The African Union: Autocracy, Diplomacy and Peacebuilding in Africa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781788311502)

Tim Murithi is professor extraordinary of African studies at the Centre for African Studies, University of Free State, South Africa; and head of justice and reconciliation in the Africa Programme at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Cape Town. He was previously Claude Ake visiting professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University and Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden. He has over 23 years of experience in peace, security, governance, transitional justice, and development in Africa, and has held posts at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, United Kingdom; the Institute for Security Studies, Addis Ababa; the Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town; and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Geneva, Switzerland. He has served as an adviser/consultant to the African Union (AU), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID), and German GiZ. He is on the international advisory boards of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, the African Journal of Conflict Resolution, and African Peace and Conflict Journal, and the journal Peacebuilding. He has authored over 85 journal articles, book chapters, and policy papers, and is author and editor of nine books, including author of The African Union: Pan-Africanism, Peacebuilding, and Development (2005) and The Ethics of Peacebuilding (2009); co-editor of Zimbabwe in Transition: A View from Within (2011) and The Politics of Transitional Justice in the Great Lakes Region of Africa (2016); and editor of The Routledge Handbook of Africa's International Relations (2014).

Tony Karbo is executive director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in Cape Town, South Africa. Previously, Dr Karbo served as director of the Karamoja Cluster Project (KCP) and managing editor of the Africa Peace and Conflict Journal at the University for Peace, Africa Programme. As part of its mandate in the Africa Programme of the UN Mandated University for Peace, Dr Karbo taught in universities across the Great Lakes region, the Horn of Africa, and in Eastern, Southern, and Western Africa. He is a former senior lecturer at the Institute of Peace, Leadership, and Governance (IPLG) at Africa University in Zimbabwe. Dr Karbo has worked extensively in Africa with numerous organisations working in conflict zones, facilitating training in conflict resolution and peacebuilding, and in monitoring and evaluating election processes and programmes. Dr Karbo served as the Southern and Eastern Africa representative for the Institute of Multi-Track Diplomacy (IMTD), a peacebuilding organisation based in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development and an associate director and trainer of the South-North Center for Peacebuilding and Development. Dr Karbo holds a master's degree and doctorate from the School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, Virginia.