Angela Muvumba Sellström

Geographic expertise: Eastern, Southern and Central Africa (regional perspective); Burundi; South Africa; and Uganda

Topical expertise: The UN Security Council processes; the African Union and regional economic communities/mechanisms; peacekeeping; African militaries; armed actors and organizations; conflict-related sexual violence; women, peace and security

Languages: Swedish and English

Dr.  Angela  Muvumba  Sellström is  a  Senior  Researcher  at  the  Nordic Africa  Institute  (NAI), Uppsala, Sweden and has contributed to policy research in Africa, Sweden and internationally for over 20 years. 

Between 2000 and 2010, she specialized in Africa’s peace and security, including the African Union (AU) and civil society organizations, at policy research institutions in New York, Cape Town and Durban. Muvumba  Sellström has been Director of Uppsala University’s Department of Peace and Conflict Research’s International Training Programme in Dialogue and Mediation between 2018 and 2020, in cooperation with the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. At the university, she carried out multiyear research on conflict-related sexual violence, focusing on preventive approaches taken at the level of armed actors and organizations in Africa. She also taught on post-settlement  implications  of  amnesties;  active  listening  and  ethical  approaches  to  peacebuilding;  and designed and convened the Department’s post-graduate course on gender, war and peace. She is one of the 250 scholars that jointly authored the 2018 report Rethinking Society for the 21st Century, of the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP), contributing to the chapter on violence, on the topic of sexual and gender-based violence. 

At the Nordic Africa Institute, she leads research on the United Nations (UN) Security Council, focusing on its  elected  member  states  and  how  African  and  Nordic  governments  can  influence  outcomes  in  favor  of Africa’s Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda. 

Muvumba  Sellström  is  on  the  Advisory  Council  of  the  non-governmental  organization,  Fight  for Humanity; a member of the Board of Directors of the Life and Peace Institute (LPI); and a non-resident fellow of the International Peace Institute.