DR. OLUWANIYI OLUWATOYIN
OLUWANIYI, OLUWATOYIN OLUWAREMILEKUN, PhD
E-mail: otoldo_olu@yahoo.com


PROFILE
Ms Oluwatoyin Oluwaremilekun Oluwaniyi, PhD, is currently a lecturer at the Policy and Strategic Studies programme of the Department of Policy and Strategic Studies, Covenant University, Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State. She obtained her Doctoral Degree from the Department of Political Science, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria and the title of her thesis is “The Phenomenon of Child Soldiers in Liberia and Sierra Leone”. She obtained her Masters Degree in International Relations from the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria and Bachelors Degree in Political Science from the University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Bornu State, Nigeria.

She teaches Conflict and Conflict Resolution, International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights, International Peacekeeping and Strategic Thought. She is an academic adviser to 100 Level Policy and Strategic Studies students.

She is a beneficiary of several grant awards, which include, Travel Grant from West African Research Centre (WARC), Senegal/West African Research Association (WARA), Philadelphia, U.S.A in 2000; Grant from CODESRIA in 2004; Grant from Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation in 2004 and Grant from Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE), Oxford in 2006.
She’s a member of CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal and African Association of Political Science (AAPS), South Africa

Her areas of research interests include: Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Africa (especially as it concerns women and children), Post-Conflict Reconstruction, International Humanitarian Law and Development issues.