Angela Muvumba Sellström is a Senior Researcher, Conflict and Security, at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Uppsala, Sweden and affiliated to Uppsala University’s Department of Peace and Conflict Research (DPCR). She has contributed to policy research in Africa and internationally for two decades. She has conducted field research primarily in Burundi, South Africa and Uganda and is a published scholarly author of research on the African Union (AU), preventing wartime sexual violence and HIV/AIDS as a security threat.

She is one of the 250 scholars that authored the report Rethinking Society for the 21st Century, of the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Life and Peace Institute (LPI) and on the Advisory Council of the Geneva-based non-governmental organization, Fight for Humanity.

At the Nordic Africa Institute, Muvumba Sellström leads research on the United Nations (UN) Security Council, the role of non-permanent members and how African and Nordic states influence outcomes in favor of women, peace and security and build peace in Africa.

Current research projects

• Principal researcher in the project, “Shattering Glass: How Elected Members of the UN Security Council Fight for Women, Peace and Security” (2021- ), Nordic Africa Institute, funded by the Swedish Research Council.
• Researcher in the project, “The Urban Dilemma: Urbanization and Ethno-communal Conflict” (2019-),principal researcher, Emma Elversson, Uppsala University, Department of Peace and Conflict Research (DPCR), funded by the Swedish Research Council.
• Principal researcher in the project “Disciplining Fighters: Understanding Armed Political Actors’ Control of Sexual Violence”, Uppsala University, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, funded by the Swedish Research Council (2016 – 2018).