Francis Onditi

Associate Professor
Riara University, Nairobi
Kenya

Francis Onditi is Associate Professor of structural conflictology & Head of Department (HoD), School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Riara University, Nairobi, Kenya. An authority on the geography of African conflicts and their evolutionary nature, he is also a Senior Research Associate (SRA) with the Qatar-South Africa Centre for Peace and Intercultural Understanding, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2019 he was awarded the prestigious AISA Fellowship by South Africa’s Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). In 2022, he was ranked among the World’s Top 2% scientists/researchers of the year listed by the Stanford University, USA. Having authored and edited 7 major volumes and over 100 articles and book chapters, in 2023, he was awarded the Erasmus Mundus Global teaching fellowship at Leipzig University, Germany.