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Isaac Olawale Albert is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ibadan (Nigeria). He is a specialist in conflict analysis, early warning monitoring, peace process planning, monitoring and evaluation. He is a conflict management trainer and professional mediator. He established the MA and PhD degree programmes of the University of Ibadan in Peace and Conflict Studies (2000) and the MA and Ph.D degree programmes of the Ilorin in Peace and Strategic Studies (2009). He was also the UNDP (Accra, Ghana) Consultant for the establishment of the MA Peace and Development Studies course of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He was a co-founder of and a Research Associate to the Centre for Research on Inequality and Human Security (CRISE) at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom in 2003. He teaches “Theories and Analysis of Conflict, Peace and Security” on the three MA courses of the run by the Kofi Annan Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Accra, Ghana: (i) Conflict, Peace and Security, (ii) Gender, Peace and Security, and (iii) Executive MA in Conflict, Peace and Security.

He is a Consultant to the Ghana Accreditation Board (GAB) in African Studies, Defence Studies and International Politics. He served at various times as a Consultant to the UNCHS (Habitat), UNEAD, World Bank’s Urban Management Programme, USAID, USAID/OTI, DFID, Oxfam, IDASA, WANEP, US-African Command, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, National Defence College (Abuja), Command and Staff College (Jaji), Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (The Presidency, Abuja), and the Institute of Security Studies (Abuja).

In 2007, he served as the Country Director of the Nigeria Office of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA-Nigeria). He was a federal delegate to the 2014 National Conference in Nigeria and a Member of the Presidential Panel on the Review of Nigeria’s Defence Policy (2014/15). In March 2015, he chaired the pre-inauguration sub-committee of the present government in Nigeria on the “North east” (Boko haram) crisis. He is an Associate Member of the Finnish Folklore Fellows (Helsinki); a member of the International Network to Promote the Rule of Law; a Fellow and Board Chairman of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP/Nigeria) and the current Regional Board Chairman of the West African Network for Peacebuilding (Accra, Ghana).

Prof. Albert was the Pioneer Director of the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies of the University of Ilorin in 2009. He was the Director of the Institute of African Studies University of Ibadan from August 2010 t0 August 2013. He became the Pioneer Director of UI’s Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies in September 2015. He had all his three degrees (BA, MA and PhD) from the University of Ibadan but trained in peace processes at the United Nations International Leadership Academy in Amman (1999).

 

Quick Facts
NAME: ALBERT, Isaac Olawale, FNAL, AMff (Helsinki), fspsp, FICMC, FWAP (Accra, Ghana)
DATE OF BIRTH: August 5, 1959
MARITAL STATUS: Married (4 Children)
CURRENT ACADEMIC STATUS: Professor (African History, Peace and Conflict Studies)
 
NUMBER OF PHDs SUPERVISED: 17 (University of Ibadan, Nigeria); 2 (University of Ilorin, Nigeria)
NUMBER OF PHDs EXAMINED (Minus Ibadan role as “Internal Examiner”): 14 Nigeria; 1 Canada; 5 South Africa

 

Areas of Teaching / Research Interest
  • Social History of Africa
  • African Political Economy
  • Security Studies and Conflict Resolution
  • Gender Studies

 

"For a continent like Africa whose modernisation has been such a painful process for the majority of the populace, the continuous re-examination of each and every proposition is at the heart of Afrocentric consciousness.

Reduced to whether Africans are the origin of their own disconnect from modernity or some extra-African forces, the Africans share the blame to a greater extent. European imperialism cannot solely be blamed for underdeveloped Africa. Such position suffers from Marxist mono-causality. After all, Asia and Latin America equally experienced Euro-American imperialism but over which many Asian and Latin American countries have transcended. The political rascality, the hereditary democracy and permanent presidency that define the African leadership landscape must be uniquely African problems for which we can't blame outsiders.

Nonetheless, 'African solutions to African problems' is not an innocent phrase but a contextually loaded one."

Prof. Isaac Olawale Albert

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