Jan Pospisil is Associate Professor at the Centre for Peace and Security at Coventry University. He is a co-investigator of the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep), a FCDO-funded research program located at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on peace processes, political settlements, humanitarian negotiations, and resilience. Jan’s most recent monograph on South Sudanese conflictscapes has been published with transcript in 2021. His previous monograph, “Peace in Political Unsettlement: Beyond Solving Conflict”, has been published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.

Christopher Oringa is Lecturer at the Institute of Peace, Development and Security Studies in the University of Juba. He received his BA in Social Science from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in 2006, his MA in Peace and Conflict Studies from Makerere University in 2012, and his PhD from the University of Juba in 2024. Since joining the University of Juba in 2013, his research has focused on peace and development, IDPs and refugees, and education in fragile contexts. He also studies how people, organisations and societies can better resolve their conflicts and innovate in response to complex problems. His work is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on social science, environmental studies, social psychology, philosophy and complex system theory.