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born 1965 Nigeria
Funmi Olonisakin (born 8 February 1965) is a British Nigerian scholar, who is a Professor of leadership, peace and conflict at King's College London, and an Extra-Ordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria.
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Building institutions and norms for future peace requires considering the ground realities of people and places who are often marginalised in global decision-making.
The programme exposes African women to current thinking and national, regional and international institutions involved in tackling conflict, peace and security in Africa.
The aim is to observe the complex and dynamic nature of how peace, development, and conflict are interpreted, reimagined, and reinterpreted by different people across age, gender, and social status.
I also contribute to efforts to create spaces for the development of that potential. The work is by no means easy.
Advances in science and technology are critical drivers of war and peace in the future, and determinants of where power lies, who has agency, and how that agency is exercised are underpinned by this.
I have worked for many years in the field of international security, a field populated largely by male experts and often dominated by male-led military and security establishments.
I call myself a feminist because I promote and defend the rights of women to realise their fullest potential, free from the oppression of patriarchy in all its forms.
Covid has affected and impacted everything and some of the impacts will be permanent. It will play out on the issues and questions that are affecting people’s lives and living in the most immediate way.
I head a policy research unit at Kings College London on conflict, security and development, direct a peace and security Fellowship programme for African women and teach.
We need to promote participation of self-identified feminists in strategic political, social and economic institutions. Simultaneously, we need to strengthen our collective knowledge building and the effective dissemination of that knowledge.