Dr Patrick Karanja Mbugua is a Senior Research Fellow at the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD). He is a peace and conflict scholar-practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in applied research, conflict analysis, peacebuilding, governance and strategic advisory work across Africa, with particular expertise in Sudan, South Sudan and the wider East and Horn of Africa.
Dr Mbugua holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and has held senior research, policy and programme leadership positions with ACCORD, Amnesty International, the Africa Policy Institute and multi-country civil society and development consortia. His research examines the relationships between power, identity, governance, political transformation, memory and violence, and the processes through which peace is constructed and contested. His current scholarship is organised around three interconnected concerns: peace as design, peace as meaning & interpretation, and peace as uncertainty and decision-making.
He combines academic scholarship with extensive field and policy experience, bridging research, practice and policy engagement.
