Ogenga Otunnu is Associate Professor at DePaul University, USA, as well as the founding Director of the Graduate Program in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at DePaul and co-founder of the Center for Forced Migration Studies at Northwestern University, USA. He has lectured at the summer program on refugees and forced migration at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, Canada, for fifteen years and has trained human rights organizations and NGOs working with displaced population in every region of the globe. He is a consultant for the UNHCR, other international and regional organizations and governments. He has published extensively on genocide, political violence, refugee and forced migration, nationalism, African philosophies, crisis of legitimacy, the African state, the African Renaissance, and human rights.