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2019 ACUNS ANNUAL MEETING

THE UN AND AFRICA : PROGRESS TOWARDS ACHIEVING THE SDGS

UN @ 75: THE FUTURE OF PARTNERSHIP

AND MULTILATERALISM

THURSDAY – SATURDAY > JUNE 25–27, 2020*London, United Kingdom

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Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch, South Africa

Hosted by Stellenbosch University and

SIGLA

WELCOME ACUNS Chair | 4Roger Coate Paul D. Coverdell Professor of Public Policy, Georgia College

Host Chair | 5Wim de Villiers Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Stellenbosch University

PROGRAMKeynote Lecture | 6Agenda | 7John W. Holmes Memorial Lecture | 8Workshop Panels | 12

BIOGRAPHIESPlenary Speakers | 22Workshop Panelists | 25

A Special Thank You to our Host and Sponsoring Institutions

Coventry University

South Africa National Research Foundation

Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch Municipality

UNODC

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ACUNS SECRETARIAT

WHO WE ARE

The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) fosters research and education on and for the United Nations. ACUNS endorses the ideas of multilateralism and global governance, and aspires to advance knowledge and understanding on these issues. ACUNS particularly promotes dialogue and discussion across and between higher education, governmental and inter-governmental stakeholders, and the non-governmental sector.

ACUNS holds Associate Status with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); General Consultative Status with the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) and the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC); and observer status to United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA).

We are a global association of institutions and individuals who are active in the work and study of multilateral relations, international organization(s) and global cooperation. Our individual and institutional members come from 60 different countries and include scholars, international civil servants, civil society representatives, government officials, and other interested individuals and stakeholders.

A special effort is made to ensure that advanced research by our members and member institutions finds its way into the programs of the UN system. To that effect, ACUNS partners with UN bodies in New York, Vienna, Geneva, Beirut, Bonn, Tokyo and elsewhere to support educational and other research initiatives. UN officials of all levels participate in many of our activities, especially in our Annual Meeting and the ACUNS-UN Workshop. ACUNS participates in such UN activities as the UN’s sabbatical program, distributes surveys for the UN’s Joint Inspection Unit and facilitates the raising of awareness on UNODC educational modules.

ACUNS serves its membership and the general interest in the UN in various ways. First of all, we facilitate the publication of the high-ranking journal Global Governance. In addition, we publish a quarterly ACUNS Newsletter with a monthly ACUNS E-Update. Furthermore, we publish podcasts, video broadcasts, book-reviews and relevant information coming from the UN.

PURPOSE AND ORGANIZATION OFACUNS

Since July 2018 the ACUNS Secretariat is located at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations with the support of the host institution, Coventry University.


HOST INFORMATION

OUR HOST

MORE ABOUT STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY Stellenbosch University (SU) is one of the oldest universities in South Africa. Its vision is to be Africa’s leading research-intensive university, globally recognised as excellent, inclusive and innovative, where we advance knowledge in service of society.

With its ten faculties (AgriSciences, Economic and Management Sciences, Medicine and Health Sciences, Engineering, Military Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences, Science, Education, Law and Theology), it boasts the highest weighted research output per full-time academic staff member of all South African universities and the second-highest number of scientists in South Africa who have been ranked by the National Research Foundation (NRF) – 429 in 2017.

Stellenbosch University improved with 14 places on the Times Higher Education (THE) Emerging Economies Rankings 2019 and came 24th out of 442 universities. SU is ranked 3rd in South Africa out of nine SA universities on the list, and was placed in position 301-350 on the THE World University Rankings 2019. This places SU in the top 1% of universities globally.

With 44 research chairs under the NRF’s South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChi) and seven Centres of Excellence, the University is regarded as a world leader in the fields of biomedical tuberculosis research and management, wine biotechnology, water research, sustainable energy, animal sciences and mathematical biosciences, amongst others.

As preferred research partner, SU also participates in various international academic networks. The institution has over 150 bilateral partners in 44 countries on six continents and more than 4,300 international students from more than 100 different nationalities.

SU also has the largest number of PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) patents registered in South Africa. It has been successful in commercialising its intellectual property through its technology transfer company Innovus and its business incubator, the Launchlab.

The University is home to nearly 32,000 students, affectionately known as “Maties”.

See www.sun.ac.za for more information.

Photo: sun.ac.za


FROM THE ACUNS CHAIR

> R O G E R COAT ECHAIR, ACUNS

PAUL D. COVERDELL PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC POLICY,

GEORGIA COLLEGEO n behalf of ACUNS and its Board, it is my great pleasure to welcome you to Stellenbosch and the 32nd Annual Meeting of ACUNS, the premier global professional association of educational and

research institutions, individual scholars, teachers, and practitioners active in the work and study of the United Nations, multilateral relations, global governance, and international cooperation.

The Annual Meeting Theme, “The UN and Africa: Progress Towards Achieving the SDGs,” reflects our growing commitment to the universalization of ACUNS and our outreach to every region of the world. This Annual Meeting is the first held on the African continent, and it underscores our commitment to enhancing the relationship between the world and Africa, as well as the partnership between UN’s Agenda 2030 and Africa for confronting and overcoming the critical challenges facing its peoples.

The program reflects the diversity inherent in our membership and our commitment to bringing together varied views, expertise, interests, and demographics. I am sure that we are all anxious to listen, reflect, and learn from one other. I am certain that our discussions and sharing will make an important contribution toward the ACUNS mission.

This has been a year of transitions for ACUNS. June 2019 represents the end of ACUNS’s first year at its new host headquarters, Coventry University. On behalf of the entire membership of ACUNS, I wish to acknowledge and thank the new Executive Director, Math Noortmann, and the ACUNS staff, consisting of Secretariat Manager Gwenith Cross and Secretariat Administrator Cynthia Oroma for their hard work in mak-ing the headquarters’ transition smooth and effective and for preparing so excellently for this conference. This year also represents the move of our journal Global Governance from Lynne Rienner Publishers in Boulder, Colorado, to Brill-Nijhoff Publishers in Leiden, The Netherlands. Math Noortmann has effectively overseen the legal and practical implications of both transitions with great expertise and professionalism.

Again, we are excited to be here in Stellenbosch with our hosts at Stellenbosch University. On behalf of ACUNS, I extend our warmest thanks to Professor Hester Klopper, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Strategy and Internationalisation and Professor Samuel Tshehla, Dean, Faculty of Military Science for their support in hosting the meeting at Stellenbosch University. I would also like to thank Professor Francois Vrey who was awarded a grant from South Africa’s National Research Foundation to bring 50 scholars and practitioners from the African continent to the Annual Meeting. At Stellenbosch University Dr. Nico Elma and Ms Lidia Du Plessis have worked closely with our Secretariat team in preparation for the Annual Meeting and we are grateful for their efforts. Finally I would like to thank Executive Mayor Gesie van Deventer and Councilor Quintin Smit for arranging to host the first day of our Annual Meeting at Stellenbosch Town Hall.

To our members, I am deeply touched by your support for the mission of ACUNS, your commitment to excellence in scholarship and practice of global governance, and your passion for making the world a better and more humanly secure environment for all peoples.

Roger Coate Chair, ACUNS Paul D. Coverdell Professor of Public Policy, Georgia College Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of South Carolina


O n behalf of Stellenbosch University (SU) it is my honour to welcome you – not only to our town and country, but to our continent. The Academic Council on the United Nations (ACUNS) comes to Africa

for the first time this year, and not a moment too soon.

Africa has seen encouraging economic growth so far this millennium, and the prospects for continued expansion seem promising. However, the challenge is to translate this into broad-based human development because our continent continues to face significant challenges. And higher education has a key role to play. As stated by the Association of African Universities, development goals will only be achieved if we have a flourishing sector. An important way in which universities contribute to society is through research address-ing developmental needs.

Stellenbosch University is striving to become “Africa’s leading research-intensive university, globally recog-nised as excellent, inclusive and innovative, where we advance knowledge in service of society”. This vision was developed taking into not only South Africa’s National Development Plan, but also the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

As efforts intensify to create the “Africa we want”, there should be synergy with the global drive to “end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity”. The theme of this gathering – “The UN and Africa: Progress Towards Achieving the SDGs” – therefore provides an excellent opportunity to achieve greater alignment and collaboration.

I find SDG 17, about partnerships, particularly relevant: “The SDGs can only be realized with strong global partnerships and cooperation.” Stellenbosch University already has 120 collaborative partnerships in 30 African countries, and specific bilateral agreements with 26 fellow African higher education institutions. These form part of our well established, far-reaching, multi-layered networks of international partners.

We are pleased to be collaborating with the UN in hosting this meeting, and grateful to South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) for its financial support allowing the Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa (SIGLA) at SU to bring more than 40 delegates from across Africa to this gathering, including representatives of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centres of Excellence. This will result in more African voices being heard in the international discourse on the SDGs, and will make the continent more prominent in ACUNS.

I wish you all good discussions. Please enjoy our beautiful campus in our historic town with its many attractions. If you do not get enough of a chance to explore the surrounding area, you will just have to come back for another visit!

Professor Wim de Villiers Rector and Vice-Chancellor Stellenbosch University

WELCOME

FROM THE HOST CHAIR

> W I M D E V I L L I E R SRECTOR AND

VICE-CHANCELLOR, STELLENBOSCH

UNIVERSITY


K E Y N OT E S P E A K E R

Msingathi SipukaStrategic Advisor and Head of the Resident Coordinator’s Office

Mr Sipuka works for the United Nations in South Africa where he fulfils the role of Strategic Advisor and Head of the Resident Coordinator’s Office, based in Pretoria. His work primarily entails provision of support to the UN Resident Coordinator and the UN Country Team in South Africa on the overall coordination of the UN development system in the country. With a presence of 17 agencies in the country, the UN is pressured to reposition itself as a partner of choice of the Government and people of South Africa in the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals and in his role Mr Sipuka plays a pivotal role in promoting a system-wide approach to addressing national challenges.

Prior to this role he served as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Advisor for South Africa, where he was responsible for the mainstreaming of the SDGs in South Africa and supporting government, civil society, labour and private sector SDG oriented initiatives. In the role Mr Sipuka, had the responsibility of (i) coordinating the UN Country Team’s overall contribution to SDG implementation in the country, (ii) including aligning UN Programmes to identified SDG Priorities. In the role he worked closely with the National Planning Commission in coordinating national government work on the SDGs.

Mr Sipuka has extensive private and public-sector experience in South Africa. His private sector experience has mainly been in the banking and FMCG sectors, where he has worked in various areas including Transformation and Knowledge Management.

In the public sector his experience is mainly in local government, in the areas of institutional planning and performance, monitoring and evaluation.

Mr Sipuka is actively involved in academia, mainly as a part-time lecturer at the Nelson Mandela University where he lectures part-time in the MA Development Studies and MPhil Development Finance at the university.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree majoring in Economics. He holds Masters Degrees in ‘South African Politics and Political Economy’ and ‘Development Finance’, both attained through the Nelson Mandela University. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Development Finance with his research focusing on industrialisation and industrial strategy.

Above all he is a social activist, who has been influenced by the history and traditions of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.

KEYNOTE LECTURE


12:30 – 16:00 REGISTRATION » LOCATION Stellenbosch Town Hall

13:30 – 14:00 OPENING CEREMONYWelcome remarks» Roger Coate, Chair, ACUNS; Professor, Georgia College» Gesie van Deventer, Executive Mayor of Stellenbosch» Wim de Villiers, Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Stellenbosch University

» LOCATION Stellenbosch Town Hall

14:00 – 15:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS» Msingathi Sipuka, Strategic Advisor and Head of the Resident Coordinator’s Office


15:30 – 16:00 BREAK

16:00 – 17:30 PLENARY IThe UN and Africa: Progress Towards the SDGs

Moderator: Morne Mostert, Director of the Institute of Future Research, Stellenbosch University

Panelists:» Esther Amankwah, Head of Communications and Board Member, Youth Advocates Ghana» Nabeel Goheer, Assistant Secretary General of The Commonwealth» Carlos Lopes, Professor, the Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town; AU's High Representative for Partnerships with Europe» Gesie van Deventer, Executive Mayor of Stellenbosch


19:00 – 21:00 WELCOME RECEPTIONStellenbosch Municipality


AGENDA

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2019

» ALL EVENTS on June 19 will take place at Stellenbosch Town Hall


J O H N W. H O L M E S M E M O R I A L L E C T U R E

Thuli MadonselaChair, Law Faculty Trust for Social Justice; Professor, Stellenbosch University

Social Justice Transcending Inequalities

Professor Thulisile “Thuli” Madonsela is the Law Faculty Trust Chair for Social Justice and Law Professor at the University of Stellenbosch, where she conducts and coordinates social justice research and she teaches constitutional and administrative law. She is also the founder of the Thuma Foundation, an independent democracy leadership and literacy social enterprise.

An Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, Prof. Thuli Madonsela has been a lifelong activist on social justice, constitutionalism, human rights, good governance and the rule of law. Named one of TIME100’s most influential people in the world, in 2014 and Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2016, Prof. Thuli Madonsela is one of the drafters of South Africa’s Constitution and co-architect of several laws that have sought to anchor South Africa’s democracy. Among laws she helped draft, are the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, the Employment Equity Act and the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act.

She recently completed a 7 year term as South Africa’s Public Protector, a quasi-judicial administrative oversight body responsible for investigating and redressing maladministration, corruption, executive ethic violations and related improprieties in state affairs. Before she became the Public Protector, Prof. Madonsela served in various leadership capacities in civil society and government, including, Full-Time Commissioner in the South African Law Reform Commission. Prof. Thuli Madonsela is a co-architect and Founding Chairperson of the African Ombudsman Research Centre. She is also co-founder and one of the inaugural leaders of the South African Women Lawyers Association (SAWLA). She has a global reputation for integrity and fearlessness in enforcing accountability and justice in the exercise of public power and use of public resources. She also has a history of highlighting the importance of social justice and general inclusive enjoyment of the fruits of democracy in the pursuit of peace.

Her work has received national and global recognition, including several Lifetime Achievement Awards, among them an award by the Premier of Gauteng in 2018. She has five honorary doctor of law degrees, from Wits University, Stellenbosch University, University of Cape Town, University of Fort Hare and Rhodes University, with two approved honorary doctorates awaiting a date of conferment. Peer recognition includes the South African Law Society’s Truth and Justice Award, The General Council of the Bar’s The Sydney and Felicia Kentridge Award, Botswana Lawyers Association Honorary Membership of the Botswana Bar and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association’s Truth and Justice Award.

Prof. Thuli Madonsela is a Paul Harris Fellow, recipient of Transparency International’s Integrity Award, the German Africa Prize and Africa Anticorruption Crusader Award, among her innumerable accolades. A Tallberg Global Leader, among others, she spent a year at Harvard in 2017 as an Advanced Leadership Fellow.

JOHN W. HOLMESMEMORIAL LECTURE


AGENDA

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019

8:00 – 17:00 REGISTRATION » LOCATION Adam Small Theatre Complex (Foyer)

9:00 – 10:30 WORKSHOP PANELS: SESSION I » LOCATION Arts and Social Sciences Building SEE PAGES: 12–13

10:30 – 11:00 BREAK

11:00 – 12:30 WORKSHOP PANELS: SESSION II » LOCATION Arts and Social Sciences Building SEE PAGES: 14–15

12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

13:30 – 13:55 BOOK PRESENTATIONHenning Melber (2019) Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations and the Decolonisation of Africa

» LOCATION Adam Small Theatre Complex (Auditorium)

14:00 – 15:30 JOHN W. HOLMES MEMORIAL LECTURE

SOCIAL JUSTICE TRANSCENDING INEQUALITIES » Thuli Madonsela, Chair, Law Faculty Trust for Social Justice;

Professor, Stellenbosch University


15:30 – 16.00 BREAK

16:00 – 17.30 WORKSHOP PANELS: SESSION III » LOCATION Arts and Social Sciences Building SEE PAGES: 16–17

» EVENTS on June 20 will be at the Arts and Social Sciences Building and the Adam Small Theatre Complex


THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL ON THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM

is pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Dissertation Award

CATRIONA STANDFIELDPhD Candidate, Department of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

2019 DISSERTATION AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT

for her dissertation entitled,

Gender and Legitimacy in United Nations Mediation

AWARDS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

THURSDAY – SATURDAY > JUNE 25–27, 2020*London, United Kingdom

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8:30 – 17:00 REGISTRATION » LOCATION Adam Small Theatre Complex (Foyer)

9:00 – 10:30 PLENARY IICrime, Conflict and Development

Moderator: Math Noortmann, Executive Director, ACUNS

Panelists:» Kwesi Aning, Director, Faculty of Academic Affairs & Research, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre» Jean-Luc Lemahieu, Director Division for Policy Analysis and Public Information, UNODC» Ai Kihara-Hunt, Associate Professor at the Graduate Program on Human Security


10:30 – 11:00 BREAK

11:00 – 12:30 WORKSHOP PANELS: SESSION IV » LOCATION Arts and Social Sciences Building SEE PAGES: 18–19

12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH BREAK

13:30 – 15:00 WORKSHOP PANELS: SESSION V » LOCATION Arts and Social Sciences Building SEE PAGES: 20–21

15:00 – 15:30 BREAK

15:30 – 17:00 PLENARY IIIHuman Rights and Democracy: Where does Development fit in?

Moderator: Kurt Mills, Professor, International Relations and Human Rights, University of Dundee

Panelists:» Changrok Soh, Member of the UN Human Rights Council’s

Advisory Committee» Sandra Liebenberg, H.F. Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law and

Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University; Vice-President, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

» Deprose Muchena, Regional Director, Amnesty International’s Southern Africa Regional Office

» Julie Ojiambo, Human Rights, Governance and Democracy Expert


17:00 – 17:45 CLOSING REMARKS» Roger Coate, Chair, ACUNS; Paul D. Coverdell Professor of Public Policy,

Georgia College; Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina


AGENDA

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, JUNE 21 , 2019

» EVENTS on June 21 will be at the Arts and Social Sciences Building and the Adam Small Theatre Complex


PANEL 1.1African Refugees and Post-Conflict African States

LOCATION: Arts 205

Moderator: Heung-Soon Park, Professor, SunMoon University

Panelists:The Misadventure of ‘Korea Aid’: Developmental Soft Power and the Troubling Motives of an Emerging Donor» Suweon Kim, Extraordinary Researcher, University of the Western Cape

Pursuit of Justice and Political Stability in Post-Conflict Africa» Dongsuk Kim, Assistant Professor, Korea National Diplomatic Academy

Discussant:» Youngwan Kim, Associate Professor, Division of Language and Diplomacy, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

PANEL 1.2Between Liberal Peace Models: Lessons from Africa ILOCATION: Arts 208

Moderator: Abel Esterhuyse, Associate Professor, Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science

Panelists:Sierra Leone – an Example of Effective Post-Conflict Reconstruction?» Kwesi Aning, Director of Research, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre

AMISOM – Peace-Missions in a Non-Permissive Environment» Thomas Mandrup, Extraordinary Associate Professor, Stellenbosch University

The Liberal Peacebuilding model in crisis: What alternatives?» Erin McCandless, Professor, Wits University, School of Governance

PANEL 1.3International Civil Service and Global Asymmetries I

LOCATION: Arts 209

Moderator: Henning Melber, Director Emeritus/Senior Adviser, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation

Panelists:Dag Hammarskjöld and the International Civil Service, 1953–1961» Henning Melber, Director Emeritus/Senior Adviser, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation

Trygve Lie and the International Civil Service, 1946-1953» Ellen Ravndal, Research Fellow, Australian National University

The UN Secretary-General and Impartiality in Global Power Asymmetries» Otto Spijkers, Lecturer, Utrecht University School of Law

PANEL 1.4The UN Challenges: 2020 and beyond

LOCATION: Arts 201

Moderator: Alynna Lyon, Professor, University of New Hampshire

Panelists:The US, the UN, and New Nationalisms: Old Truths, New Developments» Roger Coate, Chair, ACUNS; Coverdell Professor of Public Policy, Georgia College

An Innovation Agenda for UN 75: Prospects & Strategies for the Albright-Gambari Commission Proposals » Richard Ponzio, Director, Just Security 2020 Program, The Stimson Center; co-authored with Cristina Petcu, Research Associate, The Stimson Center

Vision and the activities of YALDA in fulfilling the SDGs mandate of the United Nations» Amsalu Getachew Tsige, Branch Coordinator, Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA)

WORKSHOP PANELSS E S S I O N I


9 : 0 0 – 1 0 : 3 0

All workshop sessions will be held in the Arts and Social Sciences Building, Stellenbosch University

P L E A S E N OT E WO R K S H O P PA N E L LO C AT I O N S :


PANEL 1.5SDGs: Development, Gender and Youth

LOCATION: Arts 202

Moderator: Ai Kihara-Hunt, Associate Professor at the Graduate Program on Human Security

Panelists:The Notion of “Visible development” and the Achievement of SDGs in Africa» Gabriel Amvane, Legal Officer, Horizon Amitié

The UN, Africa, the Youth and SDGs 6 and 14: Working Together for a Sustainable Blue Economy» Naomi Ngina, Founder, Go Blue Forum; Post Graduate Diploma In Law Student, Kenya School of Law

25 Years Later: Gendered Challenges in Post-Genocide Rwanda in Achieving SDGs» Nicole Fox, Assistant Professor, California State University Sacramento

The Role of Southern African Development Community as a Regional Economic Community towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals» Mpho Santho, Student, North West University

PANEL 1.6Inspire. Change. Together. UN and African Efforts to Achieve SDG 16

LOCATION: Arts 203

Moderator: Bianca Kopp, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Panelists:» Albert Antwi-Boasiako, Adjunct Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST)

» Eva Mappy Morgan, Assistant Professor, University of Liberia

» Bernard Ntahiraja, Lecturer, Law Faculty of Burundi National University

» Jacqui Poltera, Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg

WORKSHOP PANELS

NOTES

Session I Arts and Social Sciences

Building


PANEL 2.1Governance and International Law in African States

LOCATION: Arts 205

Moderator: Changrok Soh, Professor, Korea University

Panelists:Weakening International Norms in Africa: Revisiting the Controversy of the International Criminal Court’s Africa Bias» Mi Hwa Hong, Assistant Professor, Department of Political

Science and International Relations, Kookmin University

Promoting the Rule of Law for SDG in Africa: A Pathway Analysis of How Local Civil Society Conditions International Rule of Law Promotion» Yong-il Moon, Research Professor Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University

Discussant:» Jinwon Lee, Research Professor, Korea University Human Rights Center

PANEL 2.2Between Liberal Peace Models: Lessons from Africa IILOCATION: Arts 208

Moderator: Thomas Mandrup, Extraordinary Associate Professor, Stellenbosch University

Panelists:South Sudan - an Example of Failed State Building?» Andrews Asamoah, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for

Security Studies (ISS)

South Africa in Car – Doing Defence Sector Reform Unilaterally and on the Cheap» Abel Esterhuyse, Associate Professor, Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science

South Africa and Africa: Between Promise and Peril» Anthoni van Nieuwkerk, Associate Professor, Wits University

PANEL 2.3International Civil Service and Global Asymmetries II

LOCATION: Arts 209

Moderator: Henning Melber, Director Emeritus/Senior Adviser, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation

Panelists:Gender and International Civil Servants: Persistent Inequality in Peace Processes» Cheryl Hendricks, Professor, Africa Institute of

South Africa/HSRC

Carving a Place for South Africans in the International Civil Service» Sithembile Mbete, Lecturer, University of Pretoria

See No Evil, Hear No Evil: International Civil Servants Speaking Truth to Power» Tim Murithi, Head of the Peacebuilding Interventions

Programme, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation

PANEL 2.4Climate Change and Energy: Politics and Sustainability

LOCATION: Arts 201

Moderator: [TBC]

Panelists:Rethinking the role of the African Union in the Harmonization of International Energy Trade and Environmental Protection within the Framework of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change» Vieviene Antifon, Doctoral Candidate, University of

the Witwatersrand

Making Community Energy work in South Africa» Ebenaezer Appies, PhD Candidate, Stellenbosch University

Universal Access to Electricity in Africa» Franz Baumann, Professor, New York University

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Climate Wealth of Nations» Julia Puaschunder, Columbia University, Princeton University

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1 1 : 0 0 – 1 2 : 3 0 All workshop sessions will be held in the Arts and Social Sciences Building, Stellenbosch University



PANEL 2.5Implementing and Achieving the SDGs

LOCATION: Arts 202

Moderator: Charlotte Ku, Professor of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law

Panelists:The SDGs: Laudable, but Extremely Difficult to Explain, Measure and Implement» John Gamble, Distinguished Professor, Pennsylvania State

University; co-authored with Charlotte Ku, Professor of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law

SDGs and SADC: Is Normative Reflexivity a Stabilizing Factor for Good Governance?» Jentley Lenong, Lecturer, University of Johannesburg

Implementing Sustainable Development Projects in Rural Ghana Communities» Grace Akosua Emmanuel, Project Coordinator, Youth Advocates Ghana-YAG

The Work of Thematic SRSGs in and from Africa» Natalie Tröller, Research Assistant, Trier University

PANEL 2.6Cooperation Between International Organizations

LOCATION: Arts 203

Moderator: Cedric de Coning, Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

Panelists:UN-AU-EU Cooperation in Crisis Management: A "Ménage à Trois" for Peace» Philippe Guillot, Professor of International Relations,

French Air Force Academy

Business and Human Rights in African Leaderships» Ayako Inokuchi, Doctoral Student, Osaka University

Africa-Owned, Africa-Driven and Africa-Led: Implementing the UN-AU Partnership Framework to Combat Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin» John-Mark Iyi, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Venda

Taking Stock of UN and AU Constitutionalism: Recent Trends, Challenges, and Possibilities for Cross-Fertilization» Otto Spijkers, University Lecturer, Utrecht University School of

Law

PANEL 2.7Narratives, Discourse and Identities

LOCATION: Arts 204

Moderator: Math Noortmann, Executive Director, ACUNS

Panelists:Diaspora Professionals: Panacea for Africa Social and Economic Development» Stephen Akinbile, Executive Director, African-Canadian

Development Cooperation

Reflecting and Reinforcing Inequalities: the Consequences of Highly Selective Immigration Criteria» Cecilia Cannon, Researcher, Graduate Institute of International

Studies

The International Law and Politics of Water Access: Experiences of Displacement, Statelessness, and Armed Conflict» Carly Krakow, PhD Candidate, London School of Economics

Forced Displacement and its Effects on the Sustainable Development Goals» Grace Ndirangu, Graduate Student, African Nazarene University

WORKSHOP PANELS

NOTES

Session II Arts and Social Sciences Building


PANEL 3.1Mental Health and Subjective Well Being: Towards Building the Quality of Life

LOCATION: Arts 201

Moderator: Sanjeev Sahni, Professor & Principal Director, JIBS, OP Jindal Global University

Panelists:Understanding Subjective Well-Being: Unleashing your Inner Strength» Tithi Bhatnagar, Assistant Professor, JIBS, Jindal

Global University

Continuous Assessments and Emotional Well-being of School Children: Integrating Well-being with School Pedagogy» Mohita Junnarkar, Assistant Professor and Deputy Director,

OP Jindal Global University

Psychosocial and Psychotherapy Training Needs» Manjushree Palit, Assistant Professor, JIBS, Jindal

Global University

Making Developing Nations Happier: Mental Health Awareness and Training Programs for Medical and School Fraternity» Sanjeev Sahni, Professor & Principal Director, JIBS, OP Jindal

Global University

PANEL 3.2Supporting the UN SDGs at Sea

LOCATION: Arts 208

Moderator: Michelle Nel, Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University

Panelists:Sea-Blindness in the War on Terror: How Maritime Activity Drives Political Violence» Maisie Pigeon, Africa Project Manager, Stable Seas

Maritime Security in West and Southern Africa – the Untapped Potential of Cooperation and Corroboration» Mark Blaine, Researcher, SIGLA

Supporting the UNSDGs at Sea» Francois Vrey, Professor, Stellenbosch University

PANEL 3.3Different Lenses for Perspectives on Migration

LOCATION: Arts 205

Moderator: Carly Krakow, PhD Candidate, London School of Economics

Panelists:Migration Flow and Outflow: Why Africa Need to Track and Get it» Akongbowa Bramwell Amadasun, Professor, Federal

University Wukari

Experiences of Sub-Sahara African Migrants from War Torn Zones in Accessing Health Services in the English West Midlands Region, UK » Mathew Nyashanu, Senior Lecturer Nottingham Trent University

"La Pirogue" by Moussa Touré, "Arrêt sur Image" by Gustave Akakpo, the Migration in Cinema and Theatre» João Arthur Pugsley Grahl, PhD Student, University of Brasília

Beyond Aid, Migration and Remittances: are there Other Options for Africa?» Eunice Wangui Stuhlhofer, Licensed Psychotherapist; Doctoral Candidate, Sigmund Freud University Vienna

PANEL 3.4Silencing the Guns: Enhancing UN Engagement in Sustaining Peace in Africa

LOCATION: Arts 209

Moderator: Lisa Otto, Senior Researcher and Lecturer, University of Johannesburg

Panelists:Democracy and Conflict in Africa: Where to from here?» Victoria Graham, Associate Professor, University of

Johannesburg

The Use of Quiet Diplomacy in the Context of Conflict in Africa» Chris Landsberg, University of Johannesburg

Pan-African Agenda over Pan-Nationalism in the UNSC: Africa’s Path Towards Silencing the Guns by 2020» Sandile Moloi, Masters Candidate, University of Johannesburg

Silencing the Guns: the Role of Accountability through ICC Intervention» Westen Shilaho, Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg

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Session III Arts and Social Sciences Building

PANEL 3.5Building Stronger Institutions for Effective Governance

LOCATION: Arts 204

Moderator: Hussein Solomon, Research Fellow, SIGLA, University of Stellenbosch

Panelists:Democratic Governance and Conflict Sensitive Journalism» Virgil Hawkins, Associate Professor, Osaka University

Democratic Oversight of the Security Sector in Africa: Issues, Challenges and Prospects» George Abel Mhango, Lecturer, Mzuzu University

Building Strong Democratic Institutions in Africa: The Role of Civil Society» Gladys Mokhawa, Senior Lecturer, University of Botswana

Discussant:

» Benjamin Mokoena, Lecturer, Stellenbosch University

PANEL 3.6The Role of the United Nations

LOCATION: Arts 202

Moderator: Otto Spijkers, Lecturer, Utrecht University School of Law

Panelists:The Partnership Between the UN and African Union Towards the Operating of Policies» Resego Letlhogile, Master's Candidate, North West University

Institutional Adaption in the 21st Century: The Expectations-Capa-bility Gap and UN Programmes and Funds» Alynna Lyon, Professor, University of New Hampshire

A Guardian of the UN Charter: The Role of the UN Secretary-General» Ellen Ravndal, Research Fellow, Australian National University

PANEL 3.7Public Health and Global Concerns

LOCATION: Arts 203

Moderator: Mónica Serrano, Research-Professor, El Colegio de México

Panelists:Between Isolationism and Globalism: Africa and the World in an Age of Globalization of Public Health» Obijiofor Aginam, Deputy Director/Head, Governance for

Global Health, United Nations University-IIGH

Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Guinea in 2014: Lessons Learnt for Global Health Policy» Yasushi Katsuma, Professor, Waseda University

Dietary Patterns and Linkages to Non-Communicable Diseases in Namibia» Laina Mbongo, PhD Student, University of Namibia

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PANEL 4.1Cyber Security and Data Governance in Africa

LOCATION: Arts 205

Moderator: Noelle van der Waag-Cowling, Researcher, Stellenbosch University

Discussants:» Elmarie Biermann, Extraordinary Professor, Stellenbosch University

» Tendai Marengereke, Lecturer, Harare Institute of Technology; PhD Student, Namibia University of Science & Technology

» Alice Namuli Blazevic, Partner Katende, Ssempebwa & Company Advocates

PANEL 4.2Aligning Taxation with the SDGs: Why and How?

LOCATION: Arts 201

Moderator: Kuzi Charamba, Legal & Compliance Manager, One Earth Future

Panelists:Tax and the SDGs: A Proposal for MNC Profit Allocation» Allison Christians, Stikeman Chair in Tax Law, McGill University Faculty of Law

Creating an African Advantage: Changing the Rules of International Tax One Rule at a Time» Afton Titus, Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town

Justice, the Sustainable Development Goals, and International Tax Reform» Laurens van Apeldoorn, Assistant Professor, Leiden University

PANEL 4.3South Africa and the UNSC

LOCATION: Arts 208

Moderator: Adekeye Adebajo, Professor, University of Johannesburg

Panelists:South Africa’s African Agenda» Adekeye Adebajo, Professor, University of Johannesburg

South Africa on the Security Council: “Spoiler” or Partner?» Nicole Fritz, Chief Executive Officer, Freedom Under Law

South Africa’s Voting Patterns on the UN Security Council» Suzy Graham, Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg

South Africa’s Priorities on the UN Security Council, 2019–2020» Doc Mashabane, Advocate, SA Department of International Relations

Rebuilding Bridges: South Africa’s Role during its Third Term on the UN Security Council» Sithembile Mbete, Lecturer, University of Pretoria

PANEL 4.4Forging Resilient Social Contracts and Sustaining Peace in Africa

LOCATION: Arts 209

Moderator: Erin McCandless, Professor, Wits University, School of Governance

Panelists:Forging Resilient Social Contracts through Statebuilding in Fragile Contexts: The Case of Somalia» Peter de Clercq, Visiting Professor, Wits University

Forging Resilient Social Contracts in the Contexts of Securitised and Captured States: The Case of Zimbabwe» Showers Mawowa, Senior Policy Officer, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Deepening Social Cohesion through Regional Reconciliation in Africa: Sustaining Resilient Social Contracts across Borders» Tim Murithi, Head of the Peacebuilding Interventions

Programme, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation

Analysing Sustainable Peace in Post-apartheid South Africa: Applying a Resilient Social Contract Lens» Hugo van der Merwe, Research Director, Centre for the Study

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PANEL 4.5Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping in Africa

LOCATION: Arts 202

Moderator: Yasuhiro Ueki, Professor, Sophia University

Panelists:Responsibility to Protect and Article 4 of the Constitutive Act of the African Union Nexus: Relevance to Kenya’s 2011 Military Involvement in Somalia» Korwa Adar, Professor, University of Botswana

The United Nations and African Union Partnership in Peacekeeping Missions: The Central African Republic Experience» Aua Balde, PhD Candidate, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa

Is the Collaboration between the MONUSCO and Force Intervention Brigade a Viable Tool to Achieving Peace and Justice?» Prince Motaung, Masters Student, North West University

IDefence Diplomacy and the Quest for Statehood in Africa: The Case of Botswana» Steven Thaga, Student, Stellenbosch University

PANEL 4.6Agenda 2030 and the SDGs

LOCATION: Arts 204

Moderator: Otto Spijkers, Lecturer, Utrecht University School of Law

Panelists:Nigeria Agricultural Policies: Are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Compliant?» Akongbowa Bramwell Amadasun, Professor, Federal

University Wukari; co-authored with Anthony Ejue Egberi, Lecturer, Federal University Wukari

The Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030: A Case Story» Martijn Dalhuijsen, Development Coordination Officer, United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq

Civil Society Engagement for Agenda 2030 in East Africa: Frame Analysis and Stakeholder Mapping» Judyannet Muchiri, PhD Student, Memorial University; co-authored with Gloria Novovic, Doctoral Fellow, University of Guelph

Assessing Women in Rural Areas' Political Participation in Post-Apartheid South Africa» Tshegofatso Hazel Tomodi, Masters Student, North West University

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PANEL 5.1The State of the Security Sector in Africa: Progress or Regress?

LOCATION: Arts 204

Moderator: Anthoni Van Nieuwkerk, Associate Professor, Wits University

Discussants:» Mouctar Diallo, Researcher/PhD Candidate, Wits School of

Governance

» Emmanuelle Lena Mukendi, MM-S, Wits School of Governance

» Ronald Nare, Researcher/PhD Candidate, Wits University

» Lucy Shule, Lecturer, Centre for Foreign Relations, Tanzania

PANEL 5.2SDGs: Inclusion and Achieving and Sustaining Peace in Africa

LOCATION: Arts 205

Moderator: Peter de Clercq, Visiting Professor, Wits University

Panelists:Promoting Peaceful and Inclusive Societies in Africa» Cheryl Hendricks, Professor, Africa Institute of South Africa/HSRC

Addressing Historical Exclusion: A Foundation for Successful SDG Implementation in Liberia» James Suah Shilue, Adjunct Lecturer, University of Liberia

Human Rights and Good Governance as a Basis for Inclusion, and Achieving and Sustaining Peace in Somalia» Linda Nzioki Mbatha, Principal Asst. to the Head of Policy, Fundraising and Communications, IIDA Women's Development Organization

The SDGs Promoting Inclusive Peace and Development: Theories of Change & Rising Evidence» Erin McCandless, Professor, Wits University, School of Governance

PANEL 5.3Cooperation for Building Sustainable PeaceLOCATION: Arts 208

Moderator: Gabriel Amvane, Legal Officer, Horizon Amitié

Panelists:Regional Partnerships in Peacekeeping: Responsibility Implications, Conditionality and Due Diligence» Róisín Burke, Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury

The African Union-United Nations Partnership: Transcending the Clash of Practices and Dialogue of the Deaf in Peace and Security» Tshepo Gwatiwa, Lecturer, University of Botswana;

Research Fellow, Witwatersrand University

UN-AU Multilateral Cooperation in Post Conflict Reconstruction: the Case for an Integrated Peacebuilding Approach» Norman Sempijja, Senior Lecturer, North West University

Financing Peace and Security in Africa: the Role of the UN-AU Partnership» Ueli Staeger, PhD Candidate, Graduate Institute (IHEID), Geneva

PANEL 5.4Managing Peace and Conflict: Prevention or Intervention?

LOCATION: Arts 209

Moderator: Kurt Mills, Professor, International Relations and Human Rights, University of Dundee

Panelists:Achieving Religious Peace Across Africa Through Preventive Diplomacy» Cajetan Ebuziem, Adjunct Professor, Euclid University;

Lecturer, Gregory University

Adaptive Prevention & Conflict Management: Alternative pathways for Silencing the Guns in Africa» Cedric de Coning, Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute

of International Affairs

Training for African Peacekeepers: The Role of International Training Provision to Achieve SDGs Goal 16 (Peace, Justice and Institutions) in Africa» Hiromi Fujishige, Associate Professor, Aoyama

Gakuin University

The “Defining Crisis of our Time” and the United Nations» Marcel Jesenský, Lecturer Université d'Ottawa /

Carleton University

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Session V Arts and Social Sciences Building

PANEL 5.5Pathways to Africa’s Development

LOCATION: Arts 201

Moderator: [TBC]

Panelists:Poverty and Inequality: a Case Study of the Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana» Esther Amankwah, Head of Communications,

Youth Advocates Ghana

Right to Peace: the Role of Africa as a Promoter for the Development of International Norms» Yasue Mochizuki, Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University

Promoting Good Urban Governance and Planning in Africa: The NEPAD Cities Programme» Geoffrey Nwaka, Professor, Abia State University

Similar Experiences but Different Conclusions? A Comparative Analysis of Conceptual Thought and Political Action by Jawaharlal Nehru and Kwame Nkrumah» Simon Schulze, Research Assistant, Trier University

PANEL 5.6Food Security: Making it Achievable

LOCATION: Arts 203

Moderator: Gwenith Cross, Secretariat Manager, ACUNS

Panelists:The Effect of Social Grants on Household Food Security in Secondary Cities in Northern Namibia» Lawrence Kazembe, Lecturer, University of Namibia;

co-authored with Ndeyapo Nickanor, Lecturer, University of Namibia

The Role of Women in Agriculture for Poverty Alleviation in Rural Kenya» Maryleen Micheni, Soil Protection and Rehabilitation Advisor, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

Promoting Human Security as a Guiding Principle of Governance in Africa: The Role of the United Nations Human Security Fund» Yasuhiro Ueki, Professor, Sophia University

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BIOGRAPHIES: PLENARY SPEAKERS

> E S T H E R A M A N K WA HEsther Amankwah is an independent media practitioner, and the Chief Executive Officer of Arrows Communications and Media Consult, a multi-media communications and marketing company which focuses on corporate communications, capacity building training workshops and the production of rural documentaries. Ms. Amankwah, also serves as an Advisory Board Member and a lead trainer for Youth Advocates Ghana (YAG), a Non-Governmental organization based in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Having served in that capacity for over 4 years, her services, advice and direction has helped to shape and change the lives of many youth in the community. Ms. Amankwah, was very instrumental in the organization of the first and the second African Youth Sustainable Development Goals Summit, which attracted the participation of over 420 youth from across 25 countries and 1,400 youth from 48 countries across the African and European countries respectively. Ms. Amankwah holds a Master of Arts Degree in Public Relations from the School of Graduate Studies and Research at the Ghana Institute of Journalism. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology and Information Studies from the University of Ghana, a Diploma in Journalism and Communication Studies from the African University College of Communications and a Certificate in “leading in Public life’ Emerging African Leaders Programme from the University of Cape Town–South Africa.

> K W E S I A N I N GDr. Kwesi Aning is the Director, Faculty of Academic Affairs & Research, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Ghana and Clinical Professor of Peacekeeping Practice at Kennesaw State University, Atlanta. He holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 1998 and a BA (Hons) in History from the University of Ghana in 1986. He has served with the African Union from 2005 to 2007 as the first continental Expert on the Common African Defence and Security Policy (CADSP) and Counter-terrorism located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with responsibility for the African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT). Subsequently, he served as a senior consultant to the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) of the UN in New York and wrote a Secretary-General’s Report for the Security Council on ‘The relationship between the UN and regional Organisations especially the African Union’ in 2008. Dr. Aning has over 150 publications to his credit including books, book chapters, journal articles and policy briefs.

> N A B E E L G O H E E RNabeel Goheer is with the Commonwealth Secretariat in London since 2010, and presently working as Assistant Secretary-General. He specialises in the relevance and reform of international organisations and complex systems. In the last eight years, he has worked closely with Commonwealth member states, coordinated its networks, and supported eminent person groups to rejuvenate the system. Earlier, he worked with other international agencies such as the World Bank, United Nations, and USAID. He studied for PhD at

Cambridge Judge Business School, has affiliation with the Hull University Business School as a Distinguished Fellow, and also lectures at Oxford and Middlesex Universities.

> A I K I H A R A- H U N TDr. Ai Kihara-Hunt is Associate Professor at the Graduate Program on Human Security and Deputy Director of the Research Center for Sustainable Peace at the University of Tokyo. She also serves as a member of ACUNS Board of Directors. Her main area of research is UN Peace Operations, in particular the UN Police, accountability and human rights. Previously she worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-OHCHR), UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UN Peace Operations in Timor-Leste/East Timor among others. Her publications include: Holding UNPOL to Account: Individual Criminal Accountability of United Nations Police Personnel (Brill, 2017).

> J E A N - LU C L E M A H I E UMr. Lemahieu was appointed Director of the Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs (DPA) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in December 2013. Before taking up this position in Vienna, he gained 20 years of field experience, serving in various countries challenged by political economies heavily dependent on drug cultivation, including Afghanistan and Myanmar, and in transit regions such as Central Asia and the Caribbean. His first appointment with the United Nations dates back to 1990, as a Junior Professional Officer with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) assigned to the Republic of Korea.

> S A N D R A L I E B E N B E R GProf Sandra Liebenberg (BA LLB (UCT); LLM (Essex); LLD (Witwatersrand)) is HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Stellenbosch. She previously served as Chair of the Technical Committee advising the Constitutional Assembly on the drafting of the Bill of Rights in the 1996 Constitution of South Africa. She has published widely in the field of socio-economic rights, and has been active in a number of non-governmental organisations working to promote the realisation of these fundamental rights both within South Africa and internationally. She is the author of the monograph, Socio-Economic Rights: Adjudication under a Transformative Constitution (2010, Juta & Co) and co-editor of Law and Poverty: Perspectives from South Africa and Beyond (Juta & Co, 2011). In 2016 she was elected as a member of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the body that supervises compliance by States Parties with their obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966). She is currently Vice-President of this Committee.


BIOGRAPHIES: PLENARY SPEAKERS

> C A R LO S LO P E SCarlos Lopes is a Professor at the Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town and Visiting Professor at Sciences Po, Paris. He has led several UN institutions such as UN System Staff College, UNITAR and the UN Economic Commission for Africa. Lopes has also been UN Resident Coordinator in Zimbabwe and Brazil and Political Director for UN SG Kofi Annan. He left the UN with the rank of Under-Secretary General in 2016 to resume his academic career. He is also a member of the African Union Reform Team, led by Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, and doubles as the AU’s High Representative for Partnerships with Europe. Widely published his latest book is Africa in Transformation. Economic Development in the age of doubt (Palgrave McMillan, 2019).

> K U R T M I L L SKurt Mills is Professor of International Relations and Human Rights at the University of Dundee. He was previously Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights at the University of Glasgow, and has also taught at the American University in Cairo, Mount Holyoke College, James Madison University, and Gettysburg College, and served as the Assistant Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College. He is the founder of the human rights section of the International Studies Association. His work addresses questions related to humanitarianism, international criminal justice and the responsibility to protect, with a regional focus on sub-Saharan African. He is the author of two books – Human Rights in the Emerging Global Order: A New Sovereignty? and, most recently, International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Responsibility to Protect, Prosecute and Palliate (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015); co-editor of four books – Human Rights Protection in Global Politics: Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Moral Victories: The Ethics of Winning Wars (OUP, 2017), Human Rights and Justice: Philosophical, Economic, and Social Perspectives (Routledge, 2018), and Accessing and Implementing Human Rights and Justice (Routledge, 2018); and author of numerous articles and book chapters.

> M O R N É M O S T E R TDr Morné Mostert is the Director of the Institute for Futures Research at Stellenbosch University. He advises globally on Futures-based executive decision-making and cognitive development for senior leaders and has worked i.a. in London, Paris, Madrid, Dijon, Abu Dhabi, Azerbaijan, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and several African countries (Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Lesotho, Nigeria, Botswana, Swaziland, Tunisia and Mauritius). Subsequent to his PhD in the Management of Technology and Innovation, his areas of specialisation include Futures Thinking, Strategic Thinking, Systems Thinking and Creative Innovation. He is the Chairman of media tech start-up Africa Business Radio. Dr Mostert is a regular keynote speaker and frequent guest on radio and television in the business media. He is the author of the influential book Systemic Leadership Learning – Leadership Development in the Era of Complexity, which has been the

prescribed text for several international programmes on strategic leadership. He is a member of the ILO international panel of experts on the Future of Work.

> D E P R O S E M U C H E N ADeprose Muchena is the Regional Director for Amnesty International’s Southern Africa Regional Office (SARO) based in Johannesburg. He leads a team of campaigners, researchers and communication experts, working to end grave human rights abuses across the Southern Africa region. Over this period, Amnesty has strengthened its focus on root causes of rights abuses in themes affecting the region, including socio-economic rights, business and human rights, justice and accountability, while retaining a sharp focus on human rights defenders, freedom of expression and assembly agenda in the context of a shrinking space for civil society. Prior to joining Amnesty, Deprose served as Deputy Executive Director and Head of Programmes, at Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), a grant making foundation promoting open society ideals. A native of Zimbabwe, Deprose brings experience in civil society leadership, human rights advocacy, governance and economic justice. He is Board Chair of the Southern Africa Resources Watch (SARW).

> M AT H N O O R T M A N NProfessor Math Noortmann serves as the Executive Director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). Math is Professor in Transnational Law and Non-State Actors in the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) at Coventry University, which he joined in November 2014. Before that he held teaching and research positions at Universities in the Netherlands, Singapore, Germany, and the UK. Holding a PhD in International Law and a MSc in Political Science, his research is informed by a transdisciplinary understanding of the function of politics and law in global governance. He is particularly interested in the delicate balance between the need for societal security and order and the protection of human dignity. His current research focuses on the roles, rights and responsibilities of non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations, the role of private security companies in the organization of (global) security governance, human dignity, and transnational (organised) crime. Math has worked with and within non-governmental organizations in the fields of environment, development and humanitarian aid, and managed academic and societal projects in Romania, Indonesia and South-Africa. He is affiliated with the Security Institute for Governance and leadership in Africa of Stellenbosch University and is the editor-in-chief of the Routledge Series on Non-State Actors in International Law, Politics and Governance. His most recent research projects investigate maritime crimes, and illegal fishing in Indonesia and ‘imaginative scenario planning for law enforcement organizations, and his most recent and forthcoming publications address, transnational law, NGOs, and private security in South Africa.


> J U L I E OJ I A M B OJulie Ojiambo is a Human Rights Practitioner, Policy and Governance Analyst from Kenya.She is interested in the issues of Global Governance, Diplomacy and Human Rights; particularly the rights of women and girls in the region of Africa. Julie’s interest in advocating for the rights of women and girls has been sparked by the professional, scholarly and lived experiences she has been exposed to; having observed the inequalities these vulnerable groups face in their lives. Julie is currently working at the Women’s and Governance Team of the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya. She previously worked as a Governance, Human Rights and Democracy expert, during her time serving as an African Union Youth Volunteer, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her other professional experiences include her time interning and volunteering at, Human Rights Watch: Africa Division and the Clinton Foundation’s “No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project”. She has recently completed pursuing a Masters degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford. She holds an Honor’s Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a minor in Human Rights and African Studies from the City University of New York, Hunter College. She looks forward to interacting and charting ways forward to realizing the Sustainable Development Goals, in the course of the ACUNS conference on the UN and Africa: Progress Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

> C H A N G R O K S O H

Dr. Changrok Soh is currently a professor of the Graduate School of International Studies and the Director of Human Rights Center in Korea University. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of UN Human Rights Council and the President of Human Asia (a Human Rights NGO). Dr. Soh has thrived to reflect his research on human rights into the practice through his role as an independent UN and NGO expert. After graduating from the Department of International Relations at Seoul National University, he received his PhD as well as MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

> G E S I E VA N D E V E N T E RAdvocate Gesie van Deventer is an accomplished wine maker, agriculturalist, lawyer and politician. She has had a distinguished career in the South African Legal System as a Public Prosecutor, Advocate and Magistrate. Her passion for farming however led her to study viniculture. This earned her several awards through the years including Wine make of the year (best Shiraz producer), Farmer of the Year in the Western Cape and Top Exporter’s Female Farmer of the year. Advocate van Deventer is actively involved in her community and has championed the cause of especially the rural community serving amongst others as the Director and Chairperson for Rural Empowerment Foundation. Her dedication to improving the lives of South Africans led her to politics. She was elected as the Executive Mayor for the neighbouring Drakenstein Municipality in 2011. In 2016 she became Mayor of the Greater Stellenbosch where she works hard to provide opportunity and upliftment for the entire community.


BIOGRAPHIES: WORKSHOP PANELISTS

> KORWA ADARKorwa Gombe Adar is Professor of International Studies, Department of Political and Administrative Studies, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. He received his BSc and MSc in Political Science at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States; followed by MA and PhD in International Studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States. He is the author of many articles published in internationally recognized refereed journals as well as numerous peer reviewed book chapters. His areas of research interests include: International Relations Theory; African International Relations; Foreign Policy Analysis; Human Rights; and International Law & Organization. His recent co-edited volumes include: Building Regionalism from Below: The Role of Parliaments and Civil Society in Regional Integration in Africa (2018); African Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Leadership: Reflections of Diplomats and Scholars (2016); Cooperative Diplomacy, Regional Stability and National Interests: The Nile River and Riparian States (2011); State of Africa: Parameters and Legacies of Governance and Issue Areas (2010).

> ADEKEYE ADEBAJO Adekeye Adebajo is the Director of the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa

> OBIJIOFOR AGINAMObijiofor Aginam, PhD, is Assistant Director and Head of Governance for Global Health, United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health in Kuala Lumpur, and concurrently Adjunct Research Professor of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, and Visiting Professor in the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), University of Tokyo. He was Senior Research Fellow at the UN University headquarters, Tokyo (2007-2013); Professor of international Law (with tenure) at Carleton University, Ottawa (2001-2007), and Global Health Officer, World Health Organization, Geneva (1999-2001). He has been a fellow of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) of New York on ‘Global Security and Cooperation’, 21st Century Trust on ‘Disease and Security’, and World Health Organization (WHO) on ‘Global Health Leadership’. Dr Aginam has served on the expert advisory panels of WHO and FAO on aspects of trade, governance, food safety, biotechnology, and public health involving field missions to Bangladesh and Lao People’s Democratic Republic. He has been a visiting professor in universities in Italy, Costa Rica, South Africa, Japan and Nigeria, and currently represents the United Nations University in the UN Inter-agency Taskforce on Non-communicable Diseases. He holds a PhD from University of British Columbia, and is the author of Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World (2005) and other books.

>STEPHEN AKINBILE Stephen Akinbile is a Business Development Executive and Community Development Planner with knowledge and understanding on Strategies of Business Development Planning, Retention and Expansion. He has over 15 years of experience in International Project Development and Relationship Management. Stephen also has experience with not-for-profit organization operations and management in Canada, Israel and Africa. Stephen

has authored practical oriented publications on income generating activities. He has knowledge of Micro-finance and is an expert in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Creation, development and sustainability. Stephen is passionate about poverty alleviation activities through wealth creation.

> AKONGBOWA AMADASUNAkongbowa Bramwell Amadasun, PhD, is a Professor of Public Administration and Political Economy in the Department of Public Administration, Federal University Wukari, Wukari, Taraba State. His area of research interest is in Political Economy, International Financial Economics, Public Financial Administration and Chinese Studies. He holds a PhD Degree in Public Administration; Master’s Degrees in Public Administration, Accounting, Business Administration, and Energy and Petroleum Economics; Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science; and a BSc Degree in Accountancy. He is a member of several professional associations in accounting and management. He has attended and presented papers in over 30 national and international conferences. In addition, he has over 75 publications and 20 editorials in diverse areas such as Public Sector Administration, International Financial Economics, Political Economy, National Development and Economic Management, Public Financial Management, Public Finance, Public Health, Chinese studies etc. He has served on the editorial board of several academic and professional journals, including The Certified National Accountant where he served as The Chairman Board of Editors/Editor-in-Chief. He is also a Visiting Professor of Public Administration and Accounting to Taraba State University, Jalingo, Taraba State, Nigeria and Renaissance University, Agbani, Enugu State, Nigeria respectively.

> ESTHER AMANKWAHEsther Amankwah is an independent media practitioner, and the Chief Executive Officer of Arrows Communications and Media Consult, a multi-media communications and marketing company which focuses on corporate communications, capacity building training workshops and the production of rural documentaries. Ms. Amankwah, also serves as an Advisory Board Member and a lead trainer for Youth Advocates Ghana (YAG), a Non-Governmental organization based in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Having served in that capacity for over 4 years, her services, advice and direction has helped to shape and change the lives of many youth in the community. Ms. Amankwah, was very instrumental in the organization of the first and the second African Youth Sustainable Development Goals Summit, which attracted the participation of over 420 youth from across 25 countries and 1,400 youth from 48 countries across the African and European countries respectively. Ms. Amankwah holds a Master of Arts Degree in Public Relations from the School of Graduate Studies and Research at the Ghana Institute of Journalism. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology and Information Studies from the University of Ghana, a Diploma in Journalism and Communication Studies from the African University College of Communications and a Certificate in “leading in Public life’ Emerging African Leaders Programme from the University of Cape Town–South Africa.


> GABRIEL AMVANEGabriel Amvane is a legal officer at Horizon Amitie in Strasbourg (France). He previously worked with the Permanent Mission of the Gabonese Republic to the United Nations from September 2010 to December 2011. At the time, Gabon was a non-permanent member of the Security Council. He then worked for Gabon to the Security Council. He holds a PhD in public international law. He specialized in the maintenance of international peace and security. Gabriel Amvane is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).

> KWESI ANINGKwesi Aning is the Director, Faculty of Academic Affairs & Research, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Ghana and Clinical Professor of Peacekeeping Practice at Kennesaw State University, Atlanta. He holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 1998 and a BA (Hons) in History from the University of Ghana in 1986. He has served with the African Union from 2005 to 2007 as the first continental Expert on the Common African Defence and Security Policy (CADSP) and Counter-terrorism located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with responsibility for the African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT). Subsequently, he served as a senior consultant to the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) of the UN in New York and wrote a Secretary-General’s Report for the Security Council on ‘The relationship between the UN and regional Organisations especially the African Union’ in 2008. Dr. Aning has over 150 publications to his credit including books, book chapters, journal articles and policy briefs.

> VIEVIENE ANTIFON Vieviene Antifon is a Doctoral Candidate in the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand. She also holds a Master’s Degree in International Commercial Law from the University of Exeter. She is an admitted Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court Nigeria, and has been a member of the Nigerian Bar in good standing since 2011. In 2010- 2011, she interned with the Nigerian Law Reform Commission Abuja rendering research and advisory assistance on some projects, such as the reform of national sentencing guidelines for Judges, reform of commercial law and sale of goods law, and human rights legislation at the Nigerian Law Reform Commission headquarters in Abuja. From 2016 to 2018, she was Legal Counsel in a private law firm in Calabar engaging in court advocacy on criminal, commercial and family disputes. Vieviene is passionate about public speaking, writing and storytelling. Her ongoing PhD research focuses on international environmental law, energy law, international environmental law, sustainable development law, accountability in the oil and gas industry, renewable energy law, and climate change mitigation across the globe.

> ALBERT ANTWI-BOASIAKOAlbert Antwi-Boasiako is the National Cybersecurity Advisor for the Government of Ghana and an adjunct lecturer of Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism & Digital Forensics, at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. Albert is also a Cyber Security Expert with the Interpol Global Cybercrime Expert Group (IGCEG) and the Founder of e-Crime Bureau, a cyber-security and forensics firm based in Accra, Ghana with operations across Africa. He is also an Expert with the Council of Europe’s Global Action on Cybercrime Extended (GLACY+). Albert completed his PhD Research at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is a graduate of the University of Trento in Italy and the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. Antwi-Boasiako has previously conducted cyber security-related consulting and research for a number of international and local organizations including the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC), Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG)/Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money

Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), and the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), among others. Antwi-Boasiako has a number of publications covering information technology, cybercrimes, data protection, digital forensics and cyber security to his credit. In addition, he has delivered presentations and papers at major local, regional and international conferences and workshops.

> EBENAEZER APPIESEbenaezer Appies's PhD dissertation looks at Economic Development in South Africa's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme (REIPPPP). He has worked on Corporate Governance, Environmental Infrastructure and Environmental Services Projects at the City of Joburg Municipality, City of Cape Town Municipality, and the Department of Environmental Affairs. He has also been involved in Strategic Communication Projects with Greenpeace Africa, and is currently a board member of Project 90 by 2030, a South African-based environmental non-governmental organisation. His research interests include Energy Policy, Social Justice, Decolonisation, and Science Communication. He holds a Masters of Philosophy (Sustainable Development) degree from Stellenbosch University.

> ANDREWS ATTA-ASAMOAHAndrews Atta-Asamoah is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Pretoria. He holds a PhD in Political Studies from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, a Master of Arts degree in International Affairs from the University of Ghana, and a bachelor’s degree from the University for Development Studies (UDS), Ghana. Prior to his current position, he was a Research Associate at the Research Department of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Ghana. He conducts research and policy analysis on African peace and security issues and has authored numerous reports, articles and book chapters. He has also offered several high profile policy briefings on African issues to various African and international stakeholders. His research interests cut across issues of terrorism, small arms and light weapons proliferation in Africa, environmental security and climate change, conflict analysis, transnational security & statehood in Africa, drug trafficking, and African peace and security issues generally.

> AUA BALDE Aua Balde is a PhD researcher at Católica Global School of Law, in Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests are International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law. She is a lawyer by training and a member of the Portuguese and Bissau-Guinean Bar Associations. She holds an LL.M degree with specialization in International Human Rights Law from Harvard Law School. Prior to starting her PhD studies, Aua worked for the United Nations in UNIOGBIS, UNOCI and MINUSCA. She is the author of the book ‘O sistema africano de direitos humanos e a experiência dos Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa’ which features the African human rights system.

> FRANZ BAUMANNFranz Baumann spent most of his professional life as a United Nations official. His last assignment was Special Adviser on Environment and Peace Operations with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General. He left the United Nations at the end of 2015 and joined New York University in 2017 as a Visiting Research Professor. He is a Senior Fellow and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. He started his career at the European Parliament in Luxembourg in 1976 before transferring to the European Commission in Brussels and eventually taking a research job with Siemens in Munich. In 1980, he joined the United Nations and, during more than three decades, served in four cities on three continents in a variety of functions. In 2009, he was


appointed as Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management at Headquarters in New York. His doctorate in Political Science (African Studies) was obtained from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

> ELMARIE BIERMANNElmarie Biermann is the Director of the Cyber Security Institute that provides services and training within the Cyber Security domain. Obtaining a PhD in Computer Security at the University of South Africa enabled her to gain specialist security experience in both the private and academic sectors. She currently holds an Adjunct Professorship at the French South African Institute of Technology in Cape Town to assist in growing Security as a research field in the Nano-satellite environment, as well as an Extraordinary Associate Professorship in the Department OF Strategic Studies, Faculty of Military Sciences at the University of Stellenbosch.

> TITHI BHATNAGARTithi Bhatnagar is a Psychologist by training and a Well-Being and Happiness Researcher and Teacher by Profession. Her doctoral research was in the area of Subjective Well-Being (SWB). Besides SWB, the areas of her research interest are: Positive Psychology, Quality-of-Life, Happiness, Psychometrics, and Leadership. Her professional experience is a mix of Industry, Freelancing, and Academics. She is serving on Industry Research Board as a Social Scientist and has been invited by several organizations as a Speaker on their Panels and as a Resource Person. She has presented research papers in several national and international conferences. Her dissertation had been shortlisted for the best dissertation award at the International and National levels. She has been awarded with various scholarships and awards, including being highlighted as the “Member of the Month” by the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies” in 2016. She was the Gold Medalist for her Master’s degree and Silver Medalist for her Bachelor’s degree.

> MARK BLAINEMark Blaine is an active member of the South African Navy, which he joined in 1983, and has been a researcher in the maritime security field with the Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa (SIGLA) since 2012. His underwater speciality in the SA Navy led to two terms of command and the appointment as Defence Advisor to Kenya from 2007 to 2011. In his capacity as researcher for SIGLA, he has attended various maritime security conferences and seminars and contributed to peer-reviewed journals and chapters in this regard. He completed his master’s degree in Maritime Security at the Coventry University in 2016, and is currently a lecturer for nautical science at the Faculty of Military Science of the University of Stellenbosch.

> ALICE NAMULI BLAZEVICAlice Namuli Blazevic is a Partner at Katende, Ssempebwa & Company Advocates. She has over 15 years’ experience in Commercial and Corporate Transactions, specialising in Projects and Infrastructure Finance, PPP’s and the Energy Sector. She also specialises in Technology Law with a keen interest in Artificial Intelligence and the law, Blockchain Technology and the Cryptocurrency industry. She represents several Fintechs and Blockchain Technology-based businesses that are reshaping the mode of doing business in Africa and Europe. She has experience in cross-border transactions where she has advised various large multinational joint ventures within Uganda and across East, South, and West Africa. Ms Namuli Blazevic is the chairperson of the Uganda Legal Tech Network and the former Vice President of the Uganda Law Society. She serves as the Uganda Country Leader for Legal Business Women For Africa (LABFA), a multi-jurisdictional

network of women transactional lawyers and corporate leaders in Africa and beyond. She is an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow, a Commonwealth Fellow, and a University of Oxford Said Business School Fellow. In 2015, she worked with Hogan Lovells LLP UK.

> RÓISÍN BURKERóisín Burke obtained her PhD in 2012 at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, University of Melbourne. She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury School of Law. She authored Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Military Contingents: Moving Beyond the Current Status Quo and Responsibility under International Law (Brill/Nijhoff 2014). She is an Attorney at Law in New York State and Editor of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law. Her research interests are in the areas of international criminal law, international humanitarian law, peace operations, peace building, rule of law, gender justice and public international law.

> CECILIA CANNONCecilia Cannon is a researcher at the Graduate Institute's Global Governance Centre. She is currently working on a Swiss National Science Foundation project examining UN Reform and Effectiveness, and lectures in the Graduate Institute's Interdisciplinary Programmes. Her broader research interests focus on the role and influence of non-state actors in international policy processes, and migration policy. She served as Head of Research for the Global Governance Centre until December 2017, and directs the Graduate Institute's Summer and Winter Programmes on the United Nations and Global Challenges. Cecilia previously worked for the Global Detention Project – an inter-disciplinary research endeavour that investigates the role detention plays in states’ responses to global migration. She also has professional experience in developing and executing communication and advocacy strategies for government, non-governmental and private sector organisations, and continues to advise organisations on their advocacy, monitoring and evaluation projects.

> KUZI CHARAMBAKuzi Charamba is the Compliance Manger at One Earth Future, where he handles all of the foundation’s legal and regulatory matters across relevant jurisdictions and provides strategic advice for program development and international expansion. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a PhD in Law from McGill University in Canada. His doctoral research focused on global governance and access to remedies for human rights violations in the private military and security industry. Prior to his doctorate, Kuzi obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) with European Legal Studies from King’s College London, a Diplôme in International, European and Comparative Law from Université de Strasbourg (Robert Schuman), and a Master of Laws (LL.M) from McGill University. He is currently a Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Colorado Boulder Law School focusing on the democratization of law and global governance processes through emergent technologies.



> ALLISON CHRISTIANSAllison Christians is Associate Dean (Research), Full Professor, and the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation at the McGill University Faculty of Law. Her research and teaching focus on national and international tax law and policy issues, with emphasis on the relationship between taxation and economic development and on the role of government and non-government institutions and actors in the creation of tax policy norms. She has written numerous scholarly articles, essays, and book chapters, as well as editorials, columns, and articles in professional journals, addressing national and international tax law and policy issues. She has a global reputation as a top figure in international tax policy and has received recognition for her scholarly work as well as her knowledge dissemination through social media.

> ROGER COATERoger Coate is Paul D. Coverdell Professor of Public Policy at Georgia College and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former Director of the Walker Institute of International Studies at the University of South Carolina. He is also Chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System. He has served as member of the Secretary-General’s Advisory Panel on Housing Rights, Fellow at the UN Centre for Human Rights, and member of the U.S. National Academy of Science’s Board of International Scientific Organizations. Books include: Identity Politics in an Age of Globalization and United Nations Politics: Responding to a Challenging World.

> MARTIJN DALHUIJSENMartijn Dalhuijsen is a Liaison Officer with the Development Coordination Office at the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq. He has a Master's Degree in Communication Science from the Universiteit van Amsterdam and has a passion for the Sustainable Development Goals.

> PETER DE CLERCQPeter de Clercq of the Netherlands is the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia (UNSOM) as well as the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator. From 15 April 2019 onwards, he will serve as visiting adjunct Professor at Wits University in Johannesburg for three years in the School of Governance. Mr de Clercq possesses solid experience in managing political processes, security sector development, operations and emergency management, protection of civilians and rule of law, as well as mobilisation and management of humanitarian and development assistance. His previous assignment was that of Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). Prior to that, he served as Senior Adviser to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia and Deputy Special Representative for Somalia for the UN Political Office for Somalia. He has also served as UNRC and HC ad interim in Sudan and worked with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for 27 years, during which time he held various positions in its Headquarters in Geneva and Budapest, as well as in field assignments in Angola, Pakistan, Sudan and Zimbabwe. He was also seconded to the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to UNDP in Sudan. Mr de Clercq holds a master’s degree in development sociology from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands and is a graduate of the Netherlands’ Institute for International Affairs “Clingendael” in The Hague.

> CEDRIC DE CONINGCedric de Coning is a Senior Research Fellow with the Peace, Conflict and Development Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), where he also co-convenes the NUPI Center on UN and Global Governance. He is also a Senior Advisor for the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of

Disputes (ACCORD) and he has served in various advisory positions in the African Union and United Nations, including to the High Representative of the African Union Peace Fund, the head of the AU’s Peace Support Operations Division, and on the UN Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund Advisory Group. He holds a PhD in Applied Ethics from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He has published edited books on topics such as the BRICS and coexistence (Routledge, 2015); the future of African peace operations (Zed Books, 2016); UN peacebuilding (Routledge, 2016); complexity and peacebuilding (Palgrave, 2016); UN peace operations doctrine (Routledge, 2017), rising powers and peacebuilding (Palgrave, 2017), and UN peace operations in a changing global order (2019)

> MOUCTAR DIALLOMouctar Diallo has a BA and a Master in International Relations and Anthropology from the American University in Cairo, Egypt. For the last nine years, he has been conducting research in West Africa and the MENA regions. He is currently a PhD candidate and instructor at the WITS School of Governance and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Defense and Security Management (CDSM), both in Johannesburg South Africa. Mr Diallo is also an adjunct professor at Syracuse University in New York. His research and academic interests revolve around political ethnography as pertaining to state formation, security, state-society relations in (West) Africa and MENA. His latest publications are ‘Solving SA’s Student Protests Must Start with Meaningful Engagement’ (2016) in ISS Today and ‘SA’s Political Elite Have Lost the Moral Authority to Solve Social Problems’ (2016) in Rand Daily Mail.

> CAJETAN EBUZIEMCajetan Ebuziem, a Roman Catholic Priest from Okigwe Diocese, Nigeria, is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Theology and Interfaith Studies, EUCLID (Euclid University). He is also the University Chaplain as well as Associate Dean, College of Humanities at Gregory University, Uturu, Nigeria, where he teaches Philosophy, Logic, and Human Existence. He holds a Post-Doctoral Diploma in Education (PDDE) from Imo State University Owerri, Nigeria (2018), a PhD in Interreligious Dialogue and Diplomacy from Euclid University (2017) a Doctor of Ministry (D.MIN.) from Catholic Theological Union at Chicago (2007), a Bachelor of Sacred Theology (B.D) from Urban University, Rome (1996), and a Bachelor of Philosophy (B.PHIL.) from Urban University, Rome (1991). He is a member of World Congress of Faiths, London, UK.

> ANTHONY EJUE EGBERIAnthony Ejue Egberi is a Lecturer l in the Department of Public Administration Federal University Wukari, Wukari Nigeria. He is a young researcher whose area of research interest have being on Development Administration. As a Lecturer, courses he have taught include: Research Method, Statistics for Public Administration, Public Policy Making and Analysis, etc. In the area of publications, Mr Egberi has 20 journal-published articles both foreign and national, 10 finished research including two co-author textbooks awaiting publication. Mr Egberi is a PhD student.

> GRACE AKOUSA EMMANUELGrace Akosua Emmanuel is an educator, artist, Child right / Girl Child Advocate, counselor and an Entrepreneur. Her work spans over 20 years in human development. Prior to her selection as Project Coordinator at Youth Advocates Ghana (YAG). She has also served as a volunteer with Nigerian Red Cross Society, Ghana Red Cross Society as a Counselor, Christian Medical Missions Resource Foundation (CMRF) as a Counselor and Programs Coordinator. Working as a volunteer with Youth Advocates Ghana coupled with her experiences with previous organizations and experience in youth advocacy, foster care, and education rights. Her work includes research and writing on human rights violations against children, policy advocacy, and


building partnerships with communities. She relies on the leadership of people directly impacted by human rights violations to determine the direction of her work. Since 2013, her leadership role in the organization has resulted in visible results in communities YAG has worked. Her communication strategies with the youths and girls in the communities have reduced teenage pregnancy and illiteracy among the youths and have promoted seeing more potential in young people.

> ABEL ESTERHUYSEAbel Esterhuyse is an associate professor of strategy in the Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University at the South African Military Academy. Holding a PhD from Stellenbosch University and an MSS from Pretoria University, he is also a graduate of the summer programme in military history at the US Military Academy, West Point, and the programme on the analysis of military operations and strategy (SWAMOS) of Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. Before joining the Faculty of Military Science, Professor Esterhuyse served as a lieutenant colonel in the South African Army. He teaches a wide variety of courses in the School for Security and Africa Studies of Stellenbosch University, regularly publishes on contemporary military issues and has a keen interest in (South African) military history. He served for five years as the editor of Scientia Militaria: The South African Journal of Military Studies. His most recent publication focused on ‘South Africa and the Search for Strategic Effect in the Central African Republic’.

> NICOLE FOXNicole Fox, PhD is an assistant professor at California State University, Sacramento in the Criminal Justice Division. She is also a Researcher at Prevention Innovations Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. Her research focuses on how racial and ethnic contention impacts communities, including the ways remembrances of adversity shape the dynamics of social change. In her current work, Dr Fox focuses on how post-genocide communities remember violence through the creation of national collective memories embodied in memorials and monuments. Her book, Rebuilding from the Ashes of a Traumatic Past: The Everyday Complexities of Memory and Reconciliation Among Rwandan Genocide Survivors, is currently under contract with University of Wisconsin Press. Her work has been published in Social Forces, Journal for Scientific Study of Religion, Societies without Borders, the International Journal of Sociology of the Family, and Sociological Forum. Her scholarship on memorials in post-genocide Rwanda is funded by the National Science Foundation, The Research Circle on Democracy and Cultural Pluralism, TAG Institute for Jewish Values, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Maurice J. and the Fay B. Karpf & Ari Hahn Peace Endowment. At CSUS, Dr Fox teaches on Comparative Criminal Justice Systems. She also serves as a representative for the UN ECOSOC council and participants in the annual UN Commission for the Status of Women.

> NICOLE FRITZNicole Fritz is the Chief Executive Officer of Freedom Under Law (FUL). She was the founding Executive Director of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC). She is an honorary lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria and at the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Law, and has taught constitutional, international and human-rights law as a faculty member at the Wits School of Law and at Fordham Law School in New York. She served as law clerk to Judge Richard Goldstone at South Africa’s Constitutional Court and obtained her LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand, thereafter completing an LLM in International Legal Studies at NYU Law School as a Hauser Global Scholar. She is a trustee of the Women’s Legal Centre.

> HIROMI FUJISHIGEHiromi Fujishige is an associate professor at Department of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies (GIS) at Hosei University, Tokyo. She is a specialist in security studies/conflict resolution studies. Her familiarity incudes UN and other international peace operations/peacebuilding and the security, conflict and development issues. She has also focused on Japan’s peacekeeping policy as well as UK’s stabilisation policy. She attended postgraduate schools at the University of London, receiving a postgraduate diploma in War Studies from King’s College London, a M.Sc. in International Relations and Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Ph.D. in Political Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). In 2016-2017, she also served as a visiting senior fellow at SOAS and as a visiting fellow at King’s College London. Her recent publications are: Hiromi Fujishige, Constructing a More Active Role: The Norm-Shift and the Rise of Activism in Japan’s Security Policy (Naigai Publisher, 2017), and ‘A New Horizon for Japan’s “Armed Peacebuilders”’? in Y. Tasumi and P. Kennedy eds. Peacebuilding and Japan: Views from Next Generation (Stimson Center, 2017). She is currently co-editing a book (in Japanese) about statebuilding in war-torn states, and preparing to publish an English-written book on Japan’s peacekeeping policy.

> JOHN GAMBLEJohn Gamble received the BA degree (political science and mathematics) from the College of Wooster (Ohio) and the PhD from the University of Washington (Seattle). He was Executive Director of the Law of the Sea Institute at the University of Rhode Island and Head of the Division of Business and the Social Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College. Currently, he is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Law at Penn State Erie. He has been Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School, Senior Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Vice-president of the American Society of International Law. His principal research interests are treaties, information technology and international law, and international law teaching. He is the author of approximately 100 publications. His awards at Penn State include the Behrend College Council of Fellows Research and Teaching Excellence Awards; the W. LaMarr Kopp International Achievement Award; and the Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching. His teaching at Penn State regularly includes American Government, Comparative Politics, International Relations, International Law, and the European Union.

> SUZY GRAHAMSuzanne Graham is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations at UJ and HOD of the Department (2018–2020). In 2002, she co-shared the award for top student of the Faculty of Humanities, UJ. She has been a lecturer at UJ since 2006. Her Master’s research focused on terrorist waves and corresponding terrorist groups. Her doctoral thesis focused on South Africa's voting behaviour in the United Nations, 1994-2008. She is a member of the South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS) and book review editor of the SAAPS Journal Politikon. Dr Graham is a Scientific Committee member of the Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC) Consortium headquartered in Helsinki. Dr Graham specialises in international relations and foreign policy. Her teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels focuses on aspects of international relations such as foreign policy, the United Nations and other international organisations, and international conflict.



> VICKY GRAHAMVicky Graham holds BA, BA Honours, MA, and PhD degrees from the University of Johannesburg. She currently teaches at the University of Johannesburg, before which she spent several years based at Monash University in South Africa. Prof Graham specialises in democracy studies, diplomacy, comparative politics and foreign policy. Other interests include history, human rights, voting behaviour, elections, active citizenship and service learning.

> JOÃO ARTHUR P. GRAHLJoão Arthur P. Grahl is a PhD student in Literature Studies. He studies what we call refugee literature, or art which the theme is based on the migration experience. He is also a French teacher at UFPR (University of Paraná), where he founded, with colleagues, a project to teach Portuguese to refugees in 2013.

> PHILIPPE GUILLOTPhilippe Guillot has an MA in International Conflict Analysis (University of Kent at Canterbury), a PhD in Public Law, and ‘Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches’ (both at the University of Rouen). He is an ACUNS member since 1994. He is a consultant for Brown's University's Humanitarism and War Project and Senior Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Rouen. He is a Visiting Lecturer in several European or Asian universities and at Cheikh Anta Diop Univesity (Dakar, Senegal), at N'Djamena University (Chad), and at Djibouti University. Since 2010, he is Professor of International Relations at the French Air Force Academy (Salon-de-Provence). His main fields of research are international security (mostly peacekeeping, environmental security and counter-terrorism) and European Union's Common Security and Defence Policy. Latest publications in English: ‘The War on Terror and the Protection of Personal Data’ (Montesquieu Law Review, 2015) with Darya Pushkina & Susanna An, and ‘Who Takes Whom to Tango? UN NeoLiberal Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone’, in Bruce Chilton & Robert E. Tully (eds.), Intolerance. Political Animals and Their Prey (Hamilton Books, 2017).

> TSHEPO GWATIWATshepo T. Gwatiwa, PhD is a lecturer at the University of Botswana. He is also a research fellow at Witwatersrand University. He was previously research fellow at the Center for Military Studies, Stellenbosch University. He earned his PhD in International Relations/Political Science (magna cum laude) in 2017 from the Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) in Geneva, Switzerland. His research interests lie in international politics and security, with special focus on African agency in global politics, as well as the role of major powers in African security. He also researches and publishes on security intelligence in African countries. He is the co-editor, with Justin van der Merwe, of the forthcoming Routledge manuscript titled ‘The Expansion of US AFRICOM in Africa: Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy’, and author of the forthcoming Palgrave manuscript titled ‘The AU and African Agency in Global Politics: Major Partnerships and Development’. He also has upcoming journal articles in leading journals such as Intelligence and National Security, Review of African Political Economy, and Survival.

> VIRGIL HAWKINSVirgil Hawkins is an associate professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University, and a visiting professor at the University of the Free State. He is the co-founder of the Southern African Centre for Collaboration on Peace and Security (SACCPS), and the founder of Global News View (GNV). His publications include Stealth Conflicts: How the World’s Worst Violence Is Ignored (Ashgate, 2008).

> CHERYL HENDRICKSCheryl Hendricks is Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). She joined AISA in July 2018. Prior to this she was a Professor at the University of Johannesburg and Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations. She was also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies and worked at the University of the Western Cape. Professor Hendricks is widely published and known especially for her work on gender peace and security. Her areas of specialisation include Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, African Peace and Security Architectures and African Politics.

> MI HWA HONGMi Hwa Hong is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science & International Relations at Kookmin University. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in August 2016. Her specific research interests lie in state commitments to the United Nations human rights mechanisms and states’ activities within those institutions. She examines the consequences of such state involvement in the complex context of multilayered international human rights institutions. She has published, among others, in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Peace Research, the Journal of Human Rights, and the International Interactions.

> AYAKO INOKUCHIAyako Inokuchi is MA in human rights and international public policy. She is currently a Doctoral student in Comparative Public Policy at Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University (Japan) (April 2018-), and a research fellow of Japan Society For the Promotion of Science (April 2018- March 2021), and participating into Cross-Boundary Innovation Program, Osaka University (2015-). She obtained MA in International Public Policy at Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University (Japan) (2015-2018), MA in Theory and Practice of Human Rights at University of Essex (England) (2015-2016), and BA in Law, International Public Policy, at Osaka University (2011-2015). Her research interest includes Conflict Studies, Peace Process, International Relations/Politics, International Human Rights Law, Business and Human Rights, and Global Governance. Her dissertation title for MA at University of Essex is ‘Positive and negative effect of Global Boycotts to realization of human rights at local level’ using the example of the US Dodd-Frank Act and its effect to locals in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her another dissertation title for MA at Osaka University is ‘Improvement of Resource Governance in Rwanda brought by International Conflict Mineral Regulations’ (in Japanese).

> JOHN-MARK IYIJohn-Mark Iyi researches in public international law, humanitarian intervention, human rights, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, the responsibility to protect, international peace and security, terrorism, legal pluralism, democratisation, international economic law and African Union and Africa sub-regional organisations (ECOWAS and SADC). His most recent publications include Humanitarian Intervention and the AU-ECOWAS Intervention Treaties under International Law: Towards a Theory of Regional Responsibility to Protect (Springer International Publishing, 2016), Boko Haram and International Law (Springer International Publishing, 2018, edited with Hennie Strydom); and Developments in International Criminal Law and International Criminal Justice: Perspectives from the Global South (Routledge: London, forthcoming, edited with Avitus Agbor).


> MARCEL JESENSKÝMarcel Jesenský is a historian of international relations and diplomacy. His research focuses on multilateral diplomacy in the 20th century, the United Nations in particular. He teaches courses and seminars on the United Nations, international relations and diplomacy, modern European and world history at University of Ottawa and Carleton University in Ottawa. A former diplomat, he has worked at the United Nations in New York. His second monograph – The United Nations under Ban Ki-moon: Give Diplomacy a Chance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) – reviews the events, decisions and dilemmas related to the United Nations and its Secretary-General in 2007–2016.

> MOHITA JUNNARKARMohita Junnarkar currently working as Assistant Professor and Assistant Director at Jindal Institute of Behavioral Sciences, O. P. Jindal Global University. She has completed her Ph.D. in Psychology from IIT Bombay in 2013 and post-doctoral fellowship from IIT Delhi in 2014. She has about 6 years of research experience and 4 years of teaching experience. Her key teaching areas are applied positive psychology, psychometrics, adolescent development and cognitive psychology and her research areas are eyewitness testimony, psychometrics, and adolescent development. Currently she in the area of eyewitness testimony she is investigating “how can eyewitness memory accuracy be enhanced and what is difference in neuronal pathways for correct identification and misidentification by eyewitness?” in the field of adolescent development she is seeking answers to “how to identify the early signs of languishing mental health of adolescent at home and in school and how to communicate effectively with adolescents on day-to-day basis so that they flourish? Apart from seeking answers to these questions, she is also interested to explore the role of spirituality and wisdom in adolescent’s mental health and how smaller nuances of spirituality can be reached out to adolescents. She has published about 14 research papers in national and international peer reviewed indexed journals in the area of psychometric validation of positive psychology constructs and has a book chapter and two books to her credit. Currently, she is also serving as a reviewer for Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology.

> YASUSHI KATSUMAYasushi Katsuma is Professor and a member of the Board of Trustees at the Waseda University. At the National Center for Global Health & Medicine (NCGM), he is Director of the Department of Global Health Affairs & Governance in the Institute for Global Health Policy Research (iGHP). Previously, he worked for UNICEF. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

> LAWRENCE KAZEMBE Lawrence Kazembe is a professor in the department of statistics and population studies, at the University of Namibia. He has published extensively, with over 80 peer-reviewed publications in population health including food and nutrition security, malaria, HIV and TB research. In 2008, he was recognized as a young scientist by the Malawi National Commission of Science and Technology. In 2009, in Durban-South Africa, he was accorded a young research affiliate award by the Academy of Sciences in Developing Countries (TWAS), and later in the year was acknowledged with an identical medal of young biometrician at the Sub-Saharan Network of International Biometrics Society (SUSAN-IBS) meeting in Nakuru, Kenya. He obtained his PhD in 2007 from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His main research interests are in Bayesian statistical modelling and spatial analysis with applications in population health.

> AI KIHARA-HUNTAi Kihara-Hunt is Associate Professor at the Graduate Program on Human Security and Deputy Director of the Research Center for Sustainable Peace at the University of Tokyo. She also serves as a member of ACUNS Board of Directors. Her main area of research is UN Peace Operations, in particular the UN Police, accountability and human rights. Previously she worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-OHCHR), UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UN Peace Operations in Timor-Leste/East Timor among others. Her publications include: Holding UNPOL to Account: Individual Criminal Accountability of United Nations Police Personnel (Brill, 2017).

> DONGSUK KIMDongsuk Kim is assistant professor at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA). His research area covers civil war, political violence, ethnic politics, and transitional justice, particularly in Africa. He composed research articles including ‘Autocracy, Religious Restriction, and Religious Civil War’, ‘Coup, Riot, War: How Political Institutions and Ethnic Politics Shape Alternative Forms of Political Violence’, and ‘Understanding the Increasing Practices of Seeking Truth and Reconciliation in Africa.’ Dr Kim also wrote policy reports on various issues in sub-Saharan Africa. Before joining the KNDA, he worked as senior researcher at Institute of International and Area Studies, Sogang University, and taught classes at Korea University, Sogang University, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, etc. He received BA in international studies at Creighton University, and MA and PhD in political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

> SUWEON KIMSuweon Kim is extraordinary researcher at University of the Western Cape (South Africa). Her research interests are development, public diplomacy and soft power in the context of Africa-Asia Studies. She has recently published ‘The misadventure of “Korea Aid”: Developmental soft power and the troubling motives of an emerging donor’ at Third World Quarterly. She is currently writing a book Connecting Southern Africa and the Two Koreas: Paths of Reversing Soft Power (Forthcoming, Springer).

> YOUNGWAN KIMYoungwan Kim, PhD is Associate Professor at the Division of Language and Diplomacy, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. He went to Yonsei University for his BA in political science, and got MA in international development from the University of California San Diego. After receiving his PhD in political science from the University of Iowa in 2011, he worked as a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Iowa State University for two years and then as a research professor at Korea University before taking his current position. He also worked as a visiting scholar at the University of California San Diego. His research interests include foreign aid, NGOs, international development cooperation, international organizations, and international law. He also has work experience in the field of international development cooperation with several international organizations such as UNICEF, International Republican Institute, Humanasia, and so on. In addition, he conducted a variety of research and field projects with KOICA, MOFA, and MOU. His representative works have been published in several journals like World Development, Development and Change, Foreign Policy Analysis, Disasters, etc.



> BIANCA KOPPBianca Kopp is a Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer working for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, where she is the Global Coordinator of the university related activities of UNODC’s Education for Justice (E4J) initiative. She has been working for the United Nations since 2010, including the UN Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force, the UN Democracy Fund, and for various sections in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Prior to this, she was working for the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

> CARLY KRAKOWCarly A. Krakow is a PhD candidate in the Department of Law at LSE, where is she a Judge Rosalyn Higgins scholar. Carly earned her BA summa cum laude at NYU in 2016 in Human Rights Law, Environmental Policy, and Comparative Literature, and her MPhil at the University of Cambridge in 2017 in International Relations and Politics. At NYU, she was a Gallatin Global Fellow in Human Rights. The fellowship supported her research in the Palestinian West Bank. She was also recipient of the Richard J. Koppenaal award, the NYU Gallatin School’s highest academic honour. At Cambridge, she served as Vice Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Law Review, and wrote her MPhil thesis, awarded Distinction, on international law regarding water access for people who are stateless and displaced. In addition to her work in the West Bank, where she conducted interviews with civilians, NGO representatives, and UN staff, Ms Krakow has conducted research and fieldwork in locations including Geneva, The Hague, and a refugee camp in Greece. She is an opinion contributor for various publications including openDemocracy. She has presented her work at conferences and events hosted by institutions such as ACUNS, BRISMES, ISA, MESA, NYU, Oxford, and SOAS. Her PhD research focuses on environmental crimes through the perspectives of international justice and political philosophy.

> CHARLOTTE KUCharlotte Ku is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Global Programs and Graduate Studies at the Texas A&M University School of Law. Previously, she was Professor of Law and Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Legal Studies at the University of Illinois College of Law. She served as Acting Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge and was Executive Director and Executive Vice President of the American Society of International Law from 1994 to 2006. Recent publications include “The International Court of Justice,” in The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, 2nd edition (2018), Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws, eds., and with Shirley Scott, she is co-editor of Climate Change and the UN Security Council (Edward Elgar, 2018).

> CHRIS LANDSBERGChris Landsberg is professor and SARChI Chair of African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), and Senior Associate at the UJ School of Leadership. He is the former Head of politics and International Relations at UJ. Mr Landsberg holds Master’s and PhD degrees in International Relations (Oxon). He studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and is a former Hamburg Fellow at Stanford University in the United States (US). Previously, he was director of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) in Johannesburg, and co-founder and former co-director of the Centre for Africa's International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He is a co-editor of seven books, including From Cape to Congo: Southern Africa's Emerging Security Challenges and South Africa in Africa: The Post-Apartheid Era. Landsberg’s single-authored titles include The Diplomacy of Transformation: South African Foreign Policy and Statecraft, and The Quiet Diplomacy of Transition: International Politics and South Africa's Transition.

> JINWON LEEJinwon Lee is a research professor at Korea University Human Rights Center. She received her PhD in International Studies at Korea University. She currently serves on the board of directors for the Korean Association of Human Rights Studies. She has taught courses in International Human Rights, Human Rights in a Globalized World, and International Organization. Her research interests include migration policy, migrants’ integration, and international human rights norms.

> JENTLEY LENONGJentley Lenong obtained the degrees BA (Law), LLB and LLM (cum laude) at the University of Stellenbosch. Since 2014, he has also been a researcher at the National Research Foundation Chair in International Law, hosted at the University of Johannesburg. His primary research interest is in the field of International Law and Constitutional law. He is currently registered for his LLD at the University of Johannesburg where he is interrogating the law and governance regime over shared natural resources within the Southern African Development Community.

> RESEGO REAMOGETSE LETLHOGILEResego Reamogetse Letlhogile holds a BA degree in Political Science and International Relations from the North-West University in 2017, and an Honours degree in International Relations in 2018. She is currently doing her Masters degree in International Relations in the same institution where her study is on “Examining NGO Collaboration in Community Development”. Her research interests are in Human Security and Development, where poverty alleviation is at the heart of her interests. With her work, she hopes to contribute to policy making and implementation that will address the needs and interests of the public, particularly the poor. Her most recent work is her contribution to book chapter “Marketization and Decolonization of Academic Disciplines in Higher Education in South Africa” in The Battle for the Soul of South African Universities: institutional cultures, racism and ideologies by Prof. Itumeleng Mekoa.

> ALYNNA LYONAlynna J. Lyon is a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. She is author of US Politics and the United Nations (Lynne Rienner, 2016), co-author of The United Nations in the 21 Century, 5th ed. (Westview, 2016) with Karen Mingst and Margaret Karns, and co-editor of two books, Pope Francis as a Global Actor: Where Politics and Theology Meet (Palgrave Studies, 2018) and Religion and Politics in a Global Society (Lexington, 2013). She is a former chair of the International Organization section of the International Studies Association (2016-2018), Editor-in-Chief of Global Governance, and a Faculty Fellow for the Office of Senior Vice Provost, Engagement and Faculty Enrichment. She also serves as Faculty Advisor for UNH Model United Nations.

> THOMAS MANDRUP Thomas Mandrup is an Extraordinary Associate Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Associate Professor at Royal Danish Defence College, Denmark. His co-edited books include The African Standby Force – Quo Vadis? (Sun Media, 2017), Towards good order at Sea – African Experiences (Sun Media, 2015), The Brics and Coexistence – an alternative vision of world order (Routledge, 2014), and On Military Culture: Theory, Practice and African Armed Forces (Cape Town University Press, 2013). His recent articles include studies of SSR in Peace-building, AU Peace Missions, and South Africa’s peace mission deployments.


> EVA MAPPY MORGAN

Eva Mappy Morgan is an assistant professor of law in the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia. She obtained her BA from the University of Liberia and LL.B at the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law and an LL.M at Harvard University. She has been Resident Chief Judge at the Commercial Court, Liberia. She is also one of the initial users of the E4J Modules, assisting in providing feedback for further improvement and development of the Modules in classroom settings.

> TENDAI MARENGEREKETendai Marengereke is a Cybersecurity Researcher and Instructor with a passion for Information Security. He has experience in the creation and deployment of solutions protecting networks, systems and information assets. He has conducted emergency incident response as well as penetration tests for various companies, and has been researching into Social Cyber Threats and their detection and prevention methods. Mr Marengereke holds a Master’s Degree from SRM University, Chennai, India, and is a graduate of the Harare Institute of Technology, and Daejeon University South Korea. He holds the following certifications: Certified Ethical Hacker (EC Council), Oracle Certified Java Professional Programmer, and Zimbabwe High Performance Computing Center Usage Certification.

> DOC MASHABANEDoc Mashabane is the Chief Director for UN Political Affairs and International Peace and Security at South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), and served as the country’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations on the UN Security Council during South Africa’s 2011/2012 tenure.

> SHOWERS MAWOWA Showers Mawowa is a political economy scholar and international relations and foreign policy expert based in South Africa. He has over fifteen years of work experience in academia, non-profit sector and multilateral institutions. Dr Mawowa is currently serving as senior policy officer at the Embassy of Netherlands in Pretoria. He is a member of the International Experts Panel (IEP) at the Open Government Partnership’s (OGP) Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM). He has written and published on Zimbabwe’s political economy among other research interests.

> SITHEMBILE MBETE Sithembile Mbete joined the University of Pretoria from The Presidency of South Africa where she was a researcher in the secretariat of the National Planning Commission. She contributed to the drafting of the National Development Plan in the areas of public service reform, anti-corruption policy and community safety. Prior to this she worked as a political researcher at IDASA (Institute for Democracy in Africa) where she was responsible for Parliamentary monitoring and political analysis. At the University of Pretoria, she lecturers international relations and South African politics. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Governance Innovation (GovInn) at the University of Pretoria. She has a doctorate from the University of Pretoria on the subject of South Africa’s foreign policy during its two elected terms in the United Nations Security Council (2007-2008 and 2011-2012).

> LAINA MBONGOLaina Mbongo is a PhD candidate who holds a master degree in Applied Statistics and Demography and has an Honours degree in Population Studies and Geography.

> HENNING MELBERHenning Melber is Director Emeritus/Senior Adviser of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and Senior Research Associate of the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. He is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Political Sciences at University of Pretoria and the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Commonwealth Studies at the Centre for Advanced Study at the University of London, and President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI).

> ERIN MCCANDLESSErin McCandless, Associate Professor in the Wits School of Governance, is a widely published scholar and policy advisor with over two decades of experience working on and in conflict affected settings, broadly on issues of peacebuilding, statebuilding, security, governance, development and resilience, and their intersections. She is Project and Research Director of ‘Forging Resilient Social Contracts’, co-founder and Books Editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and serves as a civil society Co-Chair of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding Implementation Working Group. She consults widely across the United Nations and with other international organisations, and is author of more than fifty publications, including three books – one on polarization and transformation in Zimbabwe, where she lived from 2000-2004.

> GEORGE MHANGOGeorge A. Mhango, a lecturer in the Department of Governance, Peace and Security Studies at Mzuzu University, holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Malawi. He serves as Secretary of the alumni chapter of the ACSS in Malawi. He has participated and contributed to a number of policy and scholarly discourses on regional security architectures, national security policy analysis, and the politics of development in southern Africa. He has developed training modules in Defence Reform and Intelligence Reform for the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) which is ECOWAS’ centre of excellence in peace and security in West Africa. Apart from serving as a trainer in Security Sector Governance and Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector in Malawi, Mr Mhango is also part of a sub-regional network of academics that provide policy insights to the SADC Organ for Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation through the Southern Africa Defence and Security Management (SADSEM) network. For the past six years, he has been undertaking research in peace-making, peacekeeping and peacebuilding in southern Africa under the Southern African Centre for Collaboration on Peace and Security (SACCPS).

> MARYLEEN MICHENIMaryleen Micheni has over 10 years working experience with various development platforms in the areas of rural livelihoods improvement, catchment rehabilitation, value chain for market development and ecological land use, soil protection and rehabilitation for food security, sustainable land management, natural ecosystems; to contribute to improvement of livelihoods, natural resource management, forestry and Climate change sectors management in development. She has a unique blend of skills in capacity building in the areas of Natural environmental resource management, climate change, value chain development for markets and technical expertise in Integrated Water Catchment Management (IWCM) in soil conservation, rehabilitation and protection. Ms Micheni can design and develop diverse programmes aimed at community development for livelihood improvement, networking; while over-seeing their successful implementation to the finish while closely carrying out their monitoring and evaluation. Ms Micheni has the ability to



identify opportunities by looking at new angles, in the development in the environment of operation and the identification of avenues to enhance efficiency while optimizing resource use.

> YASUE MOCHIZUKIYasue Mochizuki (PhD) is professor of international organization at Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan. She served as programme associate at the United Nations University headquarters, Tokyo, and visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York. Her academic publications in Japanese include A Study on Legal Doctrines of Humanitarian Intervention (Kokusai Shoin, 2003), Transitional Justice: Seeking for Justice in the International Community (Horitsu Bunka Sha, 2012), and in English “United Nations and Responsibility to Protect (R2P)”, Korean Journal of International Law, Vol. 5, 2010 and “Human Security and Human Rights”, The Journal of Peace Studies, Vol.14, 2013, and “Roles and Functions of Transitional Justice Mechanisms in the Asia-Pacific Region in the Development of International Law”, Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, Vol.35, 2017. Prof. Mochizuki is a member on the Board of Directors of the Japan Chapter of the Asian Society of International Law and the Board of Directors of the Japan Association for United Nations Studies (JAUNS).se programmes aimed at community development for livelihood improvement.

> GLADYS MOKHAWAGladys Mokhawa holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Botswana. She has worked extensively on issues of Southern African Peace and Security.

> BENJAMIN MOKOENABenjamin Mokoena is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science (Mil.), Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University. He joined the Department of Defence (DoD), South African National Defence Force (SANDF), in 1996, and attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 2006. In 2006, he was appointed as a Military University Educator (MUE), in the Department of Political Science (Mil.), Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University. Between 2009 and 2012, Benjamin was the Head of the Department of Political Science (Mil.), and between 2012 and 2016, he was the Chair of the School for Security and Africa Studies. Benjamin holds a Master’s degree in Military Science, MMil (Stell.). He is currently reading for a PhD in Political Science at the University of the Free State.

> SANDILE MOLOISandile Moloi is a Masters candidate at the University of Johannesburg. He has research interests in subjects related to the African Union, political Islam, and peace and security in Africa.

> YONG-IL MOONYong-il Moon is a Research Professor at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies of Kyungnam University in the Republic of Korea. He studies global norm diffusion, international and comparative constitutional law, international governmental and non-governmental organizations, judicialization of politics at both domestic and global levels, and role of civil society in the rule of law promotion. His recent research developed from his dissertation examines how domestic support structure conditions global diffusion of judicial independence and autonomy in transitional democracies. He is also working on how the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) promotes and is promoted by domestic implementation and legislation of Disability Discrimination Acts in Asia. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in International Relations from Seoul National University, and his PhD in Political Science from the George Washington University.

> PRINCE MOTAUNG Prince Gontse Motaung is a graduate of the North-West University, where he received his Bachelor of Social Science in Political Science and International Relations in 2016, and also received his Honours of Social Science in International Relations/Political Studies with distinction in 2017 at the same institution. After graduation, Prince continued with his Master’s degree in International Relations with the North-West University and is also currently temporarily employed as a research assistant and tutor by the in the institution (Department of Politics and International Relations), where he assists with administrative work, honours student mentoring and teaching duties. He has also served as both the President and institutional President of the institution in the year 2016 as the member of the North-West University Council and Institutional Senate, among other departments within the institution. A book chapter is his honours degree thesis titled ‘Engendering a new dynamism to peacekeeping through resource exchange? A comparative study of AMISOM and UNAMID’ under Professor Ojakurotu, which has been approved and awaiting publication. Another book chapter, ‘Marketization and Decolonization of Academic Disciplines in Higher Education of South Africa’ under Professor Mekoa, is already published. He has currently submitted co-published a book chapter through his Supervisor Dr Norman Sempijja. His Master’s thesis topic is ‘Resource dependence driving Peacekeeping Collaboration? Case of United Nations Stabilization mission in DR Congo and Force Intervention Brigade’.

> JUDYANNET MUCHIRIJudyannet Muchiri is a PhD Candidate at the Memorial University, specializing in youth and gender in the context of international development. To demonstrate the primacy of structural factors in participatory development, her research explores how safe spaces affect young women’s civic participation in Kenya. Ms Muchiri has extensive experience working as a community development activist, communications specialist and researcher with non-profits in Africa. Her research is supported by the School of Graduate studies at Memorial University and The Developing Conformity Project at Memorial.

> EMMANUELLE LENA MUKENDIEmmanuelle Lena Mukendi is a graduate from the Wits School of Governance (2018 Master of Management in Security, MM-S), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is civil society member of the Police reform committee in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 2008. She has worked with all stakeholders, national and international, in the Police reform process. She is currently working for her family business as Assistant to the CEO in the DRC. Independent researcher and soon-to-be PhD student (initial PhD proposal already developed and accepted), she has also been observing and analysing the Congolese political scene since the transition-to-democracy period. Her areas of interest are: Judiciary Law, Security Sector Governance, and international political affairs.

> TIM MURITHITim Murithi is Head of the Peacebuilding Interventions Programme at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town, and Extraordinary Professor of African Studies, at the Centre for African and Gender Studies, University of the Free State, in South Africa. He has over 25 years of experience in the fields of peace, security, international justice, governance and development. He is a Research Associate, Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa, University of Cape Town, and Senior Associate, Centre for Mediation, University of Pretoria. Previously, he was 2016 Claude Ake Visiting Professor at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) and Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University; he has also served as a Senior Research Fellow, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK; Head of the Peace and Security Council Report Programme, Institute for Security Studies, Addis



Ababa, Ethiopia; Senior Researcher, Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town; Programme Officer, United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Geneva; Lecturer, Department for Political Studies, University of Cape Town. He is on the international advisory boards of: Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, African Journal of Conflict Resolution (ACCORD), African Peace and Conflict Journal (UPEACE), Journal of African Union Studies, and Peacebuilding. He has written over 100 journal articles, book chapters and policy papers, and is author of 11 books. He is general editor of the Routledge/Europa Series on Perspectives in Transitional Justice.

> RONALD NARERonald Nare is a Zimbabwean SSG expert with nearly 10 years of experience in SSG programming in fragile contexts. He worked as a Researcher in a DCAF-commissioned study on SSG in Southern Africa where his major responsibility was to establish and document the state of SSG in all Southern African states. He has published a paper on ‘policing ungoverned spaces in Zimbabwe’ and is currently authoring a journal article on ‘the national ownership of SSR as a panacea to transformation of the conflict in Lesotho’. Ronald is a member of the Southern African Defence and Security Managament Network and currently acts as a SADSEM Coordinator for a newly established project entitled ‘Curriculum Development on SSG in Southern Africa’. He holds a Master of Science in International Affairs degree (Midlands State University) and is in the process of preparing to defend his short PhD proposal at the Wits School of Governance. He also holds a Certificate of Competence on SSG amongst other related qualifications.

> GRACE NDIRANGU Grace Ndirangu works with a humanitarian agency in Nairobi, Kenya working with urban refugees. Grace has over nine years' experience in development and humanitarian work. Over the years she has gained experience in economic inclusion and safe space programming for adolescent girls and young women. Grace also possess experience as a trainer in peace building and conflict management from the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Grace is finalizing her MSc degree in Governance, Peace and Security from the African Nazarene University in Nairobi. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts and Social Sciences from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. Grace is a 2018 Missing Peace Initiative Scholar, a 2017 Next Generation Fellow at the Women in International Security (WIIS) and a 2016 Generation Change fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Grace has interests in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda and has co-authored articles on women, peace and security issues including the 2018 USIP special report on conflict related sexual violence.

> MICHELLE NEL Michelle Nel, BLC, LLB (Pret) and LLM, LLD (Unisa), is Vice Dean of Social Impact and Personnel and a senior lecturer in Criminal and Military law and the Law of Armed Conflict at the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University. She joined the Defence Legal Services Division in 1996 as a prosecutor and was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Mercantile and Public Law (Mil) of the Faculty of Military Science in 2002. She was admitted as advocate to the High Court in the Cape of Good Hope in 2005 and completed her Doctor of Laws in 2012. She also serves as part-time researcher in SIGLA’s maritime governance hub. Her areas of research include International Law, Military Law and Maritime Security. Her works have been published in South Africa and internationally.

> NAOMI NGINANaomi Ngina was born and raised in a town called Kitale in Kenya, where she had experiences with water and swimming from a very young age. She studied at the University of Nairobi to pursue Law and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2018. Her favourite unit was the Law of the Sea, in which she is currently intending to curve her niche. After attending the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference 2018, she has been in the process of beginning an initiative called Go Blue Forum that will deal with Blue Initiatives, Blue Awareness and Blue Conservation, pursuing a blue future and raise awareness on SDG6.

> NDEYAPO NICKANORNdeyapo Nickanor is a senior lecturer in the Department of Statistics and Population Studies at the University of Namibia. She holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town. She is an associate of the African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN), Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) and the country lead of the IDRC-funded Urban Food Systems Governance and Disease Prevention in Africa. Her work focusses on urban food security, food systems, urban poverty and livelihoods.

> GLORIA NOVOVICGloria Novovic is a PhD Candidate at the University of Guelph, enrolled in the collaborative program of Political Science and International Development. Her research project examines the way gender equality and civil society engagement principles of Agenda 2030 are translated to institutional and country-level policies of UN and donor agencies in Rwanda and Uganda. Her areas of specialization are public policy and feminist political theory in the broader area of inclusive development. Ms Novocic has experience of working for the World Food Programme and the NGO sector in Serbia. Her research is sponsored by the Ontario Trillium, IDRC, and Alastair Summerlee Awards.

> BERNARD NTAHIRAJADr Bernard Ntahiraja holds an LLB and LLM from the University of Burundi in Human Rights and Peaceful Resolution of Conflicts. Bernard Ntahiraja also holds an MA in International Law and the Settlement of disputes obtained in 2012 from the United Nations mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica). He recently obtained a PhD at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law and is currently a Lecturer at the Law Faculty of Burundi National University (Chargé de Cours) as well as an Advocate at the Court of Appeal of Bujumbura. Professor Ntahiraja has been a participant at UNODC workshops, and provided feedback and reviewed Education for Justice (E4J) University Modules. Additionally, he has helped make the modules regionally appropriate for Francophone Africa, with particular emphasis on Modules covering prosecution, sentencing, confiscation and other criminal justice responses.

> GEOFFREY NWAKAGeoffrey I. Nwaka (MA Birmingham, PhD Dalhousie) is Professor of History and formerly Dean of the College of Postgraduate Studies at Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria. He has several years of teaching and research experience in Nigerian universities, and was at various times guest researcher/visiting scholar at a number of universities and research institutes in Europe, Australia and North America. His research interests are in historical and contemporary urban issues, environmental protection, and African development. He has travelled and published widely, and served in government during 1990/91 as Special Adviser to the Governor of Imo State.


> MATHEW NYASHANUDr Mathew Nyashanu is a senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University. He contributes on both undergraduate and postgraduate studies. including Global Health and Development, Health Promotion, Research and Professional. Mathew also engages in research on different health issues. He supervises students on their dissertations for both undergraduate and postgraduate health courses. Mathew also collaborates with community groups working in health and development. Mathew has attended and presented at a number of national and international conferences.He has special interest in the health and well-being of the African diaspora. His research interest covers sexual health, health promotion, community engagement and social justice in health.

> LINDA NZIOKI MBATHALinda Nzioki Mbatha holds an LLB(Hons) from the University of Central Lancashire and is currently pursuing a Medical Degree at University of Nairobi. For the last 12 years Linda has worked in various capacities with Human Rights organisations with key contributions towards the developmental goals in Eastern Africa. These include IIDA Women’s Development Organisation, Somali Women’s Agenda, Centre for Land, Economy and Rights of Women, East African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women, Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation and Regional Centre on Small Arms. In Somalia she has worked with academic institutions and NGOs with strategic linkages made with various government sectors mostly in Kenya and Somalia. She is a member of the CSO Social Contract process, a process that seeks to improve governance in Somalia through law/policy making and practice. The process has resulted in the Somalia Human Rights Commission Law; The National Disability Agency Law, the SOB; the FGM Bill; The Health Bill; The NGO Bill and The Education Bill. She is currently providing expertise support in the development of a Mental Health Policy for Somalia. Her overall objective is to contribute to development by engaging in initiatives geared toward political transformation and the social mobilisation and economic advancement of peoples from the most vulnerable communities.

> LISA OTTOLisa Otto holds BA and BA Honours degrees from the University of Johannesburg, an MA from King's College London, and a PhD from the University of Johannesburg. Since completing her doctorate, Ms Otto has worked in academia in both the United Kingdom in South Africa, but previously also worked at South Africa's foremost think tanks and in political risk consultancy both in Johannesburg and London. She has specialised in African issues, particularly those related to conflict and security as well as foreign affairs and political risk. Her academic research interests have largely revolved around non-traditional threats to security, where she has developed specific expertise in Maritime Security.

> MANJUSHREE PALITManjushree Palit has a PhD in Human Development with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy. Dr Palit is a mental health professional with 13 years of experience in counselling people: individuals, couples and families. She has clinical, teaching, research, grant writing and administrative experience. She has also worked in diverse work settings: non-profit organizations in both India and United States, and academic institution in United States and India. Clinical experience working with varied clients in wide range of settings: Dr Palit worked in India as a counselor and social worker in two non-profit organizations [Populations Services International (PSI) and Indian Association for Promotion of Adoption & Child Welfare (IAPA)]. She has worked with children and adolescents from lower income families, and children and young adults with substance abuse both in Virginia & Houston (United States) and India. In United States, she worked as a therapist at

the family therapy clinic, non-profit organization, medical clinic and school settings. She had a wide range of clients of all ages from young children to older adults. In such settings, she worked with people from different social class, race, age, education, religious, cultural and sexual orientation with myriad concerns: relational, substance abuse and addictions, psychiatric and mental health issues, pain, medication and lifestyle management, intrapersonal concerns, treatment and rehabilitation, and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. She has conducted individual and group therapy sessions with immigrant and refugee families. Dr Palit has numerous national and international publications.

> HEUNG-SOON PARKHeung-Soon Park is a vice-president of the United Nations Association of ROK, and a professor emeritus and former dean of the Graduate School, SunMoon University. As a scholar and expert, Professor Park has been active in the education, research and policy developments on the United Nations, international organizations, multilateralism and Korean foreign policy. He has published several books and numerous articles in the related fields, including ‘East Asia and the Role of the UN’ (2018), ‘Multinational Approaches to the Korean Impasse’ (2016), ‘Future Development of the Korean Policy on the UN PKOs’ (2015), United Nations, Multilateral Diplomacy, and Korean Foreign Policy (book, 2015). Professor Park was a UN Intern (New York, Geneva), international fellow (State Department, Ralph Bunche Institute, and ACUNS), and has served as the delegation to the government and NGOs, including the UN and the UNESCO. He also took the chairs of various academic ad policy-making organizations in Korea, including the Korean Academic Council on the United Nations System (KACUNS), the UNESCO- Korean Commission, and the Korean Foundation, as well as a policy advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since July 2018, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). Professor Park is a founding and active member of the East Asian UN networks among China, Japan and Korea since 2000, such as the UN Seminar (scholars and researchers), the Presidents’ Forum of the UN Associations (UNAs), and the Youth Forum (college students).

> MAISIE PIGEONMaisie Pigeon is Project Manager for One Earth Future’s (OEF) Stable Seas program. She joined OEF in 2011 as part of its Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) program. During her tenure with OBP, she led the program's State of Maritime Piracy report series from 2016 to 2018 and conducted research and analyses on other maritime security issues. Prior to joining OEF, Maisie lived in Washington, D.C., where she developed and implemented several social advocacy campaigns and strategic communications plans for NGOs focused on global health and international development. She has her MA in International Studies from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and she received her BA from James Madison University, where she studied political science, anthropology, and African studies.

> JACQUI POLTERAJacqui Poltera is a senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg. She holds a PhD in Philosophy focused on ethical theory from Macquarie University, Sydney. She was awarded a Masters and Honours from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal and a Bachelor of Arts from Rhodes University. On completing her PhD, she held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy at Western Sydney University. Prior to her appointment at WSG, she worked as a senior consultant in Melbourne, Australia. Her consulting work focused on evaluating and planning public health and social services systems. She also has experience working in government, project managing and implementing large scale national policies and reform at the provincial level. During this period Poltera held affiliate positions



with the University of Adelaide, School of Population Health and the University of Tasmania. Poltera’s doctorate and associated research focused on theories of agency and identity. Specifically, the ways in which contingencies such as violence, trauma and/or oppression threaten agency. She has published her work in national and international peer-reviewed journals and lectured at universities in Australia and South Africa on topics such as business and professional ethics, public health, media ethics and the law, epistemology, critical thinking and logic.

> RICHARD PONZIORichard Ponzio is Director of Just Security 2020 at The Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. He is formerly Head of the Global Governance Program at The Hague Institute for Global Justice, where he directed the Albright-Gambari Commission with the Stimson Center. Earlier, Dr Ponzio served as Senior Adviser in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he conceptualized and coordinated Secretary Hillary Clinton’s and later John Kerry’s New Silk Road initiative. He has served in senior peacebuilding roles with the United Nations in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, New York, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands. Dr Ponzio has published widely, including Democratic Peacebuilding: Aiding Afghanistan and other Fragile States (OUP, 2011) and Human Development and Global Institutions: Evolution, Impact, Reform with Dr Arunabha Ghosh (Routledge, 2016). Most recently, he co-edited the volume Just Security in an Undergoverned World (OUP, 2018).

> JULIA PUASCHUNDERJulia Margarete Puaschunder studied Philosophy/Psychology (MPhil, University of Vienna, 2003, highest entry exam), Business (MBA, Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2007), Public Administration (MPA, Maxwell School, 2008, full tuition waiver Fulbright Scholar with placements in Washington D.C. and New York City), Social and Economic Sciences (Doctor, Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2006, merit-based ad personam position, Dean’s list), Natural Sciences (Doctor, University of Vienna, 2010, summa cum laude), Science (Master, The New School), Law and Economics (pending). From 2019, she pursues a Habilitation (Venia docendi, Professorship) in Germany, Europe. After having captured social responsibility in corporate and financial markets in Europe and North America with attention to Financial Social Responsibility and Socially Responsible Investment; she pursued the idea of Eternal Equity — responding to Western world intergenerational equity constraints in the domains of environmental sustainability, over-indebtedness and demographic aging with focus on law and mind sciences. Currently, she dedicates interest to Humanness, Automated Control and Artificial Intelligence Ethics in the digital age. Ms Puaschunder is included in the ‘2018 Marquis Who’s Who in America and in the World’ among the top 3% professionals around the globe. She was awarded the 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Apart from academic appointments in Austria, she was a scholar at The Australian National University, Columbia University in the City of New York, George Washington University, Harvard University, Haskayne School of Business, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Princeton University, and The Open Society Institute & Soros Foundation New York.

> ELLEN RAVNDALEllen Jenny Ravndal is a Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, the Australian National University. From 2015 to 2017, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Ellen holds a PhD from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the history of international organisations and how their representatives gain autonomy.

> SANJEEV SAHNISanjeev P. Sahni is the Professor and Principal Director of the Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences (JIBS) at O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana. He is also the Director for “Center for Innovative Leadership and Change”, “Center for Victimology and Psychological Studies”, and “Center for Community Mental Health”, Member of the Governing Body and Advisor to the Vice Chancellor at O. P. Jindal Global University. He holds a PhD in Organizational Behaviour and a Post Graduate degree in Psychology with specialization in Industrial Psychology from Punjab University, Chandigarh. Dr Sahni is Certified Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats Trainer and Internationally Certified (Master Level) Trainer: Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner and possesses about 20 years of experience as a trainer. He has trained school teachers, government officials of different cadres, industry professionals etc. Dr Sahni was conferred the award of “Edupreneur of the Year 2015” by the ASSOCHAM and Education Post. He was awarded the Medal of Honor presented by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts the most prominent national academic institution in Serbia. He has published several research articles, books and book chapters; nationally and internationally in area of organizational behavior, cognitive neuropsychology, behavioral sciences and educational psychology. He is serving as a reviewer for several International Journals and is member of various professional associations such as Academic Council on the United Nations Systems (ACUNS) and International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP).

> MPHO SANTHOMpho Precious Santho is a Master’s candidate in the department of Politics and International Relations in the North-West University. She has written one book chapter which is yet to be published. Her areas of interests are: international political economy, foreign policy, diplomacy and security studies. Her Master’s research topic is: The Assessment of the Politics of Credit Rating Agencies on South Africa’s Economic Growth (2009-2017). Her Honours topic was on South Africa’s Blue Economy.

> SIMON SCHULZESimon Schulze was born in Lutherstadt Wittenberg in 1986, where he graduated high-school in 2006. After fulfilling his civil service, he went to Bielefeld to study Political Science at the local university from 2007 until 2011. His Bachelor thesis focused on the investigations of the International Criminal Court in Darfur. After completing his first degree, Simon Schulze went to Jena. At the Friedrich-Schiller University he attended the interdisciplinary program ‘Geschichte und Politik des 20. Jahrhunderts’ from 2011 until 2015. This nexus between the disciplines was mirrored in his Master’s thesis about the general connection between the human rights program at the UN and decolonization processes between 1945 and 1960. Afterwards, he was delighted to get the possibility to work at the Trier University as a research assistant for Prof. Dr Manuel Fröhlich. Since then, Mr Schulze works as a lecturer for undergraduate students and as a researcher to earn a doctor’s degree. The main topics in his seminars are human rights, humanitarianism, globalization and global governance, while also highlighting aspects of decolonization, gender and transitional justice. His dissertation project wants to identify the influence of diplomats from the newly independent countries on the International Bill of Human Rights.


> NORMAN SEMPIJJANorman Sempijja holds a PhD in International Politics from Kingston University, a Master’s degree in diplomatic studies from Keele university, and a BA Social sciences from Makerere University. He is currently a senior lecturer at North West University where he teaches Security studies and Political philosophy among others. His research interests are in international security with specific focus on inter-organisational collaboration in peacekeeping. He has also delved into counter-terrorism strategies of states especially in Africa.

> WESTEN SHILAHOWesten Shilaho holds a doctorate in politics from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a Mellon Scholar. He has served as a tutor and lecturer in politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a researcher with several civil society organisations in Johannesburg. His research focuses on conflict and stability, state formation and transitional justice, and party politics, electoral politics and identity politics in Africa.

> JAMES SHILUEJames Suah Shilue is the Executive Director for Platform for Dialogue and Peace (P4DP) as of June 2012. Prior to occupying this position, James served as Liberia Programme Coordinator for Interpeace and was responsible for the day-to-day management and overall direction of the programme. Mr Shilue has extensive experience over 15 years, in the management of complex operations and uses this experience to hone his skills in facilitation, partnership development and research. His focus areas include peace and resilience, Ebola and humanitarian disaster, peacebuilding and conflict prevention, and natural resource management, including land disputes and resolution. In addition to overseeing the overall programme of Interpeace in Liberia, he has collaborated and worked with various international projects, including the Geneva Graduate School Small Arms Survey, Bentley University research project, European Union, USIP and George Washington University Rule of Law projects, World Bank, George Washington IDRC Liberian Diaspora Research project, the Carter Centre Urban Justice project and the International Center for Migration Policy Development. With two Masters Degrees in Social and Community Studies (De Montfort University, UK) and an MA in Development Studies (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague), he has been working on Liberian and African affairs. He brings an acute knowledge of the political and social dynamics in Liberia, with wide networks internally, with the Liberian diaspora and with international peacebuilding organizations globally.

> LUCY SHULELucy Shule, PhD is a Lecturer at the Centre for Foreign Relations and currently the Director of Studies at the National Defence College, Tanzania. With an experience in defence and security for several years, she has initiated and managed programmes on gender equity and equality, peace and security as well as governance and democracy. Her research interests and the focus of her writings are in international relations, security, conflict resolution, diplomacy and foreign policy.

> CHANGROK SOHDr. Changrok Soh is currently a professor of the Graduate School of International Studies and the Director of Human Rights Center in Korea University. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of UN Human Rights Council and the President of Human Asia (a Human Rights NGO). Dr. Soh has thrived to reflect his research on human rights into the practice through his role as an independent UN and NGO expert. After graduating from the Department of International Relations at Seoul National University, he received his Ph.D. as well as MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

> HUSSEIN SOLOMON Hussein Solomon is currently a Research Fellow at the Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa at the University of Stellenbosch. He is also a Senior Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Governance at the University of the Free State and Visiting Professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy in Japan. His latest book is co-authored with Stephen Emerson and entitled African Security in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities (Manchester University Press, 2018).

> OTTO SPIJKERSOtto Spijkers is Lecturer of Public International Law at Utrecht University, Senior Research Associate with the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS), and researcher with the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law (UCWOSL). He is a member of the Committee on the Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Development of the International Law Association, and guest lecturer for Amnesty International The Hague. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta, the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University, Xiamen University’s China International Water Law Programme (China), the China Institute for Boundary and Ocean Studies of Wuhan University (China), the Law School of the East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) in Shanghai (China), the Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy), and the Association pour la promotion des droits de l'homme en Afrique centrale (APDHAC) of the Université Catholique d’Afrique Centrale (Yaoundé, Cameroon). He obtained his PhD at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at the University of Leiden. His doctoral dissertation, entitled The United Nations, the Evolution of Global Values and International Law, was published with Intersentia in 2011. Alongside several internship and work experiences, he is editor and author of the Invisible College Blog, the blog of the School of Human Rights Research.

> UELI STAEGERUeli Staeger is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva. His thesis, entitled ‘Financing and reforming the African Union’, compares the role of the AU Commission vis-à-vis different types of funders and their agendas for the AU. His works have been published in the Journal of Common Market Studies, The International Spectator and in a number of edited collections. In addition to academic work, Mr Staeger has worked as an international development consultant.

> EUNICE STUHLHOFEREunice Wangui Stuhlhofer is a licensed psychotherapist working in Austria with clients from diverse cultures, ages and backgrounds. She is a certified child and youth therapist and certified family therapist. She works in private practice besides her employment with Caritas Vienna where she offers intercultural therapy to refugees and asylum seekers. Previously, she studied education and human resource management. She is a doctoral candidate at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna where she is investigating the impact of migration experiences of Kenyan women in Austria and their coping strategies. Her previous research has focused on culture and its influence on mental illness with an exploration of eating disorders.


> STEVEN THAGASteven Thaga is a member of the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) with a career spanning over 26 years. He is a graduate of the South African National War College and holds a BA and MPA (Political Science and Public Administration) from the University of Botswana, and an MA (International Security) from the US Naval Postgraduate School. He is currently a PhD student at the Stellenbosch University. His military career includes various appointments including Platoon Commander and Adjutant at the Ceremonial and Guard Unit, staff duties at the Defence Headquarters and on tours of duty at the Office of the President (as part of the National Security Strategy Review), and as Military Desk Officer at the Ministry of Defence, Justice and Security. Colonel Thaga is currently the Academic Coordinator at the Defence Command and Staff College and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Botswana. His research interests include national security and foreign policy, the role of the military in democratization, governance and leadership, civil military relations, and the blue economy.

> AFTON TITUSAfton Titus is a senior lecturer in the Commercial Law Department at Cape Town University, South Africa. She graduated from UCT with Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degrees. She thereafter completed her articles, and was admitted to the High Court as an attorney, notary and conveyancer. She practiced as a tax attorney for a further two years while completing her Master of Commerce degree in Taxation from UCT in 2010. She joined the Commercial Law Department in 2011. Afton’s research interest is in tax law, and she teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

> NATALIE TRÖLLER Natalie Tröller finished her Master’s Degree in political Sciences in 2013. She subsequently served as a fellow to the United Nations Institue for Training and Research (UNITAR) in New York City, funded by a Carlo-Schmid-Scholarship. Since 2015, she is Research Assistant at Trier University, working at the Chair of International Relations and Foreign Politics held by Prof. Dr Manuel Fröhlich. Her PhD thesis deals with norm establishment processes within and through the United Nations. Her research interests include international norm dynamics, the political role of Special Representatives of the Secretary-General of the UN, Germany Foreign Policy, and Germany in the United Nations.

> TSHEGOFATSO HAZEL TOMODITshegofatso Hazel Tomodi is a second-year masters student in International Relations at the North West University. She majored in Political Science in honors and undergraduate levels. Currently, she is a junior lecturer at North-West University. This appointment was done through the ‘Grow Our Own Timber’ bursary award. She specializes in gender politics, democracy, human rights, political philosophy, and political participation. She also has contributed to two edited books, one with Professor Ojakoruto of the North West University and one with Professor Peter at the University of Venda. She is an advocate for women and children's rights through her co-established NGO LOL (living out loud).

> AMSALU TSIGEAmsalu Tsige is a Community development activist, Africa advancement Advocate, Entrepreneur, and recently Senior Masters Candidate specializing in African intellectual history and cultural studies at the Center for African and Oriental Studies at Addis Ababa University. He also took courses and seminars of Theories and Issues of Development, and Global Justice at the University of Geneva. He is the founder and manager of Pan-African Roots Entertainment which advances Ethiopian and African cultural heritages, Pan-Africanism, creates awareness on Gender, Migration, HIV/AIDS,

Environmental Protection and Developmental Works since 2017. He has also been a musician for the last fifteen years, owning his digital audio-video recording studio since 2009. Since 2017, he is a Member of Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA), branch coordinator and organizer, and a student representative at the Addis Ababa University Center for African and Oriental Studies.

> YASUHIRO UEKICurrently a Professor in the Faculty of Global Studies, a Member of the Sophia Institute of International Relations and of the Institute for Human Security, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. Prior to that, he worked for the United Nations for nearly 30 years, mostly in the Department of Public Information and in the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General at UN Headquarters. In the field, he served as Electoral Supervisor in Namibia and as Electoral Operations Officer in South Africa, as Political Affairs Officer and Deputy Spokesman in East Timor, as Spokesman for the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Mission (UNMOVIC) in Iraq, and as Public Information Officer for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, among others. On leave from the United Nations, he also worked for the Political Section of the Japanese Mission to the United Nations for a couple of years. A selection of his publications: ‘The United Nations – Its Role and Functions’ (Nippon Hyoronsha, 2018, in Japanese); ‘Was America’s Attack on Syria Legal? An Asian Expert’s View’ in PassBlue.com, April 26, 2017; ‘Rethinking Security Council Reform’ in USJI Voice, United States-Japan Institute, Washington, D.C., January 2016; ‘The Role of the United Nations in Africa: Overcoming Sovereignty’ (chapter, Sophia University Press, 2013, in Japanese). He holds a PhD in International Relations from Columbia University.

> LAURENS VAN APELDOORNLaurens van Apeldoorn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Centre for Political Philosophy at Leiden University. His research is broadly focussed on the nature and prospects of the sovereign state. His recent historical research is on the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. His recent contemporary research concerns international taxation in relation to global justice. His current paper suggests that a comprehensive examination of appropriate future reforms of the international tax regime should primarily consider the contributions that can, by means of it, be made to filling the ‘financing gaps’ of lower-income countries addressing subsistence rights deprivations.

> HUGO VAN DER MERWEHugo van der Merwe is Director of Research, Knowledge and Learning at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. Since joining CSVR in 1997, he has initiated and managed numerous research, advocacy and intervention projects relating to transitional justice, reconciliation and peacebuilding in South Africa and the African continent. Dr van der Merwe is the Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press). His publications include four edited volumes: Advocating Transitional Justice in Africa: The Role of Civil Society (2018), Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice (2009), Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver? (2008), and Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice (1993). He received his doctorate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University (1999).



> ANTHONI VAN NIEUWKERKAnthoni van Nieuwkerk holds an MA in Political Science from the University of Johannesburg and a PhD in International Relations from Wits University, Johannesburg. He has been research-active from the early 1990s and has pursued an academic career in teaching, training and policy analysis from 2000. Anthoni is based at the Wits School of Governance (WSG) where he coordinates Security studies. In 2013, he received recognition by the National Research Foundation as a rated scholar, and held positions in recent years as Assistant Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management and WSG Academic Director. In 2015, the South African government appointed him to the South African Council on International Relations (SACOIR) and in 2018, to the Presidential High-level Review Panel into Intelligence. Anthoni has developed comprehensive skills as an institutional architect. He publishes widely on African foreign and security policy, has participated in several scenario development exercises, and has broad experience with advising African policymakers on foreign and national security policy processes and frameworks. He is a visiting lecturer and external examiner in South Africa and elsewhere on the continent, and serves as editorial board member of the accredited journals African Security, Administratio Publica and European Journal of International Studies.

> NOËLLE VAN DER WAAG-COWLINGNoëlle van der Waag-Cowling is a member of the South African Department of Defence and of the Faculty of Military Science at Stellenbosch University. She is the coordinator of the Cyber Project at the Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa and Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Conflict, Rule of Law and Society, Bournemouth University. She has served as assistant editor of the journal Scientia Militaria, published in various national and international scientific publications and been a participant in international military education projects. She served as Chair of the 14 International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Cyber Security 2019. Ms van der Waag-Cowling teaches fifth dimension warfare and low intensity conflict at the Department of Strategic Studies, Stellenbosch University.

> FRANCOIS VREŸFrancois Vreÿ is Emeritus Professor in Military Sciences, Stellenbosch University. He lectured in the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University for 22 years, and now serves as the Research Coordinator for the Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa (SIGLA), Stellenbosch University (SIGLA @ Stellenbosch). He is a C1 Rated Researcher of the National Research Foundation of South Africa and a former editor of the accredited academic journal Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies. His research fields include future warfare and Africa’s emerging maritime security setting and maritime security governance of Africa in particular. His current posting involves building international research partnerships for SIGLA @ Stellenbosch University on leadership, landward and maritime security governance, and cyber security.

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