Christopher Otieno Omolo is a PhD student at the Institute for Political Science at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. His research focuses on Regional Integration and Conflict Transformation in Africa. He has previously taught at the Institute for Regional Integration and Development (IRID) at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), in Nairobi, Kenya. He also served with the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) at the Kakuma Refugee Camp, in Kenya. He holds a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt, Germany, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree in Philosophy from the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a KAAD scholarship.