Virtual Indigo Talk with Dr. Darren Kew
Join us virtually on Thursday, June 5, at 7 pm ET, for our 2025 Indigo Talk featuring Dr. Darren Kew, Dean of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego.
Dr. Kew studies the relationship between conflict resolution methods – particularly interfaith and inter-ethnic peacebuilding – and democratic development in Africa, Northern Ireland, and the United States. Much of his work focuses on the role of civil society groups in this development. He has also been a consultant on peace and democracy initiatives to the United Nations, USAID, US Institute of Peace, the US State Department, and to a number of NGOs, including the Carter Center. He monitored the last seven Nigerian elections and the 2007 elections in Sierra Leone, and in 2023-24 co-facilitated a working group of religious leaders focusing on religion and peacebuilding in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Professor Kew was asked by the British and American governments to join an influential international commission requested by the Nigerian government in 2010, which contributed to a major overhaul of its election system. He is author of numerous works on Nigerian politics and conflict resolution, including the book Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, and Democracy in Nigeria (Syracuse UP, 2016), and his articles have appeared in International Negotiation, the Journal of Democracy, and Current History, among others.
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