Simbarashe is also a research associate at Stellenbosch University in the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. His research interests collectively contribute to an overarching theme of youth subjectivities and how these intersect in complex ways with various aspects of everyday life such as politics, livelihoods, and transitions. Simbarashe is also interested in questions around informality, religiosity, displacement, youth political expressions in spaces of protracted economic and political crisis.

Simbarashe was awarded the African Peacebuilding Network Research Fellowship (2021-2022) by the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC), the African Humanities Programme Fellowship, from the American Learned Societies, Carnegie Corporation, New York, USA. Simbarashe’s recent publications are in African Affairs, the International Journal of Transitional Justice, African Security Review, African Identities, Political Psychology and the Extractive Industries and Society among other journals.

Simbarashe also serves as an editorial board member of Anthropology Southern Africa and the journal of Religion and Development.

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He also serves as a commissioner with the high-level National Planning Commission (Presidency of the Republic of South Africa) where he chairs the Commission’s Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Task Team. Between 2012 and 2020 he was the Director of the Safety and Violence Initiative at the University of Cape Town. Prior to this he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies (2006-2012), and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution (2000-2005).

He is a National Research Foundation rated researcher and has undertaken research and published on crime and violence reduction, urban safety, policing and peace-building issues in Africa for more than 25 years. He has worked with numerous governments and various United Nations agencies on peace and security issues.

Dr. Lamb holds a Ph.D. in Criminology and a master’s degree in International and Comparative Politics from UCT.

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He has extensive experience working with a number of different international organisations such as the EU and NATO, and has among other things been a focal point in the EU Task Forces on DDR and SSR.

He has also worked with contexts such as Bosnia-Hercegovina, Lebanon, Mozambique, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan in his different capacities.

LtCol Abrahamsson has throughout his career worked on issues relating to analysis and planning, logistics, national defence planning, security and EOD and demining.

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Her Peace and Security expertise is anchored in Reintegration, Gender & Gender Based Violence as well as a Crisis, Mediation & Conflict Transformation Practitioner in varied local community, public and private sector contexts.

A Founder of the PEACE Together Initiative – she scales community activism in social impact and social justice through social innovation and youth leadership, Mentorship and Development that centers on Transition and Change management; Wellbeing Integration, resilience building and sustainability. Her interests in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Decolonization, Stigma & Discrimination have focused on acquisition of Cultural Competencies and Socio-Emotional Learning for peace enhancement.

Her passion is in thought leadership, coaching, mentoring and training that conceptualizes peace and security away from external structural references towards the development of peace socialization and empowerment through a culture of children and youth engagement.

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This has covered a range of thematic areas including: conflict transformation and peacebuilding; conflict sensitivity and Do No Harm (DNH) approaches; refugee, IDP and former combatant return and reintegration; gender, peace and security; civil society strengthening; peace education; armed gang mediation; community security, armed violence reduction, and reconciliation in fragile states.

Dr Bowd has advised governments, UN agencies, ADB, INGO’s and NGO’s, and retains a number of advisory and academic positions. In addition, he has published numerous articles, policy briefs and books across these thematic areas and has presented at international conferences.

He is currently a founding director with Betula Innovations, a consultancy company specialising in the provision of bespoke, agile solutions to complex problems grounded in a robust evidence base.

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She has an international reputation in the field of socio-economic reintegration of adults and children formally associated with armed groups, veterans, youth employment, gender, prevention of violent extremism and community-based reintegration and security programming. Seven years of field and headquarter experience in the ILO Programme on Crisis Response and Reconstruction has provided her with expertise on employment issues and economic reintegration. She brings solid expertise in policy, strategy and programme design (including TOCs), evaluations and applied research in DDR, CVR Release and Reintegration of CAFAAG and related fields.

Her record as a researcher and writer might is illustrated in her long publications list, and Irma is known for her ability to translate research findings in the actionable recommendations and programming.

Further, Irma has extensive experience in training, facilitation and design of tailor-made training courses and materials. She worked in most conflict affected countries around the world, and is the managing director of the international consultancy firm Transition International.

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He has over 18 years’ experience in the fields of socio-economic reintegration of ex-combatants, transitional justice, security sector reform and human rights. He has worked on both long and term assignments in countries such as South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He also serves as a facilitator for institutions including the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Ghana.

Additionally, since 2010, Ibrahim has been serving as a Result Oriented Monitoring (ROM) consultant for European Union (EU) funded projects and programmes. He has monitored and evaluated EU funded projects and programmes in more than 30 countries in Africa.

Ibrahim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History; and a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from University of Sierra Leone; a Master’s degree in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam; and a Doctorate in Economics, from the Leipzig Graduate School of Management in Germany.

His most recent publications include an edited a volume published in 2022 by Routledge titled “Youth-Led Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Africa”; “When children become soldiers, can sport help them to find a way back?” published in 2022 by the Association of Commonwealth Universities; “Corruption, Underdevelopment and the Complicity of the Masses in Africa.” co-published with Temitope Oriola and Henry Mbawa, and published in 2022 by the Brazilian Journal of African Studies, Porto Alegre, v.7, n.13: pg. 81-104. In April 2023, Routledge will publish his edited volume titled “Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Africa”.

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