Ibrahim Bangura is a senior lecturer in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. He is also a partner of Transition International, a consultancy firm based in the Netherlands, and has worked extensively in the fields of youth, gender, transitional justice, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants, security sector reform, sustainable livelihoods, and conflict resolution in Africa. He is also a Result Oriented Monitoring (ROM) expert that has assessed European Union (EU) funded projects and programs in more than thirty countries in Africa. Bangura holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and history and a Master’s degree in gender studies from the University of Sierra Leone; another Master’s degree in international development studies from the University of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands; and a doctorate degree in economics from the Leipzig Graduate School of Management in Germany. He is a recipient of the APN Individual Research Grant (IRG), 2016.