Prof. Balingene Kahombo is a professor of public law and African International Relations at the Faculty of Law of the University of Goma (Democratic Republic of the Congo—DRC) and a guest researcher at the Institute for International Law, European Law, and Comparative Public Law of the Free University of Berlin (Germany). He has founded the REPERD project (Partnership Network for Education, Research, and Development/DR Congo) and is a member of the Center for Research and Studies on the Rule of Law in Africa (CREEDA), a former APN 2020-2022 Collaborative Working Group Fellow, and a consultant in the security and defense sector, justice, and democratic governance. E-mail: balingene82@gmail.com; balingenekahombo@unigom.ac.cd; balingene.kahombo@fu-berlin.de