Professor Oshita Oshita

Professor Oshita Oshita
Country: 
Nigeria
Parliament: 
National Assembly of Nigeria
Party: 
Peoples Democratic Party
Upcoming Election: 
2015
Other current affiliations: 

Director-General of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR)

Previous other affiliations: 
  • Director of Research and Policy Analysis - Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution
  • Member of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice
  • Member of Parliament 1992-1993
Regions of interest: 
Bio: 

Dr. Oshita O. Oshita is the Director-General of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Abuja, Nigeria. He belongs to many professional associations, including the British International Studies Association (BISA), the Network for African Peace-builders, Nigerian Philosophical Association, and he is 2nd Vice-President of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP), Nigeria.

His current research interests are in peace-building, the nexus of peace-security-conflict and development, resource conflicts, systems design for conflict prevention, conflict-sensitive planning and policy programming.

He has lectured in various universities in Nigeria and overseas. He is a professional trainer and enjoys training and facilitating workshops.

Dr. Oshita has been serving on the Federal House of Representatives of Nigeria from 1992 to 1993.