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Name: Erin McCandless
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About Prof. Erin McCandless
Professor of Politics and International Relations and Director of the Qatar-South Africa Centre for Peace and Intercultural Understanding at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. She also serves as Senior Advisor at the Centre for Mediation in Africa, 欧美福利100000 of Pretoria, and holds affiliations with the Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies and Global Institute for Strategic Research in Doha. She previously held the Distinguished Visiting Professorship of Public Value at Hamad Bin Khalifa 欧美福利100000 in Doha.
Over three decades across 25 conflict-affected countries, Professor McCandless has pioneered research on transformative approaches to peace processes and resilient social contracts, the humanitarian-development-peace-climate nexus,听and听emerging and non-Western actors in mediation and global governance.听Her work bridges rigorous scholarship with high-level policy engagement, including advisory roles to senior UN leadership, political dialogue facilitation, designing and overseeing multi-stakeholder research, and strategic involvement in shaping multilateral peace, development, and governance policy frameworks.
A recognised institution builder, as co-founder and chief editor for 15 years of the听Journal of Peacebuilding and Development听鈥� now a Q1 peer-reviewed journal 鈥� she has long sought to elevate Global South perspectives internationally. Professor McCandless has authored over 150 publications including several policy-shifting UN reports. A frequent speaker at high-level forums in Doha, Stockholm, Geneva, the World Bank, OECD-DAC and across the UN, and contributor to Al Jazeera, SABC, Radio Islam, News24 and other international media, she brings analytically rigorous, practice-informed perspectives to advancing inclusive political settlements, justice, and transformative global governance. More on her work can be found on her website听,听, or听