Dr. Brian Chaggu is a Research Consultant at the Imara Leadership Initiative and a scholar of conflict and peace studies, postcolonialism, diplomacy, regional integration, democracy, and African foreign policy, with a focus on Tanzania. He holds a PhD in International Relations (with distinction) from Maria Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He received the Intergenerational Justice Prize (2024) from the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations for his paper “Towards a Long-term Peace Approach: A phenomenological analysis of contemporary and emerging conflicts." His recent publication includes “Coltan, Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle of Control in the Democratic Republic of Congo” in The Resource Nexus: Competition and Cooperation in a Resource-Constrained World, edited by Katarzyna Sypień and Krzysztof Stefan. Kraków: AT Wydawnictwo, 2025. He is an alumnus of the Young African Leaders Initiative (Cohort 37) (2020).