 1239 768
Email: mesfing31@hotmail.com
Mr Gebremichael is Director of the Planning and Budget Office of the Addis Ababa
University and Lecturer in Information Systems. Prior to this position he held numerous
positions in the field of internal security in Ethiopia.
Mr Gebremichael holds a BA in economics, an MSc in information science and an MSc
in governance and development management.
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NAME: DR. RUKAYYATU ABDULKAREEM
GURIN
COUNTRY: NIGERIA
Chief Quality Assurance Officer
National Universities Commission
Plot 430, Aguiyi-Ironsi Street
Pmb 237, Garki Gpo,
Maitama
Abuja, Fct
Nigeria
Phone:[234]9 413 3176-81
Cell: [234] 803 312 0450
Email: ruky-gurin@yahoo.com
Dr Rukayyatu Gurin is a staff member of the National Universities Commission (NUC);
a quality assurance agency in-charge of university education in Nigeria. She taught as a
lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of Maiduguri for several years before
joining the NUC.
Dr Gurin developed her interest in peace education many years ago and had worked with
women organisations in promoting education and peace in Nigeria. She has been
involved in several projects aimed at promoting women’s development and had
presented papers on girl-child education and peace building in multi-ethnic society.
As Quality Assurance Officer and a member of the NUC/UPEACE Committee, Dr
Gurin has participated on numerous occasions in the organisation of workshops on
peace studies; which subsequently led to the adoption of peace education as a
compulsory course in Nigerian universities. She also participated in several curriculum
development projects including accreditation, monitoring and evaluating academic
programmes in Nigerian universities. Her works focused on curriculum (design) and
instruction, with focus on Islamic studies and social studies.
Dr Gurin holds Bachelors degree (BEd) in Islamic studies, Masters Degree (MEd) in
curriculum studies and a PhD in curriculum and instruction from University of
Maiduguri, Nigeria.
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NAME: MR JOSEPH YAV KATSHUNG
COUNTRY: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF
CONGO
Lecturer;
Coordinator, UNESCO Chair for Human Rights, Peace,
Conflict Resolution, Democracy and Good Governance
University of Lubumbashi
Po. Box: 1825
Lubumbashi /Katanga province
Democratic Republic of Congo
Phone: [243] 99 70 21 758
Fax: [1] 501 638 4935
Email: joyav22@yahoo.fr
Website: www.cerdh.tk
Mr Yav Katshung is a Lecturer in law, at the Faculty of Law, University of Lubumbashi,
Democratic Republic of Congo. He is also the Executive Director of CERDH (Centre
d’Etudes et de Recherche en Droits de l’Homme, Democratie et Justice Transitionnelle
/Centre for Human Rights, Democracy and Transitional Justice Studies), and
Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair for Human Rights, Peace, Democracy, Good
Governance and Conflict Resolution at the University of Lubumbashi (DRC). He is also
an Advocate at the Lubumbashi Bar Association/DRC. He has also worked as a
consultant for many institutions in the fields of human rights, democracy and transitional
justice.
Mr Yav Katshung holds an MA in human rights and democratisation in Africa
(University of Pretoria in South Africa); another MA in law (University of Lubumbashi in
DRC); a diploma in transitional justice from the Transitional Justice Fellowship
Programme (ICTJ & IJR joint programme), South Africa; a certificate in peace-building
in war torn societies (ASPR) and a LLB (University of Lubumbashi). Mr. Yav Katshung
has published numerous articles on human rights, law and, transitional justice in scholarly
journals.
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NAME: DR TAIWO ONAOLAPO KAYODE
COUNTRY: NIGERIA
Lecturer_Master's in Humanitarian and Refugee Studies
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CEPACS)
University of Ibadan
Old Creche Building
17 Elliot Close
P.M.B., U.I. Post Office
Ibadan
Phone: [234] 80 332 33 747
Email: k_taiwo@yahoo.com
Dr Taiwo was nominated and accepted to the Board of CEPACS’ Fellows last year. He
teaches a course on research methods in humanitarian and refugee studies in the Master’s
in Humanitarian and Refugee Studies professional degree programme of the Centre for
Peace and Conflict Studies (CEPACS), University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Dr Taiwo has spent numerous years teaching in the field of psychology at both the
graduate and undergraduate level. His major research interests are: analyses of
personality traits associated with psychopathology, human life adjustment, work
environment/performance; gender and differential material-emotional expectations
expectancy.
Dr Taiwo holds a BSc in psychology, an MSc in clinical psychology and a Doctor of
Philosophy psychology degree, with a bias in clinical psychology from the University of
Ibadan.
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NAME: ANITA KIAMBA
COUNTRY: KENYA
Assistant Lecturer
Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies
University of Nairobi
P.O.Box 30197-00100
Nairobi.
Kenya
Phone: [254] 20 318 262
Cell: [254] 733 886771
Email: akiamba@yahoo.com
Ms Kiamba has been involved in research in the area of child soldiers. More specifically
she has researched on child soldiers in Southern Sudan and Northern Uganda. She has
focused on the use of children as soldiers by the armed opposition groups in these
specific countries.
She is currently engaged in coordinating the creation of new programmes for the
Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies. These programmes include a Master of
Arts degree and a Post-Graduate Diploma in international conflict management.
Ms. Kiamba has been involved in research work in various fields: Working Paper for
ICFTU – AFRO ‘The Role and Contribution of African Trade Unions in conflict
Resolution and Peace Building in the Great Lakes Region’ (2003), ‘A critical Analysis of
Internally Displaced ‘Peoples: A case study of Kenya – 1999 – 2002’ (2002), Working
Paper ‘Political Violence in East Africa and the Democratization Process’ (2001),
Working Paper ‘The Role of Neighbourhood Association in Governance: A case study
of Nairobi’ (2001).
Ms Kiamba holds a BA in international relations from the United States International
University and an MA in international studies from the University of Nairobi. She is
currently a Doctorate student at the University of Nairobi.
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NAME: PROF DR. MARION KEIM LEES
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
Associate Professor
Institute for Social Development/School of
Government
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag X17
Bellville 7535
South Africa
Phone: [27] 21 959 3859/8
Fax: [27] 21 959 3865
E-mail: mkeim@uwc.ac.za
Dr Marion Keim Lees is Associate Professor lecturing on conflict, peace and diversity as
well as leadership on the postgraduate programme in development studies at the
University of the Western Cape as well as on the peace, leadership and development
programme in cooperation with the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre in Cape Town.
Prior to this appointment she was the National Training Coordinator of the Peace and
Development Project, a bi-national project between Germany & South Africa which
focuses on conflict resolution, crime prevention and youth development.
Marion Keim Lees is an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, the Training
Advisor of Women for Peace Western Cape, the Co-coordinator of the Network for
Community, Peace and Development, Western Cape and a Steering Committee Member
of the Centre for Conflict Transformation, Reconstruction and Development of the Law
Faculty at the University of the Western Cape. She works primarily on community
development issues in South Africa focusing on peace building and the integration of
marginalized groups in disadvantaged communities. She has been published nationally
and internationally with wide ranging research interests such as community development,
multiculturalism, conflict transformation and peace-building, crime prevention, youth
development and sport as a means for peace building.
Prof Dr Marion Keim Lees holds a BA in social sciences and in sports sciences, an MA
in education, a DPhil from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and an LLB from the
University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She was a DAAD fellowship holder and a
Golden Key Graduate.
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NAME: MS. N'DÈYE ROSALIE LO
COUNTRY: SENEGAL
Programme Officer
Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS)
Immeuble Rose, Stèle Mermoz Appt 31 C
BP 45077
Dakar Fann
Senegal
Phone: [221] 860 2048
Fax: [221] 860 2047
Email: ro20salielo@yahoo.fr
Ms Lo is Regional Programme Officer for Femme Africa Solidarité (FAS) since February
of 2006. In this capacity she coordinates the implementation of the regional programme
on gender, peace and security for the following regions: Mano River, Great Lakes,
African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
She had previously been with Oxfam America, West Africa Regional Office
as Regional Programme Officer and has the distinction of being the first recipient of the
WIPNET (Woman in Peace Building Network) Mama Peace Award in 2004. Ms. Lo
holds a BA in development studies.
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NAME: DR VINCENT OLUWASESAN MAKANJU
COUNTRY: NIGERIA
Director
Peace Education Centre
Obafemi Awolowo University
Ile-Ife
Nigeria
Phone: [234] 036 233191; 036 230662; 08034003186
Fax: [234] 036 232401
Email: vmakanju@yahoo.co.uk,
peacorps@oauife.edu.ng, peaceeducentre@yahoo.co.uk
Dr Makanju is a pharmaceutical scientist currently lecturing at the Faculty of Pharmacy
of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria in addition to directing the Peace
Education Centre.
Dr Makanju started his peace crusade in 1994 when Nigeria was almost at the brim of
collapse due to the cancellation of the June 1993 presidential election by the military
dictators in power. Dr Makanju has worked relentlessly to propagate ideals of peace in
Nigeria, particularly among the agile youths. In recognition of his activities, the Defense
and Disarmament Institute of Massachusetts, USA appointed him as the African
representative of her Global Action to Prevent War programme and a member of the
International Steering Committee of the group.
He forwarded the BRUSSELS CALL FOR ACTION to the 1998 ECOWAS Conference
in Abuja, Nigeria – the meeting passed a Moratorium on Small Arms/Light Weapons in
West African Subregion. He led a group of twenty-four Peace Volunteers to the
ECOWAS Conference in Accra, Ghana in April 2000 to further drive home the Centre’s
campaign against Arms in Wrong Hands in Africa. He also led thirty-four members of
the Echoes of Peace troupe of the Centre to Barcelona Forum 2004 where they
demonstrated the use of African culture and tradition as vessels for peace promotion.
Dr Makanju is credited with a number of academic publications in the field of pharmacy
as well as peace related articles. He holds a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon
Tyne in Great Britain.
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NAME: MS. TASILA MBEWE
COUNTRY: ZAMBIA
Assistant Lecturer
Dag Hammarskjöld Centre for Peace, Good
Governance
Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation
P. O. Box 21493
Kitwe
Phone: [260] 2 210 281
Fax: [260] 2 211 001
Email: chongt2002@yahoo.com
Ms Tasila Mbewe is an Assistant Lecturer at the Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation with a
BA in library science and a certificate in electronic journals and electronic resource on
library management.
Originally coming to MEF two years ago as a librarian, she has gradually transitioned into
the field of conflict studies. In 2003 she attended a seminar on peacebuilding, education,
practice and partnership in Botswana. In 2004, Ms Mbewe was sent to Sweden to attend
a course on human rights information and documentation for librarians. At MEF she
used this information to aid in the first gender and peace building seminar sponsored by
UPEACE in July 2004.
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NAME: MR PETER O. B. MCOMALLA
COUNTRY: UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
Reseacher / Educator / Trainer
Executive Director: Human Rights Education And
Peace International (Hurepi-Trust)
Director: Hurepi Centre For Peace, Conflict Resolution
And Human Rights Studies
Post Office Box 14963, Arusha (H/Q) P. O. Box 183,
Shirati – Mara – Tanzania(Branch Office)
Phone: [255] (0) 787 088 281
[255] (0) 787 088 281
Email: mcomalla@yahoo.com
hurepi@hotmail.com
Mr McOmalla started involving in human right promotion since 1988 when he first
became a member of the Amnesty International, becoming its Tanzania Section
Executive Secretary General. He was involved highly in introducing human right
education (HRE) idea in Tanzania. He then became involved in the promotion and
protection of the rights of the marginalized, indigenous and minority people to the global
level. Establishing (HUREPI – TRUST) as founder in 1997, he became involved in
research, campaign and advocacy for the introduction of human right education and
peace education in the Tanzania school curriculum and focusing these in the African
continent. He was also fully involved in the establishment of HUREPI CENTRE FOR
PEACE, CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND HUMAN RIGHT STUDIES where he
now teaches and lectures peace education, human right education conflict
transformation, mediation, negotiation and reconciliation skills and small arms and light
weapons (SALW) control arms. Mr McOmalla having a long and extensive international
experiences and expertise in both peace (SALW) and human right education is involved
in many national, sub-regional, regional and global networks as (TAHURIPE – EDU-
NET), Coalition for Peace in Africa, (COPA), EAANSA, TANANSA, IANSA,
GPPAC. His aim is to ensure an African culture of peace and culture of human rights is
taking roots. Graduate in finance/management and member of the Association of
International Accountant (A.I.A) of England. He has studied international law in human
rights/humanitarian and refugee law, peace teaching, advanced continental conflict
transformational. He has widely performed many international consultancies and
presentations in conflict prevention/management/(SALW)/and human rights both in
Africa and India. Mr McOmalla is currently working on MA in applied conflict
transformation studies.
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NAME: MS GLADYS MOKHAWA
COUNTRY: BOTSWANA
Lecturer
Department of Political and Administrative Studies
University of Botswana
Private Bag UB 00705
Gaborone
Phone: [267] 355 4164
Fax: [267] 397 4538
Email: mokhawa@mopipi.ub.bw
Ms Mokhawa is a Lecturer at the University of Botswana. Course instruction includes
public administration in Botswana, local government management, public policy analysis,
government budgeting, local government finances, modern states and politics in
Botswana. Research interests include international relations/international political
economy, African politics, negotiations and development studies, policy analysis, local
government and government budgeting.
Ms Mokhawa has been published in a number of refereed journals and books. She holds
a BA and an MPA from the University of Botswana.
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NAME: MR ROBERT MUDIDA
COUNTRY: KENYA
Lecturer
The Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies
University of Nairobi
Post Office Box 30197
Nairobi
Kenya
Phone: [254] 20 318262, Ext. 28087, 28381
Fax: [254] 20 339014
E-mail: rmudida@swiftkenya.com
rmudida@hotmail.com
Mr Mudida is a lecturer at the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies based at
the University of Nairobi in Kenya. He lectures and carries out research in the areas of
international conflict management, international economics, diplomacy and epistemology
of research. M. Mudida has nearly ten years of lecturing experience at different
universities in Kenya.
Prior to joining the University of Nairobi, Mr Mudida worked with the Embassies of
Chile and Spain in Kenya. He was the head of the Commercial Section of the Embassy
of Chile in Kenya and later an administrative officer with the Embassy of Spain in
Kenya. He has also taught at Strathmore University and at the Catholic University of
Eastern Africa, Hekima College.
Mr Mudida holds a BA in economics from the University of Nairobi; an MA in
international studies from the University of Nairobi and is currently pursuing a PhD in
international studies at the same university.
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NAME: MS ELIZABETH MUTUNGA
COUNTRY: ZAMBIA
Civil Society_Private Sector Desk Officer
Programme for Peace and Security
Secretariat
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
(COMESA)
COMESA Secretariat, COMESA Centre
Lusaka
Zambia
Phone: [260] 1 229726/ 32
Fax: [260] 1 224 294
Email: emutunga@comesa.int
Ms Mutunga is currently working at the Common Markets for East and Southern Africa
as a consultant within the COMESA Programme on Peace and Security. She is primarily
involved with ensuring the participation of civil society, private sector and members of
parliament in the conflict prevention and peace building programs of COMESA.
Prior to joining COMESA, Ms Mutunga was a programme officer at the Africa Peace
Forum in Nairobi and was involved with various programmes dealing with the
prevention and management of conflicts in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes
region. She has been involved in efforts to engage both state and non-state actors to
explore collaborative approaches in conflict management. She has also served as a
consultant for various initiatives and as a resource person in various workshops at the
Greater Horn of Africa, in Europe and in Canada.
Ms. Mutunga is a holder of an MSc and MBA degrees, both from Universities in Canada
and a BSC degree from the University of Nairobi in Kenya. She is currently a PhD
student enrolled at Bradford University in the UK where she is working on a research
linking bilateral trade with conflict.
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NAME: MRS KARISHMA RAJOO
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
Senior Programme Officer
Training for Peace (TfP) Programme
ACCORD
ACCORD House
Private Bag X018
4320Umhlanga Rocks
Sout Africa
Phone: [27] 31 502 3908
Fax: [27] 31 502 4160
Email: Karishma@accord.org.za
Karishma Rajoo joined ACCORD in May 2005, as the Senior Programme Officer with
the Training for Peace (TfP) Programme. She is responsible for the day-to-day running
of the programme and, among other things, the co-ordination of the TfP Civilian
Peacekeeping And Peace-Building Courses (CPPC).
Prior to joining ACCORD, Ms Rajoo worked with a local NGO as a civil society project
coordinator, and served as an assistant foreign service officer with the Department of
Foreign Affairs. She holds an honours degree in political science from the University of
Natal and she is currently pursuing a MA in conflict resolution and peace studies at the
University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN).
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NAME: MR DEO RUBERINTWARI
COUNTRY: BURUNDI
Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Law
Université du Lac Tanganyika
Mail Box : 5403
Mutanga /Bujumbura
Burundi
Fax : (257)243645
E-mail: : deoruberintwari@yahoo.fr
Mr Déo Ruberintwari has been highly active in a scout organisation since secondary
school. He has been appointed as a regional commissioner in charge of teaching within
this organisation. Since 1999, he has also become a member of the Burundian Human
Rights League which deals with the promotion and development of human rights in
Burundi.
Mr Ruberintwari has broad interests in human rights issues. He attended a training
course in humanitarian law prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC). Now he is a trainer in human rights matters in the above mentioned human
rights league. He has chaired many meetings which have dealt with human rights issues
and he is now a law lecturer at the University of Lake Tanganyika (Université du Lac
Tanganyika).
Mr Ruberintwari holds a first class degree of Bachelor of Law from the University of
Burundi.
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NAME: MR WALTERS TOHNJI. TIKUM SAMAH
COUNTRY: CAMEROON
Lecturer, Researcher
Department of History
University of Yaounde I
Post Office Box 755,
Yaounde
Republic of Cameroon
Phone: [237] 746 87 93
Email: sawatoti@yahoo.co.uk
Mr Samah is also a visiting professor at the Adventist University Cosendai, Nanga-Eboko
(Cameroon). He has been researching on governance, conflict and ethnicity in
Cameroon. He has especially looked at sources of conflict within indigenous political
systems.
Mr Samah is a member of Humanus Foundation (formerly Governance Alert) which is
engaged in the promotion of human rights, democracy and good governance in
Cameroon. He is currently involved in a nation-wide program to educate traditional
leaders on human rights and civil liberties.
Mr Samah is a holder of an MA and DEA (MPhil) in History, specializing in international
relations, and has a just completed his PhD thesis on chieftaincy and governance in
Cameroon.
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NAME: YASSIR HASSAN SATTI
COUNTRY: SUDAN
Director
Center for Peace and Development Studies
University of Zalingei
West Darfur State
Sudan
Cell: [249] 912673254
Email : yassirov151@maktoob.com or
Yassirco2006@yahoo.co.uk
Mr Satti has been involved in conflict and peace studies since 1999.He is regarded as one
of founders of the peace center as well as faculty of Technology of University of
Zalingei .
Mr Satti holds an MA and high diploma in development planning from Development
Studies and Research Institution – University of Khartoum and now he is a PhD
candidate at the University of Sudan for Science and Technology.
Mr Satti is also interested in social and economic issues, he has written many essays
published in the daily Sudanese newspapers. He has also published poems and two
books:‘The Forgotten Poor of West Darfur’ and ‘The Dynamics of Murdering and
Impoverishment in Darfur’.
He has attended more than fifteen workshops on different issues and in many instances,
Mr Satti contributed as core trainer in workshops that were carried out in collaboration
with UNDP Sudan office in rule of law, conflict resolution and peace building
programmes.
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NAME: DR PASCAL TOUOYEM
COUNTRY: CAMEROON
Lecturer and Chief Executive Officer
Interdisciplinary Centre for Development and Human
Rights
CIPAD
Post Office Box 30 552
Yaoundé
Cameroon
Phone: [237] 602 54 96
Fax: [237] 231 22 55
Email: cipad_line@yahoo.fr
omac_line@yahoo.fr
Dr Pascal Touoyem is a long-standing political publicist and publisher, critic of ethnic
politics and lecturer of philosophy in University of Yaoundé 1. Prior to this appointment
he was a research associate and lecturer at the Faculté de Théologie Protestante de
Yaoundé, Cameroon, where he focused on peace and development.
Dr Touoyem is Chief Executive Officer of the CIPAD, Interdisciplinary Centre of
Development and Human Rights, and serves as a resource person for peace building at
the Ecumenical Service for Peace in Cameroon.. He also served as chief editor at the
Bilingual Review Dialogue and Reconciliation and director of two Cameroonian
quarterlies: La Vesperale and Inpact-Tribune. He works primarily on issues of ethnicity,
African security, peace building, democratic governance, development and human rights.
He is author of numerous publications including (co-editor) La decentralisation en
débat.. Notes critiques sur l’ingénierie politique au Cameroun, 2005).
Dr Touoyem is a member of PhD network on intercultural philosophy around the
Rotterdam Chair of Foundations of Intercultural Philosophy.
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NAME: DR ANTHONI VAN NIEUWKERK
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
Senior Lecturer
Centre for Defence and Security Management
Graduate School of Public and Development Management
University of the Witwatersrand
PO Box 601, WITS, 2050
South Africa
Phone: [27] 11 717 3927
Fax: [27] 11 717 3695
Email: vannieuwkerk.a@pdm.wits.ac.za
Website: http://pdm.mgmt.wits.ac.za
Anthoni van Nieuwkerk is a senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Public and
Development Management (P&DM) at the University of the Witwatersrand in
Johannesburg, South Africa, and attached to the School’s Centre for Defence and
Security Management.
He has worked at various academic institutions and between 1994 and 1999
directed the research programme of the Institute for Global Dialogue. At Wits, he is a
member of a team coordinating the research and training activities of the Southern
African Defence and Security Management (SADSEM) network. He also teaches on the
Masters of Management programme at the Graduate School of Public and Development
Management.
He is co-editor of three books and author of various journal articles and book
chapters. He is a guest lecturer and external examiner at various South African academic
and training institutions. He is a council member of the South African Association of
Political Science (SAAPS) and a research associate of the Institute for Global Dialogue
(IGD) and Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA). He coordinated African NGO input
into the Commission on Human Security’s 2003 global report entitled Human Security
Now and is currently a research member and coordinator of various regional projects
funded by Scandinavian and European donors.
Research interests include international relations, public policy and foreign policy
analysis, and defence and security policy in southern Africa. He holds a BA (Hons) and
MA in political studies from the University of Johannesburg and a PhD from Wits
University on foreign policy decision-making.
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Section II
External Resource Persons
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NAME: DR SHEDRACK GAYA BEST
COUNTRY: NIGERIA
Coordinator
Centre for Conflict Management and Peace Studies
University of Jos
Private Mail Bag 2084
Jos, Plateau State
Nigeria
Phone: [234] 73 610 514
Fax: [234] 73 610 514
Email: shedrackbest@yahoo.com
Dr Best is currently Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Conflict/Peace Studies at the
University of Jos, and Coordinator of the Centre for Conflict Management and Peace
Studies at this same university. He has worked as a facilitator in over 30 workshops in
peace building and conflict management and has also been involved in several genderbased
activities including the publication of papers and participation in workshops.
Dr Best holds a BSc in international studies from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; an
MSc in international relations and strategic studies from the University of Jos; and a PhD
in peace studies, from Bradford University
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NAME: DR MONICA KATHINA JUMA
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
Senior Analyst
Peace and Security
SaferAfrica
173 Beckett Street
Arcadia
0083 Pretoria
South Africa
Phone: [27] 12 481 6200
Fax: [27] 12 344 6708
Email: saferafrica@saferafrica.org
momca@saferafrica.org
Dr Monica Kathina Juma is a Senior Analyst working on issues of peace and security in
the AU-NEPAD programme at SaferAfrica. Prior to this appointment she was a
Research Associate at the International Peace Academy, New York, where she focused
on crisis and conflicts in Africa.
Dr Juma is an adjunct faculty member of the African Centre for Strategic Studies, at the
National Defence University, Washington DC and serves as a resource person for
defence colleges in Kenya and South Africa. She also served as Senior Researcher at the
Centre for Refugee Studies and Lecturer in the Department of Government and Public
Administration in Moi University, Kenya. She works primarily on issues of African
security, peace building, disaster response, displacement and human rights. She is author
of numerous publications including (co-editor) Eroding Local Capacity: International
Humanitarian Action in Africa (African Nordic Institute, 2002).
Dr Juma holds a BA and an MA in government and public administration from the
University of Nairobi and a DPhil from the University of Oxford where she was a
Commonwealth Fellow and a Wingate Scholar.
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Section III
External Evaluators
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NAME: DR PHOEBE AKINYI NYAWALO
COUNTRY: KENYA
Lead Evaluator
Post Office Box 29
Maseno
Keanya or
Global School Sweden
Badhusberget 130 453 32 Lysekil
Sweden
Email: phoebedar@yahoo.com
Dr Nyawalo has worked as a teacher educator for over twenty years in Kenyan
institutions and was Head of the Education Department at Maseno University for many
years. Her areas of professional interest are language education, anthropology and peace
education. She consults for The Global School (Sida’s agency for school improvement in
Sweden) and facilitates the training of teachers for intercultural meetings and
international understanding in the project.
She sits on the board of the International Association for Peace Psychologists, where she
is a representative for the Africa region and has carried out joint research projects in
peace education themes. She is the Lead Evaluator for UPEACE – Africa Programme.
Dr Nyawalo holds a PhD in education sciences from Bordeaux, France and postdoctoral
studies in peace education from Gothenburg University, Sweden.
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NAME: MS JOAN MBAGWU
COUNTRY: NIGERIA
Programs Manager
Olive Branch Konsult
31, Lagos Abeokuta Express Way
Ikeja, Laogos
Nigeria
Phone: [234] 803 340 0846
Email: joan@caslnet.com
Ms Mbagwu is Programmes Manager for Olive Branch Konsult. She is currently
researching ‘Women and Children and Internal Conflict in Nigeria: Mapping Social
Vulnerabilities in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations. A Case Study of Aguleri and
Umuleri Conflict’ (Ford Foundation sponsored research for African Strategic and
Research Group, AFSTRAG). She has also conducted research on:
‘Endogenous Approaches to Conflict Transformations among the Igbos of Nigeria’,
which was her PhD dissertation thesis.
Publications of Ms Mbagwu include ‘Campaign for Women in Peacebuilding’ Ife
Psychologia, 2001; ‘The Language of Conflict Resolution in Africa 2002’ (Under print)
University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, Ocean City, Maryland; ‘Conflict Resolution
Stakeholders Network Training and Facilitator’s Manuals 2000’; ‘Analysis of Classroom
Interaction’, University of Ilorin, Kwara State; and ‘The Roles of Women and NGOs in
Socio-Economic Conflict Reduction in Nigeria Rural Communities’, Antioch University,
Ohio, USA.
Ms Mbagwu has a BA in English education, an MA in conflict resolution and
management and is a PhD candidate at the University of New England, Armidale,
Australia
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Dr Jean-Bosco Butera is the Director of the Africa Regional Programme of the UN-affiliated
University for Peace. He has established the Addis Ababa office of UPEACE currently hosted
at the School of Journalism and Communication of the Addis Ababa University. A Host
Agreement was recently signed with the Government of Ethiopia.
Prior to this posting, Dr Butera was a Senior Lecturer at the National University of Rwanda in
Butare and served for eight years as Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of the University between
1995 and 2003. In 1999, he co-founded and became National Director of the Centre for Conflict
Management at the University. He is also a former Director of Cabinet in the Ministry of
Transport and Communication in the Government of Rwanda. Dr Butera holds a PhD in
Veterinary Parasitology from the University of Ghent in Belgium.
Professor Christof Heyns is the Academic Coordinator of the Africa Regional Programme of
UPEACE and the Director of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and
Professor of Human Rights Law at this same University. He has served as a consultant to the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Organization of African
Unity/African Union and the South African Human Rights Commission. He has long-standing
experience in the domain of human rights in Africa and has a wide list of publications in this
field; i.e., a chapter in ‘The African Charter on Human and People’s Rights: The System in
practice, 1986-2000’, Cambridge University Press; ‘The Impact of the United Nations Human
Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level’, Kluwer Law International; ‘The African Regional
Human Rights Systems: In Need of Reform’ in the African Human Rights Law Journal; and the
reference work ‘Human Rights Law in Africa’. His articles and books have been translated and
published in French and Spanish.
Professor Heyns is editor-in-chief of the ‘African Human Rights Law Reports’ and co-founding
editor of the African Human Rights Law Journal. Prof Heyns has taught and served as examiner at
numerous universities in Africa, Europe and North America, and will be teaching at the
American University in Washington DC as well as Oxford in 2005.
Professor Heyns is a member of the following boards among others: Academic Advisory Council
of the UN affiliated University for Peace; Board of the South African Brand of the International
Law Association. Professor Heyns has also been recently appointed as Academic Coordinator for
the Africa Programme of the University for Peace. Professor Heyns holds a Master of Arts and
an LLB degree from the University of Pretoria, a LLM from Yale University and a PhD from the
University of Witwatersrand.
Emily Laubscher is the financial officer for the LLM Trade and Investment programme at the
University of Pretoria. This programme is a joint venture of the University of Pretoria, the
University of the Western Cape in South Africa as well as overseas partner universities, such as
the American University Washington DC and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
These Master’s degrees expose the best students in Africa to a world-class education in the field
of trade and investment.
Before joining the University of Pretoria, she worked in the public sector for various companies,
all in financial capacities and her experience in this field spans over many years.
Ms. Laubscher holds a Diploma in Financial Management, is actively involved in voluntary
charity work for the aged.
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Ms Karen Stefiszyn is the assistant to the Academic Coordinator of UPEACE, Africa
Programme, based at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. Primarily, she is
working on the development of teaching materials for the UPEACE, Africa Programme.
She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario and a MSt in
International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford.
Rafael Velásquez García of Peru is a researcher for the UPEACE Africa Programme, where
he oversees and implements the conceptualisation and development of Conflict Prevention,
Management and Resolution (CPMR) instructional material.
Before joining the UPEACE Africa Programme, Rafael worked in the area of public information
for the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin
America and the Caribbean (UN– LiREC).
Rafael holds a BA in political sciences with specialisation in international relations from Simon
Fraser University and an MA in international peace studies with a specialisation in conflict
management from UPEACE.
Mr P. Krishnamurthy is Director of Administration, Finance and Personnel at the University
for Peace, Geneva Office. He is also Director in the Office of the President of the Council and
Senior Special Adviser to the Rector of UPEACE. Mr. Krishnamurthy joined the United
Nations after 15 years of service with the Government of India. He has held key posts in
administration, finance and personnel for 25 years including the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development, Geneva, the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and in the Earth Council. He held dual
positions for 4 years with both the Earth Council and the University for Peace.
Mr Joutiar Saleh is Education and Information Technology Officer for the University for Peace
based in the Geneva office. Mr Saleh is responsible for the overall design, development and
implementation of the information system strategies and requirements for the Africa and Central
Asia programmes of UPEACE. His expertise has been gained through wide exposure to IT
systems and related work experience over the past fifteen years in the area of IT, as well as
through his previous position with a UN specialized agency involving extensive field operations.
Mr Saleh holds an MA in Finance and Economics.
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Rector
University for Peace
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