Ismael J. Muvingi, lLB, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Conflict Resolution Studies Tel. (204) 953 3854
i.muvingi@uwinnipeg.ca
Trained as a lawyer, Ismael Muvingi worked for the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Rhodesia at the height of the liberation war in then colonial Rhodesia. The work entailed going into war zones to record the stories of unarmed civilians caught in the crossfire between the combatants. After Zimbabwe’s independence, Muvingi practiced law both in the private and the public sectors for close to twenty years and also lectured in law on a part time basis at the University of Zimbabwe. Prior to coming to Menno Simons College, Muvingi worked for a U.S. based NGO as a campaign coordinator doing advocacy, lobbying and community mobilization on peacebuilding and HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Ismael Muvingi’s doctoral dissertation was on U.S. social movement efforts to create legislative instruments for actualizing human rights in spatially distanced spaces with a focus on extractive industries. His teaching and research areas of interest include human rights, conflict and peace, social movement organizing and mobilization, extractive industries, and Southern African politics. He is a registered legal practitioner of the High Court of Zimbabwe.
