Dr Darlington Tshuma

Biography

Dr Tshuma was appointed to work with the World Food Programme on secondment as an Advisor to the Under Secretary General (USG) and in the Office of the Special Advisor on Africa. As a PhD in Peacebuilding, his work seeks to leverage homegrown school feeding programmes in Africa as macro-economic development tools to support long term development. Hunger leads to conflict, but a sustainably fed community has a stronger chance of living peaceably. In the work he is doing, Dr Tshuma is seeking to scale up homegrown school feeding initiatives across the continent through supporting access to energy, water, markets and supply chains. They are also exploring how communities can empower themselves through food systems transformation and community- driven research towards greater local food sovereignty.

He has written, published and presented papers at international conferences and seminars on transitional justice, reconciliation and peacebuilding processes in Africa. He regularly consults for think tanks and policy institutes in Africa and Europe among them the European Union Institute for Security Studies, the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, the Life and Peace Institute, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, and the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. He is a 2021 Africa Policy Fellow of the School of Transnational Governance, at the European University Institute in Italy where his work focused on peace, conflict and security, climate change, democracy and human rights, gender and global governance.