Dr Dimpho Deleglise

Dr Dimpho Deleglise

Senior Researcher
Research Department:
Glocal Junctions
Research Group African Intervention Politics

Contact

E-Mail: deleglise @prif .org

CV

since September 2022Senior Researcher at PRIF
April – August 2022Associate Fellow at PRIF
since November 2020Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute for Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS)
2021Lead Expert for Southern Africa
 ACCORD–APRM–GIZ | Consultancy on the Impact of COVID19 on the drivers of conflicts and structural vulnerabilities in Africa
2020–2021Part-time lecturer, University of French Guyane
2019–2020Research Consultant & Editor, Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung, Mozambique
2017–2018Research Fellow, The Southern Africa Trust, South Africa
2010–2017Researcher & Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
2016Consultant
 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Botswana
 International IDEA
 European Centre for Electoral Support
 The African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)
2007–2010Researcher, Institute for Global Dialogue

Expertise

Dr Dimpho Deleglise is working on the following issues:

  • African Union, African regional organizations (SADC, COMESA, EAC, IGAD)
  • African Peace and Security Architecture
  • Conflict analysis, peacebuilding and democratization in Africa
  • External actors and the autonomy and agency of regional organisations

Publications

Potentially Vital AU Meeting on Tigray Leaves Communities of Interest in the Dark | 2024

Deleglise, Dimpho (2024): Potentially Vital AU Meeting on Tigray Leaves Communities of Interest in the Dark, PRIF BLOG, 15.3.2024.

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African Union: The African political integration process and its impact on EU-AU relations in the field of foreign and security policy | 2023

Mattheis, Frank / Deleglise, Dimpho / Staeger, Ueli (2023): African Union: The African political integration process and its impact on EU-AU relations in the field of foreign and security policy, Brussels: Directorate-General for External Policies, European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/(...).

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Conflict mediation in Southern Africa and the evolution of institutionalised mediation support | 2023

Deleglise, Dimpho (2023): Conflict mediation in Southern Africa and the evolution of institutionalised mediation support, in: Prah, Andrea/Ngubane, Senzwesihle (eds), Mediating peace in Africa: a study on the role of mediation support units, 39–61, https://www.accord.org.za(...).

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Trends in SADC Mediation and Long-Term Conflict Transformation | 2021

Deleglise, Dimpho (2021): Trends in SADC Mediation and Long-Term Conflict Transformation, in: McNamee, Terence/Muyangwa, Monde (eds), The State of Peacebuilding in Africa. Lessons Learned for Policymakers and Practitioners, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 215–233, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46636-7_13.

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Assessing AU mediation envoys: The case of South Sudan | 2017

Deleglise, Dimpho (2017): Assessing AU mediation envoys: The case of South Sudan, in: Institute for Security Studies (ISS), East Africa Report, 10, www.issafrica.org/(...).

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Southern Africa: Regional perspectives for the White Paper on Peacebuilding | 2015

Deleglise, Dimpho (2015): Southern Africa: Regional perspectives for the White Paper on Peacebuilding, in: Geneva Peace Building Platform, White Paper Series, 4, www.gpplatform.ch/(...).

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Modeling Cooperative Peacekeeping | 2014

Brosig, Malte / Deleglise, Dimpho (2014): Modeling Cooperative Peacekeeping. Exchange Theory and the African Peace and Security Regime, in: Journal of International Peacekeeping, 18, 45–68, DOI: 10.1163/18754112-1802002.

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The Political Economy of Intrastate Conflicts | 2013

Deleglise, Dimpho (2013): The Political Economy of Intrastate Conflicts, in: Currie-Alder, Bruce/Kanbur, Ravi/Malone, David M./Medhora, Rohinton (eds), International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 345–361, DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199671656.003.0021.

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Southern Voices in the Northern Policy Debate: Perspectives on Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in Africa | 2012

Zounmenou, David / Deleglise, Dimpho / Nganje, Fritz (2012): Southern Voices in the Northern Policy Debate: Perspectives on Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in Africa, in: Wilson Centre Africa Program, www.wilsoncenter.org/(...).

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Regionalism in Africa: Development Crises and the Growing Influence of Emerging Powers | 2012

Deleglise, Dimpho / Qobo, Mzukisi (2012): Regionalism in Africa: Development Crises and the Growing Influence of Emerging Powers, in: Fioramonti, Lorenzo (ed.), Regions and Crises, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 145–162, DOI: 10.1057/9781137028327_9.

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When Elections become a curse: Redressing Electoral Violence in Africa | 2010

Deleglise, Dimpho (2010): When Elections become a curse: Redressing Electoral Violence in Africa, in: EISA Policy Brief, 1, www.africaportal.org/(...).

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The European Union’s Electoral Assistance: Perceptions of African Democracy Building | 2010

Deleglise, Dimpho (2010): The European Union’s Electoral Assistance: Perceptions of African Democracy Building, Stockholm: International IDEA, www.idea.int/(...).

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Guinea Bissau as an emerging narco state in West Africa | 2008

Deleglise, Dimpho (2008): Guinea Bissau as an emerging narco state in West Africa. Implications for security and development, in: Global Insight, 83, www.igd.org.za/(...).

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Other professional activities

since 2022Senior Research Associate, Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation (IPATC, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
since 2021Associate Researcher, Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
since 2020Member of Advisory Board, Strategic Review of Southern Africa