IFPNP Session

      

IFPNP- IV, 2025-2026

Understanding  the Nature of Conflict 

About the Speaker 

 Dorcas Ettang (Prof.) is an Associate Professor and is the Acting Director at the International Centre of Non-violence at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. She is also UNESCO Co-chair on Education for Peace and Transformative Solidarity .

 She was Senior Lecturer and Conflict Transformation and Peace Studies Programme Coordinator at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa.

She is a political analyst on analysis and commentary on security developments on national and international TV and radio. She has worked with the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, South Africa, the Interagency Child Pro-tection Assessment Coordinator on Northern Syria, at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Accra, Ghana, and the United Nations Political Affairs Division in New York, United States. She holds a PhD in Conflict Transformation and Peace Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Master’s in Political Science from the University of Windsor, Canada and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies with minors in French, Public Administra-tion and International Studies from Bishop’s University, Quebec – Canada. Her research interests are in mi-gration and conflict, identity conflicts, African politics, Community Security and Governance.

Professional membership

South African Association of Political Science (SAAPS) African Association of Political Science (AAPS)

Publications

Prof Ettang has published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Peace and Conflict Review, Alternations, Africa Development, Journal of African Elections, Politikon, and Gender & Behaviour.

Rabele, L., Adeogun, T., and Ettang, D. (2025) Mediation in Sudan and Ethiopia: Lessons Learnt from the Gambia Track III Mediation Process. Unisa: Politea

Gbadeyan, O.J; Ettang, D.; Oyebamiji, S.I.; Osadola, O.S.; Ola, A.A.; Odedokun, E.A.; and Agidigbi, E.R. (2024) Local Conflict Management Strategies and Resilient Factors among selected Feuding Communities in Kwara State, Nigeria. Africa Renaissance, 21 (4), 231-248.

Ettang D, Belli A, Caroli G, Denje T.M, Diji C, Kadry S, Medina L, Madurga-Lopez I, Nying'uro P, Okem A.E, Oluoch J, Pacillo G, Villa V, Schapendonk F, Kenduiywo, B. and Wamukoya, G. (2023). Climate Change, Peace and Security in Africa. Policy Brief. African Group of Negotiators Experts Support.

Ettang, D. (2023). Exploring the Role of Civil Society in Countering Organised Crime. In Vieira, M. (ed.) Global Approach and State Fragility in Organised Crime. Costa Rica: United BUniversity of Peace Press.

Ettang, D. and James, G.O. (2022). Community Policing and Community-Based Security Regimes in Africa. In: Tar, U.A. and Dawud, D.M. (eds) Policing Criminality and Insurgency in Africa: Perspectives on the Changing Wave of Law Enforcement. Maryland: Lexington Books.

Ettang, D., Tella, O. (2022). ‘First Comes Love, then Comes Marriage?’: Exploring the Narratives and Experiences of South African Partners of Nigerian Male Immigrants in South Africa. In: Isike, C., Isike, E.M. (eds) Conflict and Concord. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.

Ettang, D. (2022) Migrant Learners in a COVID-19 Context: Exploring Strategies for School Leader-ship and Management. Alternation.

Olowojolu, O. and Ettang, D. (2021). Boko Haram Insurgency and Displaced Persons: A case study of the Damare IDP Camp, Adamawa State in Sleeping Giant? Nigeria’s Domestic and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century. Tella, O. Switzerland: Springer.

Ettang, D. and Ogunnubi, O. (2020) Causes, Effects and Implications of Political Violence and Disorder in West Africa: The Cases of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Nigeria. In Contemporary Security Issues in Africa. Amusan, L. and Badmus, I.A. (eds) Washington: Academica Press.

Ettang, D. and Leeke, N. (2019). Africa’s Emerging Giants and the Drug Scourge: Exploring a Nigeria - South African Bilateral Partnership. In Nigeria-South Africa Relations and Regional Hegemonic Competence, Tella, O. (eds). Switzerland: Springer