Leadership and Society

LEADERSHIP AND SOCIETY

A T R A I N I N G C O U R S E

African Leadership Centre in partnership with Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA)

17-27 October 2013 Intercontinental Hotel | Lusaka, Zambia AFRICAN LEADERSHIP CENTREIN PARTNERSHIP WITH OPEN SOCIETY INITIATIVE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (OSISA)

DAY 1 Thursday 17 October 2013 Arrival of course participants; completion of background information for the training

DAY 2 Friday 18 October 2013

LEARNING OBJECTIVES TIME SUBJECT FACILITATOR At the end of the course participants will…

08.30 09.00 Registration of participants

09.00 09.30 Welcome Remarks African Leadership Centre & Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA)

09.30 10.30 Introduction of participants & Adewale Ajadi Outline background and expectations of participants. Presentation of the Course Michael Owiso Become familiar with the course structure and overall learning objectives. Dr. 'Funmi Olonisakin Discuss programme for the course. Allocate participants to seminar groups Explain faculty roles Select participants for some coordination roles

10.30 11.00 Coee break

11.00 12.45 UNIT 1: Dr. 'Funmi Olonisakin Discuss ways of conceptualizing leadership across disciplines Conceptualizing leadership and key Identify the central components of leadership leadership themes Discuss a conceptual framework around which to organize understanding of LESSON 1: leadership Ways of conceptualizing leadership and Describe key features of leadership as process components of leadership

12.45 14.00 Lunch break

14.00 16.00 LESSON 2: Dr. 'Funmi Olonisakin Clarify the nature of leadership distinguish between perspectives Leadership in relation to other concepts Mr. Adewale Ajadi Distinguish leadership from other concepts e.g. coercion; management Discuss the relationship between leadership and power Dierentiate between authority and leadership

16:00 16.30 Wrap up followed by Tea

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DAY 3 Saturday, 19 October 2013

LEARNING OBJECTIVES TIME SUBJECT FACILITATOR At the end of the course participants will…

08:00-09:00 Seminar/Peer Groups Session 1 Group A: Reect on previous day's lessons Dr. Godwin Murunga Discuss key learning points from those lessons & Mr Michael Owiso

Group B: Dr. Abiodun Alao Dr. Eka Ikpe

09.00 09:30 Review of day 2 Mr. Adewale Ajadi Discuss key issues emerging from seminar group discussions presentations by group coordinator and Faculty responsible.

09.30 10.30 LESSON 3: Dr. 'Funmi Olonisakin Identify the context in which leadership takes place. The place of CONTEXT in leadership Discuss the role of common purpose and ethics in setting leadership context. Describe various ways in which common goals shape leadership context.

10.30 11.00 Coee break

11.00 12.45 LESSON 4: Dr. 'Funmi Olonisakin Analyze factors in leader emergence and succession; and the role of change in Identifying key leadership themes and the leadership process competencies Discuss the conditions for eectiveness in leadership Discuss the factors in leader eectiveness across cultures

12.45 14.00 Lunch break

14.00 16.00 LESSON 4 contd. Dr 'Funmi Olonisakin Analyze the role of competency in the leadership process Ms. Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli Interrogate the relevance of emotional Intelligence for eective leadership UNIT 3: Lesson 10 Identify the role of vision in leadership Emotional Intelligence and leadership development Discuss how visions are formed

UNIT 5: Lesson 15 The place of visioning in Leadership

16:00 16:30 Wrap up followed by Tea

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DAY 4 Sunday, 20 October 2013

LEARNING OBJECTIVES TIME SUBJECT FACILITATOR At the end of the course participants will…

08:00-09:00 Seminar/Peer Groups Session 2 Group A: Reect on previous day's lessons Dr. Godwin Murunga Discuss key learning points from those lessons & Mr Michael Owiso

Group B: Dr. Abiodun Alao Dr. Eka Ikpe

09.00 09:30 Review of day 3 Mr. Michael Owiso Discuss key issues emerging from seminar group discussions presentations by group coordinator and Faculty responsible.

09.30 10.45 UNIT 2: Dr. 'Funmi Olonisakin Identify the context in which leadership takes place. Leadership as process and application 8 Discuss the role of common purpose and ethics in setting leadership context. Describe various ways in which common goals shape leadership context.

10.30 11.00 Coee break

12.45 14.00 Lunch break

UNIT 5: Lesson 15 The place of visioning in Leadership

16:00 16:30 Wrap up followed by Tea

NOTE: Faculty meeting at close of day; Peer/ Seminar Groups meet to discuss Visioning assignment; Mentors available to discuss individual Visioning assignment

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to African societies

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DAY 5 Monday, 21 October 2013

LEARNING OBJECTIVES TIME SUBJECT FACILITATOR At the end of the course participants will…

08:00-09:00 Seminar/Peer Groups Session 3 Group A: Reect on previous day's lessons Dr. Godwin Murunga Discuss key learning points from those lessons & Mr Michael Owiso

Group B: Dr. Abiodun Alao Dr. Eka Ikpe

09.00 09:30 Review of day 3 Mr. Michael Owiso Discuss key issues emerging from seminar group discussions presentations by group coordinator and Faculty responsible.

09.30 10.30 LESSON 7: Dr. Godwin Murunga Identify key assumptions in society that dene leadership as gendered The place of gender in leadership Dr 'Funmi Olonisakin Illustrate how leadership qualities are assigned to dierent genders eectiveness Discuss how this assignment of leadership qualities facilitates or inhibits Debate: Does gender matter in leadership? leadership eectiveness. [Organized according to Peer/Seminar Group]

10.30 11.00 Coee break

11.00 12:30 LESSON 7 Contd.

12.30 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 15.00 LESSON 8: Mr. Michael Owiso Describe non-violent techniques for transforming conicts. The Leader's role in conict resolution Identify tools for sustaining strong groups Describe approaches to strengthening leaders' capacity for handling conict and dicult situations.

15.30 16:00 Tea break

16:00 17:00 LESSON 8 contd.

17:00 17:30 Wrap up

Faculty meeting at close of day; Peer Groups meet to discuss Visioning assignment; Mentors available to discuss individual Visioning assignment

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DAY 6 Tuesday, 22 October 2013

LEARNING OBJECTIVES TIME SUBJECT FACILITATOR At the end of the course participants will…

08:00-09:00 Seminar/Peer Groups Session 4 Group A: Reect on previous day's lessons Dr. Godwin Murunga Discuss key learning points from those lessons & Mr Michael Owiso

Group B: Dr. Abiodun Alao Dr. Mshai Mwangola

09.00 09:30 Review of day 5 Mr. Michael Owiso Discuss key issues emerging from seminar group discussions presentations by group coordinator and Faculty responsible.

09.30 10.30 UNIT 3: Dr. 'Funmi Olonisakin Identify key leadership issues in a variety of African contexts The practice of Leadership Dr. Godwin Murunga Discuss the extent to which leaders and group members share a common Dr. Abiodun Alao purpose in those contexts LESSON 9: Case Studies in the leadership process Describe the process of leadership that characterizes those contexts

NOTE: Scenarios allocated to Peer/Seminar Groups

10.30 11.00 Coee break

11.00 12.45 LESSON 7 Contd.

12.30 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 15.00 UNIT 5 Ms. Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli Explore self leadership as a critical skill for leadership Recognize a balanced self as a strategy for ecient and eective leadership. LESSON 14: Personal Mastery: The essence of self awareness in leadership

12.45 14.00 Lunch Break

14.00 15:30 LESSON 14 contd.

15.30 16.00 Tea break

16.00 17.00 LESSON 11: Mr. Desmond Davies + other Faculty Scenarios practice [In plenary]

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17:00 17:30 Wrap up Faculty meeting at close of day; Peer Groups meet to discuss Visioning and Scenarios; Mentors available to discuss individual Visioning assignment.

DAY 7 Wednesday, 23 October 2013

LEARNING OBJECTIVES TIME SUBJECT FACILITATOR At the end of the course participants will…

08:00-09:00 Seminar/Peer Groups Session 5 Group A: Reect on previous day's lessons Dr. Godwin Murunga Discuss key learning points from those lessons & Mr Michael Owiso

Group B: Dr. Abiodun Alao Dr. Mshai Mwangola

09.00 09:30 Review of day 6 Mr. Adewale Ajadi Discuss key issues emerging from seminar group discussions presentations by group coordinator and Faculty responsible.

09.30 10.30 UNIT 4: Dr. Godwin Murunga Learning from Ms Didiza's reections on leadership emergence; her experience Connecting formal knowledge with of the leadership process in her context; and factors that inuenced her Lived experiences eectiveness as a young female leader in that context. LESSON 12: Lessons from Practitioner reections With Ms. Thoko Didiza

10.30 11.00 Coee break

11.00 12.45 LESSON 12 contd.

12.30 14.00 Lunch break

14.00 15.00 UNIT 5 Mr. Desmond Davies Discuss strategic considerations in communicating to key audiences Essential tools for practicing evidence Identify key factors for leader eectiveness based leadership

LESSON 16: Communicating leadership ideas and decisions to various publics

15.00 15.30 Tea break

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15.30 17.00 LESSON 17: Mr. Desmond Davies Practice techniques for communicating with various publics Key factors in communicating through & Ms. Mounira Chaeib Practice techniques for engaging the media diverse media: Cases from Print and electronic media Radio and TV

17.00 17.30 Wrap up 18:00 19:00 Session to practice response to scenarios with Desmond Davies, Mshai Mwangola and Mounira Chaeib

DAY 8 Thursday, 24 October 2013

LEARNING OBJECTIVES TIME SUBJECT FACILITATOR At the end of the course participants will…

08:00-09:00 Seminar/Peer Groups Session 7 Group A: Reect on previous day's lessons Dr. Godwin Murunga Discuss key learning points from those lessons & Mr Michael Owiso

Group B: Dr. Abiodun Alao Dr. Mshai Mwangola

09.00 09:30 Review of day 7 Mr. Adewale Ajadi Discuss key issues emerging from seminar group discussions presentations by group coordinator and Faculty responsible.

09.30 10.30 UNIT 5 Ms. Mounira Chaeib A workshop with practical exercises for communicating through the radio. LESSON 18: Workshop on: Techniques of communicating to diverse audiences through the radio

10.30 11.00 Coee break

11.00 12.45 LESSON 18 contd.

12.30 14.00 Lunch break

14.00 15.00 LESSON 11: Mr. Desmond Davies Discuss strategic considerations in communicating to key audiences Simulation/scenarios practice Mounira Chaeib Identify key factors for leader eectiveness Dr. Mshai Mwangola 15.00 15.30 Tea break 15.30 17.00 Group sessions on visioning 17.00 17.30 Wrap up 18:00 19:00 Session to practice scenarios with Desmond Davies, Mshai Mwangola and Mounira Chaeib

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DAY 9 Friday, 25 October 2013

LEARNING OBJECTIVES TIME SUBJECT FACILITATOR At the end of the course participants will…

08:00-09:00 Seminar/Peer Groups Session 8 Group A: Reect on previous day's lessons Dr. Godwin Murunga Discuss key learning points from those lessons & Mr Michael Owiso

Group B: Dr. Abiodun Alao Dr. Mshai Mwangola

09.00 09:30 Review of day 8 Mr. Adewale Ajadi Discuss key issues emerging from seminar group discussions presentations by group coordinator and Faculty responsible.

09.30 10.30 SIMULATION EXERCISE Mr. Desmond Davies Respond to the scenarios provided for simulation practice, simulating the Based on scenarios practice video Ms. Mounira Chaeib roles of key decision makers recorded Demonstrate knowledge of key leadership issues identied and discussed in LESSON 13 contd: the course 10.30 11.00 Coee break 11.00 12.45 LESSON 13 contd. 12.30 14.00 Lunch break 14.00 15.00 LESSON 13: Ms. Mounira Chaeib SIMULATON Mr. Desmond Davies Based on scenarios practice recorded for radio 15.00 15.30 Tea break

15.30 17.00 LESSON 17 contd: Mr. Desmond Davies Key factors in communicating through & Ms. Mounira Chaeib diverse media: Other Faculty Cases from Print and electronic media Radio and TV Feedback on video and radio recordings:

17.00 17.30 Wrap up 18:00 19:00 Time with Mentors to discuss Visioning.

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DAY 10 Saturday, 26 October 2013

LEARNING OBJECTIVES TIME SUBJECT FACILITATOR At the end of the course participants will…

08:00-09:00 Seminar/Peer Groups Session 8 Group A: Reect on previous day's lessons Dr. Godwin Murunga Discuss key learning points from those lessons & Mr Michael Owiso

Group B: Dr. Abiodun Alao Dr. Mshai Mwangola

09.00 09:30 Review of day 9 Mr. Adewale Ajadi Discuss key issues emerging from seminar group discussions presentations by group coordinator and Faculty responsible.

09.30 10.30 Return to UNIT 4: Dr. 'Funmi Olonisakin Review individual and group experiences with visioning assignment LESSON 15: Ms. Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli Present personal vision statements from each participant; and vision statement The place of visioning in Leadership from each Peer/Seminar Group

10.30 11.00 Coee break 11.00 12.45 LESSON 15 contd. 12.30 14.00 Lunch break 14.00 15.00 EVALUATION & CONCLUSIONS Mr. Adewale Ajadi Mr. Michael Owiso 15.00 15.30 Tea break 15.00 15.30 Closing remarks by OSISA and African Leadership Centre

DAY 11 Sunday, 27 October

Departure from Intercontinental – to various destinations

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ORGANISATION FACULTY

Participants will be organized into dierent seminar/ peer groups from the A multi-disciplinary Faculty will deliver this course. The course Director, Dr. start. This is in addition to the main training sessions. Two seminar/peer groups 'Funmi Olonisakin will work with a team of 9 other trainers and facilitators to are envisaged in total. One or two faculty members (see faculty and assigned deliver the course content. tasks below) will be assigned to facilitate each seminar/peer group. Each group will meet for the rst hour of the day to review and discuss lessons from the Faculty members share roles between teaching, seminar/peer group training so far and to prepare group assignments as required. Mentors (from facilitation, mentoring including preparation of participants for visioning among the faculty) will be assigned to participants to work with them on assignment and simulation. In addition, Thoko Didiza, former provides preparations for their assignments including, for example, the visioning practitioner reections. project and, scenarios and other group work. Coordinators will also be identied among participants, to help facilitate various tasks, including, for example, timekeeping, and coordination of group meetings outside main programme among other things.

About the faculty

Dr. 'Funmi Olonisakin

is the founding Director of the African Leadership Centre. She is the Programme Director for the ALC King's College London's MSc degrees in Security, Leadership and Society and in Leadership and Development. She is also Research Associate with the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa. She served as the Director of the Conict, Security and Development Group at King's College London from 2003 until early 2013. Prior to this, she worked in the Oce of the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conict as Adviser on Africa. She previously held research positions in the Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London, where she co-Directed the African Security Unit; the Institute for Strategic Studies in the University of Pretoria, South Africa; and the Department of Political Science, University of Lagos Nigeria. Trained in Political Science (Bsc. Ife, Nigeria) and War Studies (PhD, King's College London), Olonisakin has positioned her work to serve as a bridge between academia and the world of policy and practice. Her extensive academic research and writing has contributed to strategic thinking in post-conict contexts and in the work of regional organizations such as ECOWAS and the African Union. She has a keen interest in contributing to eorts to tackle the structural roots of armed conict. She is a founding member of the African Security Sector Network (ASSN) and served as its West African Regional Coordinator from 2008 until 2012. From 2008-2010, she served on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Fragile States. Currently, she is a member of the Technical Committee of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's Index of African Governance and serves on the Board of the Tana High Level Forum on Security in Africa. For more details, see: http://www.africanleadershipcentre.org/2011-09-10-09-14-00/2011-09-15-04-54-39/dr-funmi-olonisakin.html

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Adewale Ajadi

is currently Adviser on Competitiveness, Innovation and Partnership to the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria. Member of the National Readers Panel for He is a facilitator, coach, systems consultant, and leadership educator. He has over twenty years experience working on Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and people, organizations and communities on issues that transform human interaction in direction of meaningful Further Education; Recipient of Honorary dialogue, authentic interaction and value creation. Adewale is a Barrister at Law, a former Panel member as well as MBA from Demontfort University; Fellow of specialist for the UK Industrial Tribunal System. He holds a Masters degree in International Business Economics from the the UK Leadership Forum; and Ambassador University of West England in addition to having studied leadership education at the Kennedy School of Government, of the Gloucestershire County All in the Harvard University and Complex Systems Theory with the New England Complex Systems Institute and MIT. He United Kingdom. His most recent book is developed the Framework for Excellence in Equality and Diversity (FEED) the rst such system used as a standard for Omoluwabi 2.0: A code of transformation in Diversity Excellence anywhere in the World. He also coaches TED Fellows and is a Mentor and Facilitator for the African 21st Century Nigeria. Leadership Centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Art, Manufactures and Commerce;

Dr. Abiodun Alao

is a senior member of the African Leadership He holds a Doctorate in War Studies from King's College London where he was a Ford Foundation Doctoral Scholar and Centre (ALC) King's College London faculty. also held an SSRC-MacArthur Post-Doctoral Fellowship. He has undertaken considerable assignments for international He teaches on the ALC MSc programmes, organisations. In 2000, he was part of the team that undertook a comprehensive Threat Assessment for Rwanda; and supervises Masters and PhD dissertations and between 2001 and 2002 he was part of the Team of Academic Experts that advised the Oce of the UN Secretary General chairs the Centre's Examination Board. He is on the Civil War in Sierra Leone. He co-authored the concept note for the Common Defence and Security Policy for the also a Senior Research Fellow with the Africa Union in 2003. He continues to hold Expert Adviser position for international organisations like the African Union, Conict Security and Development Group ECOWAS and the United Nations. He has held teaching and research positions at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife (CSDG). Abiodun holds a Bachelor's in History and the University of Zimbabwe where he was a Visiting Research Associate. For more details, see: and Masters in International Relations from http://www.africanleadershipcentre.org/2011-09-10-09-14-00/2011-09-15-04-58-50/dr-abiodun-alao.html the Universities of Ibadan and Ife respectively.

Mounira Chaieb

has over 20 years experience in broadcast and print Journalism, most of it with the BBC. She has been a Journalism Trainer, Editor, Presenter, Reporter and Producer with the BBC. She has tackled issues related to the Arab Spring, human rights, women's issues, Political Islam, relations between North African countries and countries south of the Sahara, among other things. As a Senior Broadcast Journalism Trainer for the BBC she was part of the team that trained new journalists joining the newly launched, BBC Arabic & Persian TV and other departments on dierent skills of Broadcast Journalism as well as the BBC Editorial Guidelines. She also delivered training to BBC Sta in the Kiev Bureau on feature-making skills. During her time with the Training Department, she devised a new course on Cultural aspects of British life for newcomers to

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the UK. She also mentored new journalists joining BBC Arabic throughout her career with the organization. Mounira is a Multi-lingual, experienced and condent journalist, capable of turning ideas into award-nominated and groundbreaking programmes. She produced and presented groundbreaking series of programmes in English and Arabic that were nominated for international awards and reviewed by all the major Newspapers including the Guardian, the Times, Financial Times and Time Out Magazine. She published in the BBC's 'Focus on Africa' Magazine and joined the BBC African Service to work on a daily English News and Current Aairs programme (Focus on Africa) and a live daily magazine Network Africa. Her main contribution was the extensive and almost daily coverage of stories from North Africa with relevance to sub-Saharan Africa. She has travelled widely for work in the Arab world, Europe, East & West Africa; and writes frequently for the Nigerian 'Guardian' & 'Pambazuka', an Online publication specializing in African aairs. For further information, see: http://mounirachaieb.com/

Desmond Davies

has been a journalist for over four decades African aairs for the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera and Press TV. Mr. Davies serves as the rst London Bureau Chief for the and has lived and worked in the UK since 1978 Ghana News Agency. In this role, he recruits correspondents in other parts of Africa for the Agency in the bid to make it a for a number of Africa-related magazines 'truly pan-African media organisation'. He also runs training programmes for journalists across Africa. He is a Mentor on such as New African, Africa Now and West the African Leadership Centre's Fellowship programme, where he also organises a training module on Strategic Africa. He has covered Africa extensively and Communications in Peace and Security. has provided expert commentary on

Dr. Eka Ikpe

is a Lecturer in Development Economics in Africa at the ALC, King's College London and Head of Fellowships also at the Dr. Ikpe holds a BA in Economics from the ALC. She has researched and written on a range of issues in development economics, security and development. These University of Leeds, MSc in Economics (with include: the role of the state in economic development; interaction between agriculture/ mineral resources/ reference to Africa) and a PhD in Economics industrialisation and economic development; development planning; regionalism, economic development and from the School of Oriental and African security in Africa; foreign direct investment; state fragility and donor-aid policy; security sector reform/transformation; Studies (SOAS), University of London. women, peace and security; and peacebuilding.

Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli

is the Executive Director of the Meeting Place and Resource Center for Women in Zurich and former Director of Akina Mama wa Afrika (London and Uganda). Trained in the elds of sociology, pedagogy, and conict resolution, she has been an educator and a specialist on women's human rights and race relations. She served as Co- Director of the Zurich Women's Shelter for Abused Women and Children; and led the youth awareness and civics training for Focus World, Switzerland.

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She has also been involved in concept development and training for the Swiss Police on domestic violence. As a member of the Social Party of Switzerland, she was the rst Black woman to contest for Parliament in Switzerland as part of a coalition between SP and FRAP. Zeedah is committed to the education of young women and girls in Africa. She recently founded the Resource Center for Women and Girls Trust in Kenya, with a agship programme, the Empowerment Camp for Girls, which became operational in 2007. Her hobby is photography. Her photographs have featured in exhibitions in Switzerland, the UK and at the United Nations in New York. Among other roles, she a Mentor on the African Leadership Centre Fellowship programme and sits on the Gender and Equality Commission for the City of Zurich.

Dr. Godwin Murunga

is the Acting Director of the African He is widely published in a number of international journals including Africa Development, African and Asian Studies, Leadership Centre and also a Senior Research Journal of Eastern African Studies, Journal of Higher Education in Africa and the AU Herald, to name but these few. He is Fellow at the Institute for Development currently co-editor of Journal of Contemporary African Studies. Dr. Murunga's publications include Spontaneous or Studies at the University of Nairobi. He holds a Premeditated? Post-Election Violence in Kenya, Discussion Paper 57 (Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute, 2011), a co-edited BA and MA from Kenyatta University and an book titled Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy (CODESRIA in association with Zed Books, 2007), an edited collection of MA and Ph.D. in History from Northwestern essays by Issa G. Shivji, Where is Uhuru? Reections on the Struggle for Democracy in Africa (Oxford: Fahamu Books, University, Ill., USA. Dr. Murunga is a former 2009) and a co-edited special issue of Africa Development, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2008 on The Politics of Knowledge Production Executive Committee Member of the Council on Africa: Nurturing the Fourth Generation. for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) based in Dakar, Senegal.

Dr. Mshai Mwangola

heads the African Peace Building Network (APN) Hub at the African Leadership Centre. APN Hub is a joint programme of interested in the facilitation of dialogue as the the Social Science Research Council, New York and the ALC. She is a performance scholar who prioritises knowing as interaction of dierent perspectives within a both a product and a process. Her work pays attention to the multiplicity of players within social / political processes conversation, par ticular ly through from the perspective of their engagement with knowledge; not only what they know and how they know it, but also performance projects that create forums that how that knowledge is then reected in their response to critical events, processes and issues. She is committed to the physically bring these perspectives into translation of intellectual work into multiple registers to facilitate its dissemination to dierent stakeholders the engagement with each other. Dr. Mwangola academy, policy makers, agents of intervention and the communities at the heart of the issues of concern.She is also holds a PhD from Northwestern University.

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Michael Owiso

has extensive professional experience in years within civil society organizations in similar elds. He has experience in training dierent levels of society in conict, peace, security and development participatory development. He holds an MA in International Relations from United States International University- issues with a special interest in conict Africa and a BA in Political Science from The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya. His PhD research is titled: management and post-conict state Transitional Justice and the Institutionalization of Democracy in Fragile Societies: A Study of the Truth, Justice and building. He has an excellent grasp Reconciliation Commission in Kenya. He is the author of: Foreign Aid and Conict Resolution in Africa: Experiences from conceptually and practically of African Kenya (Saarbrucken, Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011). He is also member of faculty at Maseno peace, security and development issues. He University-Kenya in the School of Development and Strategic Studies, teaching subjects in Political Science and has worked in various capacities for over 18 International Relations.

Thoko Didiza

Ms Angela Thoko Didiza served as Minister for Public Works of the Republic of South Africa from 22 May 2006 until 2008. Ms Didiza holds a BA degree majoring in Prior to her appointment, She was Minister for Agriculture and Land Aairs from 17 June 1999 until 22 May 2006 and as Sociology and Politics 2003; Honours degree Deputy Minister of Agriculture from May 1994 until June 1999. Ms Didiza worked as a Programme Ocer for Diakonia's in Politics 2007; and she obtained a Diploma Social Action Network unit from 1987 to March 1989; a Co-ordinator of National Youth Programme, South African in Personnel and Training Practice at Council of World Aliated Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) from March 1989 until 1993; a National Deputy Executive Education College in Durban 1989; General Secretary, South African Council of YWCA from 1993 until 1994. Ms Didiza also served as a Treasurer, Natal a Diploma in Journalism with Birnam Women's Organisation in 1986; as Women's Advisory Committee member of South African Council of Churches (SACC) Business College, Johannesburg 1991 and in 1987; as an Executive member of Inter-church Youth, SACC in 1989; Associate member of the Women's Development Diploma in Business and Financial Bank in 1991 and National General Secretary, Women's National Coalition from 1992 until February 1994. Management at Executive Education College, Rosebank in Johannesburg.

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Course Director Seminar Groups Dr. 'Funmi Olonisakin Godwin Murunga - lead for seminar groups Abiodun Alao Eka Ikpe Mshai Mwangola

Training sessions

Adewale Ajadi lead facilitator Michael Owiso co-lead 'Funmi Olonisakin Godwin Murunga Zeedah Meierhofer Mangeli Desmond Davies Mounira Chaeib Abiodun Alao

Mentoring

Zeedah Meierhofer Mangeli lead Mshai Mwangola Desmond Davies Mounira Chaeib