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Prof Philippe Tunamsifu Shirambere

Senior Higher Education Research Coordinator

Prof Philippe TUNAMSIFU SHIRAMBERE is the Senior Higher Education Research Coordinator at the Inter-University Council of East Africa (IUCEA). As a full professor, he has 19 years of successful academic experience.

Before joining IUCEA in April 2024, he was in higher education and mainly taught International Humanitarian Law and Legal Research and Writing at the Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs (ULPGL-Goma) in the Democratic Republic of Congo and as a visiting Professor in various universities in the DRC and abroad. In the meantime, he served in several higher education and research institutions at the national and regional levels in different capacities, namely as Deputy Dean in charge of research, editor in chief of a law journal (Annales de la Faculté de Droit) (2016-2024), Director of the Centre Africain de Recherche et d’Education à la Paix et à la Démocratie (2021-2024) at the ULPGL-Goma. He was a visiting Professor of International Human Rights Law at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace Africa Programme in Mogadishu (2019-2023), of transitional justice and International criminal law at the Police Senior Command and Staff College Bwebajja of Kampala (online 2020); of international humanitarian law at the Hope Africa University in Bujumbura (2020).

Research Fellow at the Institute for Dispute Resolution in Africa (IDRA) at the University of South Africa (2017-2020); Research consultant on transitional justice at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (2016-2018); Research Assistant at IDRA/UNISA in South Africa (2014-2015); Research consultant at War Child UK (2021); Research consultant and analyst at Pole Institute (2022-2023); Research consultant and analyst at Levy Mwanawasa Regional Centre on Democracy and Good Governance of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (DRC 2022); Research consultant and analyst at Mercy Corps UK (Goma 2021); Research Consultant at Impunity Watch (RDC 2020-2021); Expert au Comité Technique Interinstitutionnel du Lutte contre l’Apatridie en RDC (2020, 2022).

He received his doctorate in Criminal and Procedural Law with a specialization in transitional justice from the University of South Africa in 2016 and has an LLM/MA in International Law and the Settlement of Disputes from the United Nations-mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) in 2011 (San José, Costa Rica), and LLB in law from ULPGL-Goma in 2005 (RDC) respectively.

Tunamsifu’s areas of specialization include Transitional Justice; International Humanitarian Law; International Criminal Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution; International Human Rights Law; Conflict Resolution; Culture of Peace, and Conflict Analysis in which he has published four books and numerous peer-reviewed articles.

In February 2021, he won the prize of the 2nd edition of the Francophone Africa writing competition in International Humanitarian Law 2020 organized by the Regional Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC/ CICR Côte d’Ivoire) for the article « Droit international humanitaire et Covid-19 en prisons et autres lieux de détention en RDC ».


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