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Masana Ndinga-Kanga

Research Programme Manager at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)

Masana is Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, where she is project manager for the African Comparative Transitional Justice and Innovations in Peacebuilding Studies. With a multi-disciplinary background in African Studies, politics, economics, international development and law, Masana has an MSc in Political Economy of Late Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has a B.Com. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Cape Town. Masana has worked at the Robert F Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights in Washington D.C., the Poverty and Inequality Initiative (UCT) and as the first Machel-Mandela Fellow at The Brenthurst Foundation in Johannesburg, where she has been involved in multi-country studies on economic development, international relations, innovations in development practices and conflict analysis. She is also a frequent blogger for Mail & Guardian’s Thought Leader and an alumnus of the South African Washington International Program and the David & Elaine Potter Fellowship. Masana is a Chevening Scholar from 2012–13, and is currently a fellow at the Leading Causes of Life Initiative.

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