Dr Michael Aeby

Honorary Research Affiliate, IDCPPA

Dr. Michael Aeby is an Honorary Research Affiliate at the IDCPPA. He earned his Bachelor at the University of Fribourg (Bachelor in Media Studies and History) and his Master at the University of Basel (History and Political Sociology), where in 2016 he completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Harries (African History) with a thesis on Zimbabwe’s Gruelling Transition: Interim Power-Sharing & Conflict Management in Southern Africa. A SNSF-postdoc.mobility scholarship took him to the Universities of Cape Town and Edinburgh.

Journal articles

  • Aeby, Michael. 2021. Building Peace among Monitors? The Monitoring and Implementation of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement, Journal of Southern African Studies, 47/4, 683-702. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2021.1875644

  • 2018. ‘Inside the Inclusive Government’, Interparty Dynamics in Zimbabwe’s Power-Sharing Executive, The Journal of Southern African Studies, 44/5, 855-877. doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2018.1497122

  • 2017. ‘Stability and Sovereignty at the Expense of Democracy? The SADC Mediation Mandate for Zimbabwe, 2007 – 13’, African Security, 10/3-4, pp 272-291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2017.1348116
  • 2016. ‘Making an Impact from the Margins? Civil Society Groups in Zimbabwe’s Interim Power-Sharing Process’, The Journal of Modern African Studies, 54/4, pp 703-28. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000616

Policy research reports

  • 2022. How African Organisations Support Peace Agreement Implementation: AU, IGAD and SADC Mediation, Guarantees and Monitoring Practices in Kenya, South Sudan and Zimbabwe, PeaceRep: The Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform, Edinburgh. Download
  • 2021. Civil Society Participation in Peace-Making and Mediation Support in the APSA: Insights on the AU, ECOWAS and SADC. Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Cape Town. Download
  • 2019. SADC – The Southern Arrested Development Community? Enduring Challenges to Peace and Security in Southern Africa. Policy Dialogue, N° 14, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-7106-854-5. Download

Policy briefs

  • 2022. How African Organisations Envision Peacemaking: AU, IGAD and SADC Policies and Structures for African Solutions, PeaceRep Global Transitions Sercies, PeaceRep: The Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh. Download
  • 2019. Peace & Security Challenges in Southern Africa: Governance Deficits and Lacklustre Regional Conflict Management, Policy Note N° 4:18, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala. Download
  • 2018. Women in South Africa’s Democratic Transition (1990-1998). Women in Peace & Transition Processes. Geneva: Inclusive Peace & Transition Initiative, Graduate Institute. Download

Book chapters

  • 2022. ‘Navigating Channels for Civil Society Participation in Conflict Prevention and Peace-Making in the African Peace and Security Architecture’. In Civil Society and Peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Anthropocene, edited by Jean Chrysostome K. Kiyala and Geoff Thomas Harris, 34:465–98. The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95179-5_19.
  • with Jamie Pring. 2021. The Buzz about Inclusion in Peace Research, Policy and Practice in IGAD and SADC, in: U. Engel, L. Gelot, K.  Döring, J. Herpolsheimer (eds.), APSA Inside-Out: Researching the Inner Life of the African Peace & Security Architecture, Leiden: Brill Publishers, pp 186-208.