Dr. Sokfa John is a scholar-practitioner in mediation, conflict transformation and digital peacebuilding based at the Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria. Sokfa received the 2025 Research Policy Fellowship (RPF) of the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC), African Peacebuilding and Development Dynamics Program (APDD). He was also an African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Indivierual Research Fellow (2023). Dr. John is also a Rotary Peace Fellow and a National Geographic Explorer. His current research focuses on the nexus between localization and digitalization in peacebuilding in Africa, cultural technologies of peacemaking, and ethnoreligious conflicts. His practice includes mediation, negotiation and peacebuilding advisory in commercial, sociopolitical, community, environmental, and AI/digital technologies related disputes and deals.