Prof MME Schoeman Professor and Head of Department BA (Hons), MA (RAU), PhD (Univ of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Tel: +27 12 420 2464
Email: maxi.schoeman@up.ac.za
Research interests: African security, peacekeeping operations and South African foreign policy
Prof A du Plessis Professor
BA (Hons), MA, DPhil (Pretoria)
Tel: +27 12 420 2424
E-mail: anton.duplessis@up.ac.za
Research interests: The nexus between foreign policy, diplomacy and defence with specific reference to South Africa
Prof KN Miti Professor
B Phil (Rome), MA, (UDSM), PhD (Toronto)
Tel: +27 12 420 4911
E-mail: katabaro.miti@up.ac.za
Research interests:Health policy generally and HIV/AIDs
in particular, with special focus on sub-Saharan Africa
Prof SE Africa Associate Professor
BA (Hons), (University of Natal), MA (Unisa), PhD (Wits)
Tel: +27 12 420 2464
E-mail: sandy.africa@up.ac.za
Research interests: Post-conflict reconstitution of security sector systems, particularly in Africa
Prof L Fioramonti Associate Professor
BA (Rome, IT) MSc, PhD (Siena, IT)
Research interests: European studies and comparative regionalism, and the role of civil society in democratisation and democratic deepening
Dr M Qobo Senior Lecturer
BA (UCT), MA (Stellenbosch), PhD (Warwick, UK)
Tel: +27 12 420 6339
E-mail: mzukisi.qobo@up.ac.za
Research interests: Global governance, leadership, norms; emerging powers, the BRICS, and Africa's economic resurgence; the political economy of mining in SA
Dr YK Spies Senior Lecturer and Programme Manager, Master of Diplomatic Studies
BA (Hons) (NMMU), MA (Unisa), DPhil (Pret)
Tel: +27 12 420 2688
E-mail: yolanda.spies@up.ac.za
Research interests: South African and broader African foreign policy analysis, conflict resolution in Africa, R2P, reform of the UN Security Council, diplomatic theory and practice, and changing global power relations
Research interests:South Africa's foreign policy, politics and governance
Dr FG Wolmarans Lecturer
BA (Hons), MA (Pretoria), DLitt et Phil (UJ)
Tel: +27 12 420 2689
E-mail: gerhard.wolmarans@up.ac.za
Research interests:The broad field of Political Theory. Current research is centered on democratic theory, with specific focus on the hermeneutics of CS Lewis and its illumination of deliberative democracy
Ms R du Toit Departmental Secretary
Tel: +27 12 420 2464
E-mail: rina.dutoit@up.ac.za
Ms WA Martin Administrative Assistant: Institute for
Strategic and Political Affairs
Tel: +27 12 420 2034
Email: wilma.martin@up.ac.za
Contract Full-time Staff
Prof L Nathan
Extraordinary Professor and Director, Centre for Mediation in Africa
BBusSci/LLB (UCT), MPhil (Bradford), PhD (UCT)
Tel: +27 76 524 161
E-mail: laurie.nathan@up.ac.za
Research interests: Mediation, civil wars, security sector reform and regional security
Ms R Pretorius Lecturer
BA (Hons), MA (Pretoria)
Tel: +27 12 420 2690
E-mail: rentia.pretorius@up.ac.za
Dr H Melber Extraordinary Professor
MA (Freie Universität Berlin), PhD (Bremen), Habilitation in Sociology/venia legendi (right to teach) in Development Studies (Bremen)
Tel: +46 18 410 1001
E-mail: henning.melber@dhf.uu.se
Research interests: African politics, Southern Africa (particularly Namibia); colonial history, liberation movements, post-colonial developments; global governance and the UN; Dag Hammarskjöld as second UN Secretary-General
Dr Tim Murithi Research Associate
MA (University of Kent, UK), PhD (Keele University, UK)
Tel: +27 21 763 7128
Email: tmurithi@ijr.org.za, tkmurithi@hotmail.com
Research interests: AU peace and security architecture; UN peacebuilding and R2P; transitional and gender justice in Africa; International Criminal Court; comparative politics of Kenya, South Sudan and Zimbabwe; indigenous approaches to peace in Africa.
Ambassador JF Mutton
Research Associate
Licence in Law (Catholic University Louvain), LLM (Free University Brussels)
Tel: +27 12 420 4340
E-mail: jan.mutton@up.ac.za
Research interests: Peace processes in central Africa and the Great Lakes region, climate change and politics
Dr C Wielenga Post-doctoral Fellow
BA (Hons), MA, PhD (UKZN)
Tel: +27 12 420 4486
E-mail: cori.wielenga@up.ac.za
Research interests: Transitional justice, reconciliation and post-conflict reconstruction in Burundi, Rwanda and South Africa
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