Nelson Alusala is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Governance Innovation (GovInn), University of Pretoria, South Africa. He also holds a PhD in political sciences from the University of Pretoria. He has also been serving as and for the United Nations (UN) Group of Experts on the DR Congo.

Emmaculate Asige Liaga is a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate Institute's Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) and an associate researcher at the Centre for African Studies, at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Martin R. Rupiya PhD, was an academic with the Institute for African Renaissance Studies (IARS), University of South Africa (UNISA) and Executive Director of The African Public Policy & Research Institute (APPRI) based in Pretoria.