Dr. Brian Chaggu

Biography

Dr. Brian Chaggu is a Tanzanian scholar specializing in conflict and peace studies, postcolonialism, diplomacy, regional integration, democracy, and African foreign policy. He holds a PhD in International Relations (with distinction) from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He currently serves as Senior Research Fellow at the MEA Institute for Strategic Studies and as a Research Consultant at the Imara Leadership Initiative. In addition, he works as a writer and editor for Great Lakes Crisis and serves as a peer reviewer for the African Security Review journal. 
 
Dr. Chaggu is the recipient of the 2024 Intergenerational Justice Prize for his co – authored paper titled “Towards a Long-term Peace Approach: A Phenomenological Analysis of Contemporary and Emerging Conflicts.” His recent scholarly contributions include the chapter “Coltan, Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Control in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” published in The Resource Nexus: Competition and Cooperation in a Resource-Constrained World (2025), as well as the book review “Obstacles to Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Challenges through a Sudanese Lens,” published on Kujenga Amani, a digital forum of the African Peace Building on Development Dynamics (APDD). He is also an alumnus of the Young African Leaders Initiative (Cohort 37, 2020).