NIIA don bags US think tank job

by Segun Olugbile

Nigerian researcher and scholar, Dr. Cyril Obi, has been appointed the programme director of the Africa Peace-Building Network of the Social Science Research Council, a United States-based think tank based in Brooklyn, New York.


Dr. Cyril Obi

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Obi was until recently a Senior Researcher and leader of the Research Cluster on Conflict, Displacement and Transformation at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden.

A resourceful academic, while at NAI, Obi also coordinated a research programme on 'Post Conflict Transition: The State and Civil Society in Africa,' which involved managing Nordic and African research networks on aspects of the transition from conflict to post-conflict democratisation, justice, peace and development on the continent.

He also mentored many African researchers hosted through the Institute's Guest Researcher's Scholarship Programme.

Prior to that, Obi was a Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs where he is an associate research professor.

In 2004, he was the second recipient of the Claude Ake Visiting Chair at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at the University of Uppsala. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Lagos.

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