Dr. Tim Murithi
Between 2007 and 2008, Dr. Murithi was a Senior Researcher with the Direct Conflict Prevention Programme with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town, in South Africa. From 1999 to 2005 he worked as a Programme Officer in the Programme in Peacemaking and Preventive Diplomacy at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in Geneva, Switzerland. From 1995 to 1999 he taught International Relations at the University of Keele.
He has served as a consultant to the African Union (AU) (2007-2008), the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) (1999 – 2000 and 2008), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sierra Leone (2003), and the UN affiliated University for Peace (UPEACE) (2002), among other organizations. He serves on the board of the International Editorial Board of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development and the International Advisory Council of the TODA Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research.
Dr. Murithi is the author of over 60 journal articles, book chapters and reports on peace and security issues, including Ethics of Peacebuilding, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), pp.182. ISBN 978-0-748624478 andThe African Union: Pan-Africanism, Peacebuilding and Development, (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishers, 2005), pp.184. ISBN 978-0-754639-53-4.
Research interests of Dr. Murithi include African Union Peace and Security Architecture, Peacekeeping and Post-conflict reconstruction in Africa, Governance and Democratisation in Africa, United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, Civil society, Peace and Development, Indigenous Approaches to Peacebuilding in Africa.
He has served as a consultant to the African Union (AU) (2007-2008), the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) (1999 – 2000 and 2008), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sierra Leone (2003), and the UN affiliated University for Peace (UPEACE) (2002), among other organizations. He serves on the board of the International Editorial Board of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development and the International Advisory Council of the TODA Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research.
Dr. Murithi is the author of over 60 journal articles, book chapters and reports on peace and security issues, including Ethics of Peacebuilding, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), pp.182. ISBN 978-0-748624478 andThe African Union: Pan-Africanism, Peacebuilding and Development, (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishers, 2005), pp.184. ISBN 978-0-754639-53-4.
Research interests of Dr. Murithi include African Union Peace and Security Architecture, Peacekeeping and Post-conflict reconstruction in Africa, Governance and Democratisation in Africa, United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, Civil society, Peace and Development, Indigenous Approaches to Peacebuilding in Africa.
