Nompilo Ndlovu

Dr. Ndlovu is an oral historian whose Ph.D. (Historical Studies) focused on mass violence, memory, and local transitional justice initiatives in post-colonial Zimbabwe. She earned MSocSci and BSocSci [Hons] degrees in Social Development and a BSocSci (Gender) from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She also fulfilled an Executive Masters at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations. In addition, Nompilo is an alumnus of the African Leadership Centre where she completed the Peace and Security Fellowship for African Women (2011/2012) and fulfilled a secondment at the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) representing the East Africa/Horn of Africa region – amongst other factors – addressing climate-related conflict. She currently serves as the Cape Town Centre Director for the Global Institute – Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE).

Dr. Ndlovu has over 10 years’ experience working as a practitioner mostly within the disciplines of Gender, Development, and Security throughout the African Continent. Her research expertise interconnects socio-economic-political relations (with a focus on exclusion and marginalization), sustainability, conflict, trauma, and justice, as well as leadership, using qualitative methods such as life histories and vernacular archives.

Ndlovu has policy and research affiliations with a variety of institutions such as the South African Commission for Gender Equality; the Women’s Funding Network (Bridge Builders); the Geneva Centre for Security Policy; the International Oral History Association, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change; the ODI; the African Union and the United Nations (Peace and Security apparatus’).