Agola Auma-Osolo

Professor Agola Auma-Osolo is currently an associate professor of international relations, diplomacy, and international law; chairman of Post-Graduate Studies Programme, School of Development and Strategic Studies (SDSS), Maseno University; and president of the International Centre for Peace and Conflict Reconciliation Initiative for Africa (ICPCRIA), a nongovernmental organization based in Nairobi under whose jurisdiction he published an in-depth clinical diagnosis and prescription of the 1994 Rwanda Civil War titled The Rwanda Catastrophe: Its Actual Root-Causes and Remedy to Pre-Empt a Similar Situation in Rwanda (May 1995) in English, French, and Spanish, and disseminated it to all heads of state and international organizations. He earned his PhD in political science from Howard University (1979); his Hague Certificate in International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law based at the International Court of Justice (1969); and his MA and BA degrees in international relations from University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill (1969 and 1968, respectively). He is a Fellow of the American National Science Foundation (1969) and an Institute of International Education (IIE) scholar (1964). His publications include Cause-Effects of Modern African Nationalism on the World Market (1983), which earned a nomination for the Herskovists Award (1985) organized by African Studies Association in North America; “Rationality and Foreign Policy Process” the Yearbook of World Affairs 1977, which earned him a PhD studies fellowship from the American Society on Foreign Policy (1978); Conflict Vaccination and Its Application to Conflict Menace (soon coming out from the press); etc. He has also served as a diplomat in a position of chief administrative secretary cum technical assistance coordinator (CAS/TAC) with Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA), Addis Ababa (1988–1992); as director/administrator, the Kenya National Academy of Sciences (KNAS) Nairobi (1985–88); and as vice president of the Cosmopolitan Student Club at UNC, where, in l969, he played a significant role through the UNC Office of the Provost to the ending of the Vietnam War and its scourge to the American universities’ infrastructure.