Public Engagement

Select public engagement activities since 2000

Select talks and keynotes

  • 2018: “Leadership and “Conversation” In Dialogue: Securing Peace In the Unromantic Context, By ‘Funmi Olonisakin”, Inaugural Lecture at King’s College London, July
  • 2014: “Youth and Electoral Violence in Africa: Lessons for Nigeria”, Public Lecture at the INEC Electoral Institute, Abuja, Nigeria, December
  • 2014: “Researching Africa” Keynote at a conference organised by African Research Students Network to discuss Africa focused research by graduate students in London, UCL, 17 March. For analysis of this keynote by Melanie Archer of the Africa Research Institute, see: http://www.africaresearchinstitute.org/blog/5-things-to-remember-when-researching-africa/
  • 2013: “The Role of Leadership in Peacebuilding in Africa,” Keynote at the 7th International Conference of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP), Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria, 25-27 March
  • 2012: “The contribution of normative frameworks to gender mainstreaming in African armed forces”, keynote at the Leaning Forward: Gender Mainstreaming in African Armed Forces Workshop, African Centre for Strategic Studies, Washington DC, 12 September
  • 2012: “Lessons from Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone”, presented at the Hosei GSI Sierra Leone Symposium: Security and Development Nexus, organised by the Faculty of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies (GIS), Hosei University, Tokyo, 5-6 July
  • 2012: “Women and Militarism” presented at the 12th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development, Istanbul, April
  • 2011: “The changing context of peace and security in Africa” presentation at the 4th Thematic Workshop of the African Union Panel of the Wise on Strengthening Political Governance for Peace, Security and Stability In Africa, Zanzibar, December
  • 2011: “Revisiting the Leadership versus Institutions Debate in Peacebuilding in Africa”, presentation at the Retreat of Mediators and Special Envoys, organised by the African Union, Cairo, Egypt, September
  • 2010: “Ten Years Since UN Resolution 1325: Envisioning its impact in 2020”, Keynote at the High Level Seminar, 1325 in 2020: Looking Forward, Looking Back, organised by ACCORD in collaboration with the African Union Peace and Security Council, Durban, South Africa, 8-9 October
  • 2010: “Militancy and Violence in West Africa”, presented at the Conference on Radicalisation and Violence, Al Jazeera Centre for Studies in collaboration with ESRC, Doha, Qatar, 26-27 September
  • 2010: “Examining the inclusion of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Regional Mechanisms” Conference on the ECOWAS Conflict Prevention Framework, ECOWAS, Abuja, January
  • 2009: “Youth, militancy and violence in Africa” presentation at the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) sponsored conference on “Radicalisation and Violence”, April
  • 2008: “Are Conflicts Manageable?” presented at the workshop on “Ending Wars and Building Peace”, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, 28 March
  • 2007: “Contextual and Approach Issues in Reforming the Security Sector in Post-Conflict Situations: Focus on West Africa”, paper presented at the 7th Global Forum on Reinventing Governance Government: Building Trust in Government, Vienna, June
  • 2007: “Gender and Security Sector Reform in Liberia”, regional seminar on Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Liberia at the Kofi Anan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, March
  • 2006: “Facilitating national ownership of Liberia’s security reform process”, presentation at Forum convened by Liberia’s Governance Reform Commission, Monrovia, November
  • 2005: “Experiences of conflict management and reduction”, presented at the workshop on Global Governance of Security and Development organised by the Conflict, Security and Development Group, King’s College London and Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, November
  • 2005: “A World at War? After September 11 and the Iraq War, What Can We Learn?: An African Perspective,” presented at CIDOB Foundation’s Debate, in War and Peace in the 21st Century, Barcelona Institute of International Affairs, Barcelona, January
  • 2004: “Reforming the Security Sector in Post-Conflict Settings”, presented at the Conference on Global Development and Human Security, Delhi, India, January.
  • 2003: “Security Sector Governance in West Africa”, at a Conference on Security Sector Reform organised by DCAF and the UN Office in Geneva,
  • 2002: “Peacekeeping by regional organisations in Africa” paper presented at the International Studies Association, Texas, USA
  • 2001: “Regional Mechanisms for the Protection of Children Affected by War in West Africa”, at the Conference on War-Affected Children, organised by the Innocenti Institute, UNICEF and Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Florence, July
  • 2000: “The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children in Sierra Leone” at International Conference on War-Affected Children, organised by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada, Winnipeg, September
  • 2000: “Children and the Liberian Civil War”, West African Conference on War Affected Children, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ghana and Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada, April

[PREMIUM TIMES] 2018: “Leadership and “Conversation” In Dialogue: Securing Peace In the Unromantic Context, By ‘Funmi Olonisakin”, Inaugural Lecture at King’s College London, July