Brigadier General Dan Kuwali
Brigadier General (Professor) Dan Kuwali serves in the Malawi Defence Force as Chief of Policy, Strategy, and Plans. He is the Pioneer Commandant of the National Defence College-Malawi and former Judge Advocate General and Chief of Legal Services of the Malawi Defence Force. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the United States Army War College.
As an academic, he is an Extraordinary Professor of International Law at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Visiting Scholar at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University, Sweden where he obtained his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in International Law.
He is also Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Adjunct Professor and Founding Executive Director, Centre of Strategic Studies, Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST); Immediate Past President of the Governing Council of the African Military Law Forum (AMLF) and its founding member; and Executive Member of the African Bar Association (AfBA). He is a former Senior Researcher, Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town; and former Senior Research Fellow, Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), Human Sciences Research Council.
Professor Kuwali has published extensively on a range of topics including: Handbook on Law and Conflict Transformation (Routledge, 2026); Corruption Proofing in Africa: A Systems Thinking Approach (Routledge, 2024); The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainable Peace and Security in Africa (2022); Forceful Intervention for the Protection of Human Rights in Africa (Oxford Bibliographies, 2020); By All Means Necessary: Protecting Civilians and Preventing Atrocities in Africa (2017); and Africa and the Responsibility to Protect: Article 4(h) of the African Union (2016); and Responsibility to Protect: Implementation of Article 4(h) Intervention (Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2011). His forthcoming volume, Handbook on Law and Conflict Transformation in Africa (Routledge), will be published next year. He has also authored scores of peer-reviewed monographs, book chapters, scholarly articles, and policy essays.