Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Pretoria, South Africa. Prior to assuming his post at ISS, Dr Dzinesa served as: Senior Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town; Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Africa’s International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand;  Visiting Scholar at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo and as a Research and Publications Officer at the Centre for Defence Studies at the University of Zimbabwe. He has recently completed co-editing books on Region Building in Southern Africa and Peacebuilding in Africa and has researched and published widely on peace, security and development issues in Africa.