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Blessings Msowoya
Lecturer
Mr. Msowoya is a lecturer in development studies at the Department of Governance, Peace and Security Studies (GPSS) under the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He holds a Master of Arts in development studies and a Bachelor of Social Science degree in Social Work. He is also pursuing his doctoral studies in development studies at the University of Malawi. His research interests are in international trade and investment; institutions, isomorphic change, public sector management and development; migration, diaspora relations, remittances and development; foreign aid regimes; poverty, inequality and development; as well as climate change adaptation and sustainable development. He has conducted research on such topics as ‘Informal Care and Social Support Systems for the Elderly’, the ‘Effect of Remittances on Productive Asset Acquisition’ and published with other scholars on various issues including a co-authored book chapter on the ‘Evolution of Social Welfare and Social Work in Malawi’. Currently, Blessings Msowoya sits on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Quality Assurance Committee as a GPSS representative. Also, he has taught at various public and private universities including Malawi University of Science and Technology and the Catholic University of Malawi.
Aubrey Kabisala
Lecturer & HOD
MA, BA.Hu.
Brief Biography
Aubrey Kabisala is a Lecturer at the Department of Governance, Peace and Security Studies (2015-). He graduated from the University of Malawi in 2011 with a Master of Arts in Political Science. His Masters research focused on Political Party Coalitions in Malawi. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts (Humanities) from the same University. Prior to joining Mzuzu University, Aubrey served as Principal Foreign Service Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. He also taught at Blantyre International University between 2010 and 2012. He is a member of the Political Science Association – Malawi. Mr. Kabisala has participated and contributed to several policy discourses, including the discourse on humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, which lead to the adoption of the international treaty banning Nuclear Weapons in 2017; and a number of local policies including the Diaspora Engagement Policy, Foreign Policy, National Security Policy and Migration and Citizenship Policy. Mr Kabisala specialises in international security agreements, intergovernmental relations, international migration and criminal justice processes. .
Department
Governance, Peace and Security Studies
Faculty
Humanities and Social Science
Designation
Lecturer
Email
kabisala.a@mzuni.ac.mw, alkabisala@gmail.com
Phone number
+265999391522
Courses Taught:
International Relations, Political Theory, Introduction to Politics and Government, Correctional Services Management, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Migration and Development, Research Methods, Regional Integration
Professional Associations:
Southern Africa Defence and Security Management Network (SADSEM), Political Science Association (PSA) – Malawi
Selected Publications
Kabisala, A & Kanyama, M (2018) ‘Examining the recurrence of conflicts in Mangochi district in Malawi’, Southern African Peace and Security Studies, 6(1): Accepted for publication. (http://www.saccps.org/journal.html)
Selected Conference Papers:
2017: Dilemma of Heritage Preservation: Development versus Preservation at Lake Malawi World Heritage Site, A paper presented at a conference on ‘Historical Heritage and Security’, Osaka University, Japan, 15 November.
2015: Malawi’s Diaspora Engagement Program: Challenges and Prospects, A paper presented at a conference on ‘Advancing Migration Cooperation with Partner Countries through capacity building: Mieux’s experience in delivering peer-to-peer demand-driven migration expertise’ Thon Hotel EU, Brussels, Belgium, 22 September
Eugenio Njoloma
Lecturer
MSsc. BSoc (Hons)
Brief Biography
Eugenio Njoloma graduated with a Master of Social Science in International Studies from Rhodes University (South Africa) after completing degrees at the North West University (Mafikeng Campus, South Africa) and Uganda Martyrs University (Uganda). He taught at the Catholic University of Malawi in the Department of Political Leadership before taking up his appointment at Mzuzu University. His research interests are in the areas of foreign policy, conflict management, terrorism, and security and development. He has penned over 50 opinion pieces in the Lamp Magazine, one of Malawi’s leading magazine for contributions on topical issues.
Department
Governance, Peace and Security Studies
Faculty
Humanities and Social Science
Designation
Lecturer
Email
njoloma.e@mzuni.ac.mw/ eugenionjoloma @yahoo.it
Phone Numbers
+265994316109/+265888194267
Professional Association:
Southern Africa Defence and Security Management Network (SADSEM).
Courses taught:
Regional Integration and Cooperation, Terrorism, Security and Development, Arms Control and Non Proliferation, Conflict Prevention and Resolution.
Publications
Njoloma, E., 2017, The Effects of Politicized Ethnicity on National Cohesion in Democratic Malawi, Southern African Peace and Security Studies, 6(2):
Njoloma, E. 2015. The Role of History in Malawi’s Foreign Policy towards Zimbabwe. The Journal of the Catholic University of Malawi 1(1): 102-112.
Njoloma, E., 2020, Straddling between Convergence and Divergence: A Constructivist View of Malawi’s Foreign Policy in Post-Independence Africa. In Bischoff, P.H. (ed), African Foreign Policies: Selecting Signifiers to Explain Agency, London: Routledge.
Kanyangale, M.,and Njoloma, E., 2020, Relational-based Resilience of a Public University: A case Study on Losing a Library by Mzuzu University in Malawi, South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science 86(1): 14-25.
Njoloma, E.and Kamanga, G., 2019, The Effects of Crime on Tourist’s Travel Decision to Malawi, African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure 8(3): 1-11.
Kamanga, G. and Njoloma, E.2019, the Socio-economic Impact of Tourism on Local Community in Nkhata Bay district, Malawi. In Gursory, D and Nunkoo, R (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Impacts: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives, London: Routledge.
Njoloma, E.2017. The Effects of Politicized Ethnicity on National Cohesion in Democratic Malawi, Southern African Peace and Security Studies, 6(2).
Njoloma, E.2015. The Role of History in Malawi’s Foreign Policy towards Zimbabwe. The Journal of the Catholic University of Malawi 1(1): 102-112.
Conference Presentations
• The effect of cultural heritage on national cohesion in Malawi paper presented at a Historical Heritage and Security, organized by the Southern African Centre for Collaboration on Peace and Security and hosted by Osaka School of Public Policy, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. November 2017.
• Socioeconomic impact of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative on Africa: Case of Malawi paper presented at Association of Political Studies (SAAPs) Regional Colloquium, Summerstrand Inn, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. September 2009.
• Presenter, Launch of the Competence Centre for African Research, University of St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland.January 13-16, 2020,
Paper Presented: Challenges of Information and Communication Technology to Malawi’s Urge for Human Security.
Other Publications (opinions and analysis)-The Lamp Magazine
• Counting Malawi’s benefits in the Southern African Development Community.
• Diplomatic cost of bad political leadership.
• Measuring the unconditionality of China’s aid to Malawi.
• President Banda must resist unnecessary western imperialism.
• The hideous truth about Mandela’s glorification: the question of land and black liberation in Zimbabwe and Azania (South Afrika).
• Malawi reeling on the margins of political divide
• The implications of the marriage law on the matrilineal culture
• Craving transformative leadership in Malawi
• Politics of succession in Malawi
Research Interests
Foreign policy
Conflict management
Terrorism
Security and development
George Mhango
Senior Lecturer
MA, BA(Pub).
Brief Biography
Mr George A. Mhango, is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Governance, Peace and Security Studies at Mzuzu University. He holds a Master of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts (Public Administration) from the University of Malawi. Mr Mhango has participated and contributed to a number of policy and scholarly discourses on regional security architectures, national security policy analysis, and the politics of development in southern Africa. He has designed training modules in Security Sector Governance for a number of organizations including the ECOWAS’ centre of excellence in peace and security at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Centre (KAIPTC). Furthermore, Mr Mhango is part of a sub-regional network of academics that provide policy insights to the SADC Organ for Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation through the Southern Africa Defence and Security Management (SADSEM) network. He also serves on the editorial boards of a number of local and international journals.
Department
Governance, Peace and Security Studies
Faculty
Humanities and Social Science
Designation
Senior Lecturer
Email
mhango.g@mzuni.ac.mw
Altanate Email
mhangoga@yahoo.com
Courses taught:
Security and Development, Public Policy, Regional Integration and Cooperation, Research Methods, Political theory, introduction to Politics and Government, International Relations, Migration and Development, Public Safety and Security, Introduction to Security
Professional Affiliations:
Mr Mhango is a member of the following bodies:
• International Political Science Association (IPSA),
• Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA),
• South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS),
• Political Science Association (PSA) – Malawi,
• Organization for Social Science Research in East and Southern Africa (OSSREA),
• African Association of Public Administration and Management (AAPAM),
• Southern Africa Defence and Security Management Network (SADSEM),
• Southern African Centre for Collaboration on Peace and Security (SACCPS).
Research Focus:
African International relations, (Sub)regional security architectures, national security architectures, public policy analysis, peacemaking, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, gender and security, governance and development, security and development,
Selected Publications:
Mhango G.A. and Kithatu-Kiwekete A. (2017) ‘Peace enforcement in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Force Intervention Brigade, Southern African Peace and Security Studies, 6(1).
Mhango, G.A (2013) ‘Contesting the political space of decentralization and development planning in rural Malawi: Insights from project selection in Mulanje and Mwanza districts’, in G.K Scott and M Wallis (eds) Citizen Engagement, Decentralization and Public Service Delivery in Africa, Nairobi: Association of African Public Administration and Management (AAPAM).
Mhango, G.A (2012) ‘Is quiet diplomacy in consonance with peacemaking in SADC? Lessons from Zimbabwe’, Southern African Peace and Security Studies, 1(1): 14-25
Selected Conference Papers
2017: The Impact of Conflict on Historical Heritage Preservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, A paper presented at a conference on ‘Historical Heritage and Security’ Osaka University, Japan, 15 November
2015: Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and International Security Cooperation: Implications for National Security Policy Priorities in Malawi, A paper presented at a Security Summit themed ‘Addressing Contemporary Challenges to Security and Development in Malawi’, Bingu International Conference Centre (BICC), Lilongwe, Malawi, 8-9 September
2014: Youth, Violence and Political Socialization in Southern Africa: Mapping a Research Agenda, A paper presented at a conference on ‘Youth and Conflict in Africa’, jointly hosted by the Dag Hammarskjold Institute of Peace and Security (DHIPS) and the Southern African Centre for Collaboration on Peace and Security (SACCPS), Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia, 8th February
2013: Peacebuilding in Southern Africa: (Re)Framing the Agenda, A paper presented at the Southern African Centre for Collaboration on Peace and Security (SACCPS) conference on ‘Peace Building in Southern Africa’, Chrismar Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia, 21st – 22nd September.
2013: Southern Africa Development Community and Human Security: Between Rhetoric and Practice? a paper presented at the conference ‘Reflections on Southern African Peace and Security’, Southern African Centre for Collaboration on Peace and Security/Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State, 11th February
2012: Responding to Regional Conflicts: How Good are SADC’s Reflexes for Peacekeeping? A paper presented at the Southern African Centre for Collaboration on Peace and Security (SACCPS) conference on ‘Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement in Southern Africa’, Chrismar Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia, 21st – 23rd September.
2012: Security and Development in Nascent Democracies: A Critical Assessment of Malawi’s Trajectory, A paper presented at the Africa Centre for Strategic Studies’ Topical Outreach Programme Series (TOPS) Symposium on ‘Security and Development in a Democracy’, Sunbird Capital Hotel, Lilongwe, Malawi, 25th – 26th July.
2012: State Fragility in Hybrid Regimes: Early Warnings in Malawi, A paper presented at the Department of Political Science Lecture Series, University of Stellenbosch, 17th February
Theodora C N Thindwa
Lecturer
MSc, BA.Hu.
Brief Biography
Ms Theodora Charlotte Ndipo Thindwa is a Lecturer at Mzuzu University in the department of Governance, Peace and Security Studies. Ms Thindwa has been working as the student’s Research Coordinator in the department since 2014. She holds a Master of Science in Development Studies from the University of Mauritius. She has previously worked with the Malawi Parliament as a researcher. She has participated in various local and international conferences. In November, 2016 she received the University for Peace scholarship under the ‘Women Scholarship for Peace for the Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Development.’
Department
Governance, Peace and Security Studies
Faculty
Humanities and Social Science
Designation
Lecturer
Email
thindwa.t@mzuni.ac.mw
Courses Taught:
Leadership and Management, Peace Studies, Human Resource Management, Security and Development, Sociology, Introduction to Social Psychology.
Professional Affiliations:
Southern Africa Defence and Security Management Network (SADSEM).
Research and publication interests:
human security, disarmament and development, Peace Studies, conflict transformation, Security and Development, China-Africa Relations, women empowerment, resource management, private security regulation, debt and poverty in third world countries and social protection.
Publications:
Thindwa, T. (2023) “Foregin Involvement in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism” (PCVE) in A. van nieuwkerk, Shule, L., &S., Buchanan-Clarke(eds), African Persipectives on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Southern Africa Security Review 2022, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Mozambique). Available from: https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/mosambik/20438.pdf
Thindwa, T. (2014) ‘China-Malawi relations: An analysis of trade patterns and development implications’, African-East Asian Affairs, Issue 4, pp 45-77
Thindwa, T.,Chawinga, W., & Dube, G.(2018),Information-seeking Behaviour of Security Studies students: A case study, South African Journal of Information Management, Vol 21, No 1 (2019)
Selected Conference Papers
November 2017: The role of traditional justice mechanism in promoting peace in Africa presented at a conference on ‘Historical Heritage and Security’, Osaka, Japan 15th November
November 2017: Status of Security Sector Reform(SSR) and human security in southern Africa presented at the ‘Security Sector Reform and Governance (SSR/G)conference as a tool for democratic and prosperous peace?’ Maputo, Mozambique.24th-25th November,2017.
December 2014: Regional Training Workshop on Research Design and Methods, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) – African Peacebuilding Network, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 8-9 December. Presented draft proposal on “Youth unemployment as a manifestation of Human Security in Malawi
October 2015: The New Geopolitics of Peace Operations: A Dialogue with Southern Africa, SIPRI-FES-SADSEM, Maputo, Mozambique, 28-29 October. I was one of the panellists on the topic of ‘what could be future contributions of countries in SADC to peace operations and conflict resolution’ and ‘how international efforts by AU, UN, RECs and individual countries can be better coordinated.’
March 2010: Parliamentary Committees and their effectiveness in ensuring Horizontal Accountability: a comparative analysis of Public Appointments Committees in Malawi, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Scotland, Paper presented at a conference titled ‘Parliamentary Accountability and Local Governance in Malawi: A stock take.’4th-5th March
