Abosede Omowumi Babatunde is a faculty member at the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Dr. Babatunde is a former member of the Governing Council of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). She has held several distinguished academic awards such as the African Humanities Program (AHP) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship, and the Research Fellowship in Peace Studies (2013) at the Consortium for Peace Studies, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is a 2017/2018 Fellow of the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich, Germany. She is a 2017 Fellow of the Brown International Advanced Research Institute (BIARI), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. In 2019, she was a guest researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Uppsala, Sweden. Her work has been supported by research grants from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); the African Peacebuilding Network of the Social Science Research Council (APN/SSRC) Individual Research Grant (2016) and the Collaborative Working Group Grant (2018-2020), and the American Political Science Association Centennial Research Grant (2018). Email: bose_babatunde@yahoo.co.uk.