Sekou-Koureissy Conde
ACA Director
Sekou Koureissy Conde, President of the American Council on Africa (ACA),
is Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International
and Public Affairs (SIPA). The American Council on Africa promotes the
inclusion of traditional African methods and peaceful mechanisms of conflict
resolution, post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction in the international
peace and development agenda. Dr. Conde was the former Security Minister
of the Republic of Guinea, when he was involved in several challenging
peacemaking efforts and post-conflict negotiations within the States of
Western Africa. He holds a PhD in both Political Sociology and Criminal
Sociology. In 2005 Dr. Conde acted as Academic Director of the International
Symposium for Conflict Mediation and Conflict Resolution (IIMCR) in Cape
Town/South Africa. From 2002-2004 he was Visiting Scholar at New York
University, at the African-American Institute and the Africana Studies
Program. He also has served as Associate Researcher of International Penal
Law at the renowned European Max-Planck-Institute for Penal Law in Freiburg/Germany.
Sekou Koureissy Conde has lived and worked in Africa and Europe before
coming to the United States of America. He brings to Columbia’s
Center for International Conflict Resolution/SIPA a deeply personal understanding
of African realities and outstanding academic insights into the dynamic
of local conflicts in an international context.