Fellows

Fana Gebresenbet Erda is an assistant professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University. He coordinates the Institute’s PhD programme in Peace and Security Studies. He received his PhD in Global and Area Studies, with special emphasis on peace and security in Africa, from the University of Leipzig and Addis Ababa University. His dissertation was on “The Political Economy of Land Investments: Dispossession, Resistance and Territory-Making in Gambella, Western Ethiopia.” His research interests include resource politics, politics of development, climate security, and pastoralism in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. He has published journal articles and …

Rosemary Jaji is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Bayreuth University, Germany, as well as a BSc in Sociology and an MSc in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Zimbabwe. Her doctoral thesis focused on “Refugee Women and the Experiences of Local Integration in Nairobi, Kenya.” Her research areas of interest are migration/refugees, peace and conflict studies, identity, belonging, citizenship, and gender. She has published on refugee masculinities and femininities, refugee containment, refugee hosting and identity, asylum seekers, and border crossing. Her current research

Fekadu Beyene Kenee is a professor of Institutional and Resource Economics at Haramaya University, Ethiopia. He received a PhD from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, and an MSc degree from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He has taught various courses and conducted research on issues including sustainable land management, customary pastoral land administration, food security and land use systems, climate change and pastoral adaptations, and natural resource-based conflict. He has also supervised graduate students working on sustainable watershed management, collective action in forest management, the influence of settlement on rangeland ecosystems and livelihoods, the impact of climate change on fisheries, challenges in

Delmas Tsafack is a researcher in history and international relations and a program officer at the Muntu Institute, African Humanities and Social Sciences, Yaounde, Cameroon. His research interests include the history and foreign policy of Equatorial Guinea, foreign policy of small states, regional integration, and international relations. He has participated in dozens of international conferences and is a member of several scientific organizations as the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), the Cameroon History Society (CHS), and the International Political Science Association (IPSA). He has extensively researched and published articles on Equatorial Guinea.

Dr. Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka is a lawyer, political scientist, lecturer, and post-doctorate researcher. He received his doctorate degree from the School of Political and Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. His doctoral dissertation focused on land grabbing by local elites in the African Great Lakes region: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Rwanda), particularly on issues of power and resistance in relation with access to natural resources in this region. In addition to natural resources, his current postdoctoral research focuses on issues related to the peasantry and armed groups in the region, and critical Afro-diasporic thinking.

Daniel Olisa Iweze lectures in the Department of History and International Studies, University of Benin, Benin-City, Nigeria. He holds a BA and MA from Bayero University, Kano, and a PhD from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His main research interests are in social and economic History. He is the author of A History of Transport System across the River Niger between Asaba and Onitsha from 1954 to 1991. He has taught courses in history and international studies and supervised a number of dissertations at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has published a number of articles in reputable scholarly international

Rawia Tawfik is an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in politics from the University of Oxford. She was a visiting research fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), and a researcher at the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn. Her research interests include, African development, regional integration, and resource-based conflicts, especially conflicts over transboundary rivers in Africa, and the Nile basin in particular. Her work on these issues have appeared in leading

Azeez Olusola Olaniyan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. He is also the assistant director of the Institute of Peace, Security and Governance of the same university. He completed his PhD in Political Science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His research interests revolve around issues related to conflict and security studies, ethnic politics, social movements, and political ecology. He is a recipient of a number of grants and fellowships, which include: Research/Writing Fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximillians University, Munich, Germany; Postdoctoral Research

Mary Boatemaa Setrana is a lecturer at the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, in Accra, Ghana. Her PhD in Migration Studies was a sandwich programme between Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and the University of Ghana. She is also part of the Brown International Advanced Research Institute Alumni; ILO International Training Centre Alumni, Turin, Italy; Oikos Young Professionals Academy, Switzerland; as well as the African Studies Centre and CERES, both in the Netherlands. Her research interests include migration and ethnic conflict, qualitative research methods, peace and conflict, democracy, diaspora, and homeland politics. She has published in both

Fatma Osman Ibnouf is an Assistant Professor, Researcher, and Trainer at Development Studies and Research Institute (DSRI), University of Khartoum, Sudan. Dr. Ibnouf obtained her BSc in Agriculture Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Egypt. She obtained an MSc in Animal Production, Faculty of Animal Production, University of Khartoum, Sudan. Her PhD thesis focused on “Role of Women in Providing and Improving Household Food Security in Sudan”, which she received from the Center of Development Studies, University of Wales Swansea, UK. Since then she has participated in many training courses and workshops on issues such as gender, women studies,