Tim MurithiTim Murithi is a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for International Cooperation and Security (CICS) at the University of Bradford. Prior to that he was a Senior Researcher in the Conflict Prevention Programme at the Institute for Security Studis Office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From 2005 to 2007 he was Senior Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. From 1999 to 2005 he was a Programme Officer at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in Geneva, Switzerland. He has worked as a consultant to the African Union, the UN Development Programme in Sierra Leone, and the UK's Department for International Development, the International Peace Academy, UN Affiliated University for Peace, the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and the InterAfrica Group. He is the author of The African Union: Pan-Africanism, Peacebuilding and Development (2005), Towards a Union Government for Africa: Challenges and Opportunities (2008) and co-editor of The African Union and its Institutions (2008). Read More Read Less