Cyril I. Obi
Research Programme
Post-Conflict Transition, the State and Civil Society in Africa
Programme co-ordinator at NAI since 2005.
Academic background
Cyril I. Obi holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Lagos. He was a Post-Doc Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College Oxford. Prior to joining NAI in 2005, he became Associate Research Professor at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs and was the 2004 Claude Ake Visiting Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.
Subject areas
West Africa, Nigeria, conflict and peace, environmental politics and security, African politics and development.
Workshop report
Report from the Nordic Africa Institute-Africa Leadership Centre Workshop on Civil Society and Regional Peace and Security in Africa (pdf), held at the African Leadership (ALC) in Nairobi, July 22-23, 2010.