Biography

Abosede Omowumi Babatunde is a Professor at the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. She has been awarded several distinguished academic fellowships including the African Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010), American Council of Learned Societies and the Research Fellowship in Peace Studies (2013) at the Consortium for Peace Studies, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was a 2017 and 2023 Fellow of the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society at LMU, Munich, Germany, a 2017 BIARI Fellow, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, and a Guest Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden in 2019. She is also a 2023-24 Afox Visiting fellow at the African Studies Centre, and the Merton College, University of Oxford. She co-authored “Managing Violent Religious Extremism in Fragile States” (Routledge; recommended by CHOICE and awarded the 2023 IPSS Tana High Level Forum Book Launch).