Tim Murithi

Professor Tim Murithi is Head of the IJR Justice and Peacebuilding Programme and also Extraordinary Professor of African Studies, Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa. He was previously Claude Ake Visiting Professor, Nordic Africa Institute and Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is a Board Member and Senior Associate, Centre for Mediation, University of Pretoria; Senior Research Associate, Nordic Africa Institute; Research Fellow, African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town. He is a member of the Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa Technical Committee (www.tanaforum.org). He has over two decades of experience in the fields of peacebuilding, security, governance, international justice and development in Africa. He has held previous posts at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, the United Kingdom; Institute for Security Studies, in Addis Ababa; Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town; and United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Geneva, Switzerland. He has served as an Adviser and Consultant to a number of governments and inter-governmental organisations including the African Union, UNDP, UK DFID, Germany’s GiZ. He taught at the Department for International Relations, Keele University, England, where he also obtained his Ph.D in International Relations.

He is on the International Advisory Boards of: Journal of Peacebuilding and Development; Brazilian Journal of African Studies; African Journal of Conflict Resolution; Journal of African Union Studies; African Peace and Conflict Journal and the journal Peacebuilding. He has authored over 85 journal articles, book chapters and policy papers. He is the author and editor of 9 books, including as author: The Ethics of Peacebuilding (Edinburgh University Press, 2009); and The African Union: Pan-Africanism, Peacebuilding and Development (Ashgate, 2005); editor of Routledge Handbook of Africa’s International Relations (Routledge, 2014) and The Politics of Transitional Justice in the Great Lakes Region of Africa (Jacana, 2016); co-author of The African Union Peace and Security Architecture: A Handbook (FES, 2014); co-editor of The African Union Peace and Security Council: A Five Year Appraisal (ISS, 2012); The African Union and its Institutions (Jacana, 2008) and Zimbabwe in Transition: A View from Within (Jacana, 2011). He is the editor of Towards a Union Government of Africa: Challenges and Opportunities (ISS, 2008). He is General Editor of the Routledge/Europa Series on Perspectives in Transitional Justice.