He was a Swiss Academy Post-doctoral Fellow at Cambridge and oversaw the Conflict Transformation & Peace Studies Programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, for several years. He has broad research and community engagement interests and has worked for various Universities in Africa and Europe, the European Commission, local and iNGOs and as CEO of a leadership development agency. More recently he served as lead consultant for Save the Children and as the inter-agency Child Protection Assessment Coordinator for UNICEF in Northern Syria. He has an adjunct association with the International Centre of Non-violence (ICON) and the Peacebuilding Programme at the Durban University of Technology and is Executive Director of the SADC office of Good Governance Africa, an NGO dedicated to enhancing governance on the continent.