Founding Director
Abu Bakarr Bah
Presidential Research Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University and Founding Editor of African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review (ACPR)
Founding Director
Senior Staff
Ibrahim Bangura
Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone
Assistant Director for Policy
Sebastian Paalo
Lecturer, Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Assistant Director for Research
David Hurlbut
Publications Coordinator
Advisory Board
Wale Adebanwi
Director of the Center for Africana Studies & Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Advisory Board
Sirojuddin Arif
Head of the MA in Political Science Program, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia
Advisory Board
Matthias Basedau
Director of GIGA Institute for African Affairs (IAA), German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
Advisory Board
Nic Cheeseman
Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
Advisory Board
James Earl Davis
Bernard C. Watson Chair in Urban Education & Professor of Higher Education, Department of Policy, Organizational and Leadership Studies, Temple University
Advisory Board
Ismael Montana
Associate Professor, Department of History, Northern Illinois University and President of the West African Research Association
Advisory Board
Cyril Obi
Program Director of the African Peacebuilding Network program and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program at the Social Science Research Council (New York)
Advisory Board
Ismail Rashid
Professor of History & on the Marion Musser Lloyd '32 Chair of History and International Relations, Vassar College
Advisory Board
Ousmane Sène
Director of West African Research Center (WARC) and Associate Professor of Literature in the Department of English, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal
Advisory Board
Kurt Thurmaier
Distinguished Engagement Professor, Department of Public Administration, Northern Illinois University
Advisory Board
Philips J. Vermonte
Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia
Advisory Board
Teresa Wasonga
Presidential Engagement Professor, Department of Leadership, Ed. Psychology & Foundations, Northern Illinois University
Advisory Board
Andreas de GUTTRY
Full professor of Public International Law, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
Advisory Board
Leonardo A. Villalón
Professor of African Politics at The University of Florida and Coordinator of the Sahel Research Group
Advisory Board
Virginia Blaser
Senior U.S. Diplomat (ret)
Advisory Board
Bob Brinkmann
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Northern Illinois University
Advisory Board
Bill Zartman
Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University
Advisory Board
Nukhet A. Sandal
Associate Dean and Professor of Political Science, Ohio University
Advisory Board