Faculty

Ambassador Dr. Kodzo Alabo is a  DIPLOMAT-IN-RESIDENCE at the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD) of the University of Ghana.

Email: kalabo@ug.edu.gh

Academic Qualifications

PhD; Kiev State University (KSU), Ukraine. MSc; Kiev State University (KSU), Ukraine. BA; University of Ghana. Post-graduate diplomas in Management and Public Administration (Greenhill, Accra, 1990) and International Relations (Nairobi, 1993).

Languages

Juliana Abena Appiah is a Research Fellow at the Legon Centre of International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), University of Ghana, Legon, where she teaches Africa in World Politics, Regionalism and Regional Integration and Research Methodology. Julie had a post – Doctoral Fellowship with the University Of Cape Town, South Africa in 2015 where she learnt to develop courses in International Affairs. She has also benefitted from various African Union trainings and workshops.

Email: jappiah@ug.edu.gh.

Prof. Daniel Dramani Kipo-Sunyehzi is an Associate Professor at the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), University of Ghana. He has his training in the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana and the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy. He was also trained in the Department of Public Administration and Organisation Theory, University of Bergen, Norway. 

Current Administrative Role/Position

Centre Examination Officer

Seminar Coordinator

Peace A. Medie is a Research Fellow in the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy at the University of Ghana and was a 2015-2017 Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow. Her research centers on the dynamics of violence, including gender-based violence, during and after conflicts and the steps that state and non-state actors take to address this violence.

Afua Yakohene is a Research Fellow and focus person for training at the Legon Centre of International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), University of Ghana, Legon, where she teaches Africa In World Politics, Gender and International Relations and Research Methodology. She was educated at the University of Ghana (BA and MPhil) and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Studi Universatari e di Perfezionamento, Pisa, Italy (Ph.D). Her research areas are Peacebuilding, Governance and Gender issues in Africa.

Dr. Linda Darkwa is an academic–practitioner whose career bridges teaching, research, and applied policy on peace, security, governance, and human rights in Africa. She holds a PhD in Human Rights in Political Science from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy, an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham, and an MA in International Affairs from the University of Ghana’s Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD). As a Senior Research Fellow at LECIAD, Dr.

Dr Coffie teaches International Relations Theories & International Institutions and International Political Development. Her work spans a continuum of forced migration, from conflict zones, through asylum, repatriation and transnational studies. Dr. Coffie’s research has been supported by African Peacebuilding Network of the Social Science Research Council, and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Email: acoffie@ug.edu.gh

Academic Qualifications