Bio

Samson Confidence Agbelengor is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana, Legon. He has been a student of politics since 2008, and in the last year, has been instrumental in both face-to-face and virtual tutorial sections in the political science discipline for undergraduate students in levels 100, 200 and 300 at the University of Ghana. In 2019, he won the Baden Württemberg scholarship as a visiting doctoral candidate at the University of Konstanz Germany, for an experiential learning exchange. This included a Merian Institute of Advanced Studies in Africa visiting scholar exchange at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies in Africa and Arnold Bergstraesser Institut, University of Freiburg, Germany, where he partook in several seminar presentation sections. Agbelengor’s years of uninterrupted academic learning and international exchanges in the discipline of political science, has established relevant professional experiences, particularly in teaching and proposal development. However, his overall developing expertise and goal is tailored towards teaching and research on issues of conflict, peace and local peacebuilding, particularly on conflict transformation processes and the promising interaction between local and international peace-builders. His current doctoral thesis is on “A Comparative Analysis of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture and the Ghanaian Peace Architecture Under the Fourth Republican Constitution.”