Editor
Martin R. Rupiya
Dr Martin R. Rupiya, Executive Director of the African Public Policy and Research Institute (APPRI), is a Research Fellow at the Institute for African Renaissance Studies and Programme Facilitator of Management of Democratic Elections in Africa (MDEA) at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is also a visiting fellow at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at the University of Addis Ababa. Before establishing APPRI, Lieutenant-Colonel (retired) Rupiya had been the Director of Research: Africa at Cranfield University, United Kingdom; Senior Researcher and MilAIDS Project Manager at the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, South Africa; Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa; and Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Defence Studies at the University of Zimbabwe. His recent publications include Zimbabwe’s Military: Examining its Veto Power in the Transition to Democracy, 2008-2013 (Ed.) (APPRI, 2013) and “South Africa’s Security Intervention in Africa: Libya, Cote d’Ivoire and Zimbabwe” in State of the Nation 2012-2013 (HSRC, 2012).