Bio
Michael Aeby is a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Basel and an associate University of Cape Town’s Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa. His academic and policy research focuses on the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA), mediation, civil society inclusion, peace agreement implementation, transitional power-sharing, intrastate conflicts and coups d’états in Africa.
Michael holds a PhD and MA in African History from the University of Basel. He has worked at the University of Edinburgh and the Graduate Institute and was a visiting fellow at the Universities of the Witwatersrand, Western Cape and Zimbabwe as well as the South African Human Science Research Council. As a policy research consultant, he has worked for PeaceRep, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Nordic Africa Institute, and the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, whereby he has conducted studies on behalf of the United Nations Development Programme and European External Action Service amongst others.
