Israel Nyaburi Nyadera, Ph.D., teaches international relations at Egerton University. He currently holds the Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral fellowship at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland, and is a non-resident fellow at the Irregular Warfare Initiative (a joint project of Princeton University and Westpoint). He has been a visiting fellow under the India-Africa Security fellowship program at MP-IDSA, New Delhi, India, an Inter-Russia visiting fellow at the MGIMO University, a Global Africa young researchers’ fellow at LASDEL and a Charles E. Scheidt Fellow for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, at the George Manson University.
Md. Nazmul Islam, Ph.D., is a distinguished academic, a researcher and currently serving as an assistant professor of Political Science and Public Administration and the head of Türkiye, Asia, and Indo-Pacific Studies, ULİSA, at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University (AYBU), Turkiye. He teaches postgraduate courses in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Ankara University and the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Social Sciences University of Ankara (ASBU). Besides, Prof. Islam worked as a special advisor at the Foreign Relations and Protocol Department, Grand National Assembly of Türkiye--Turkish Parliament (TBMM).
Billy Agwanda is a Ph.D. presidential scholar at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution. He has published in several international journals such as Politics and Governance, African Journal on Terrorism; the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs; and African Journal on Conflict Resolution and contributed book chapters in the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies and the Routledge Handbook of Conflict Response and Leadership in Africa. His interests include peace and conflict resolution, critical terrorism studies, international security and foreign policy analysis. He has mainly worked as an adjunct lecturer, as a teaching assistant and as a junior project coordinator for international training projects.