Dudziro Nhengu
Africa University

Dudziro Nhengu is a governance, gender, peace, security and conflict resolution scholar-practitioner, currently finalizing her PhD in Leadership, Peace and Governance. She has managed a Gender Peace and Security project for UN Women for five years in Zimbabwe. Dudziro has over 15 years’ experience in peacebuilding and mediation programming and management, project monitoring and evaluation, praxis-oriented research, policy analysis, capacity-building of security sector actors and community women in the area of peacebuilding and mediation. She has worked with disadvantaged groups, community women, traditional leaders, youth groups and market women for personal empowerment, resilience-building and community relations transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Francio Guadeloupe
University of Amsterdam

Social & Cultural Anthropologist by training, Prof. Francio Guadeloupe who is also a senior research fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV-KNAW), combines public anthropology with doing ethnographic research. His research looks at how popular understandings of national belonging, ethnic diversity, cultural heritage, religious identity, and mass media constructions of truth, continue to be impacted by colonial racisms and global capital.