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Ashindorbe kelvin holds a bachelors and a master’s degree in political science and a master’s and PhD degrees in Peace and Conflicts Studies from the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ibadan. He also earned a post graduate diploma in Federalism, Decentralization and Conflict Resolution from the Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg Switzerland. His research, focuses on Political Parties, multilevel government/state organisation, governance/development issues, security studies, conflict transformation and democracy; areas where he has published book chapters and articles in peer reviewed journals. He is a member of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice, a Fellow of French Institute for Research in Africa IFRA-Nigeria and member of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators. He previously taught at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Chrisland University Abeokuta, where he served as the coordinator of the department and the General
Studies Unit of the University.
Ph.D., University of Ibadan, Ibadan – 2011-2016
PGD., University of Fribourg Switzerland 2014
M.A., University of Ibadan, Ibadan – 2008-2010
M.Sc., University of Ibadan- 2002-2003
B.Sc., University of Ibadan, Ibadan – 1995-2000
Research in Progress
course cordinator
Nigerian Political Science Association: 2018- Date
Society for Peace Studies and Practice: 2008- Date
French Institute for Research in Africa, (IFRA) Nigeria 2008- Date
Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC): 2016- Date
1. Kelvin Ashindorbe and Saheed Babajide Owonikoko. (2023) International Conference
with the theme “Exploring the Key Issues in the Nigerian 2023 General Elections”
Organised by Glotan Research Services, South Africa in Conjunction with College of
Arts Management and Social Science, Chrisland University Abeokuta. 29th March to 31
March 2023. Paper Read: Violence and Voter Turnout: Trends of Political Participation
in Nigeria’s General Elections 1999- 2023
2. Kelvin Ashindorbe (2022) International Conference on Legislature and Democratic
Consolidation in Africa in the 21st Century. Organised by Glotan Research Services,
Lagos, in Collaboration with Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of
Lagos. 28th April to 30th April 202. Paper Read: Executive-Legislative Relations and
Democratisation Process in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic: Reflections on the Politics of
Removal of State Governors from Office and Legislative Governance.
3. Kelvin Ashindorbe (2021) Workshop on Communication and Leadership Skills for
Enhancing Campus Security, A training workshop organised for personnel of the security
department federal university of Agriculture, Abeokuta by the office of the Vice
Chancellor in collaboration with the Department of Communication and General Studies
28th June to 2nd July 2021. Paper Read: Conflicts and Conflict Analysis.
4. Kelvin Ashindorbe (2021) Humanising the Sciences Conference (HUSCON) A
conference Organised by the Department of Communication and General Studies,
Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, 10th -11th August 2021. Paper Read:
Communication, Leadership and Partisan Polarisation: An Interrogation of Selected
Utterances of President Buhari.
5. Kelvin Ashindorbe (2019) 15th ISTEAMS Conference with the theme Promoting
Technology Transfer and Innovation through Inter-tertiary Collaboration and Intellectual
Competition. Chrisland University Abeokuta Ogun State 16th -18th April, 2019. Paper
Read: Liberation Technology: Interrogating the Value of Selected Digitally Enabled
Government Intervention Programmes in Nigeria.
6. Kelvin Ashindorbe (2019) International Conference with the theme: Nigeria’s New
Security Threats: Patterns, Implications and Management. Organised by the Department
for Peace, Security and Humanitarian Studies, University of Ibadan. 11-13 October,
2019. Paper Read: Between Greed and Grievance: Interrogating the Implication of the
Resurgence of Violence in Nigeria’s Niger-Delta Region.
7. Kelvin Ashindorbe (2018) Conference on Leadership and Peace in Nigeria. Organized
by the Institute of African Studies University of Ibadan in collaboration with The
Centre for Human Security, Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library. 9th June to 11th
June 2018. Paper Read: Governance in Nigeria: Between Intelligence and Politics”.
(a) Projects/Dissertations/Thesis
i. Ashindorbe, Kelvin. A., (2016) Intra-party Conflicts in the Peoples’ Democratic Party in
Southwestern Nigeria and their Implications for Democratic Consolidation, 2003-2015.
(Unpublished PhD thesis) submitted at the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
ii. Ashindorbe, Kelvin., (2010). Intra-Party Conflict and the Challenge of Democratic
Governance in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. Unpublished MA Dissertation, submitted to
the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ibadan.
iii. Ashindorbe, Kelvin., (2003). ‘Two-Two-Turn Election thesis’ and Democratic
Consolidation; The Nigerian Experience (1979-1983) and 1999- 2003) Unpublished MSc
Dissertation submitted to the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan.
iv Ashindorbe Kelvin., (2000). Party Formation and the Prospect of Democratic Stability in
Nigeria: P.D.P. as Case Study. Unpublished BSc Long Essay, submitted at the
Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan
(b) Articles in Learned Journals
1. Ashindorbe, K. A. Temitope Olaifa & Kingsley Udegbunam (2022) Vaccine
Nationalism and the Quest for Indigenous COVID-19 Vaccine in Nigeria. African
Identities. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14725843.2022.2034597
Index in Scopus
2. Ashindorbe, K A; Afaktapa Fortune & Saheed Owonikoko “ (2021) “Civilian Joint
Task Force and Nigeria’s Counter-Terrorism Operation: A Critique of the Community
Based Approach to Insecurity”. African Security 14 (3): 286-305.Routledge
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19392206.2021.1998977 Index in Scopus
3. Ashindorbe, K.A. Nathaniel Danjibo (2019). “Intra-elite Factionalism and the Quest for
Sustainable Platforms in Nigeria”. Asian and African Studies 54 (5) 746–762 SAGE
Journals https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909619831033 index in Scopus.
4. Ashindorbe, K.A. (2019). “Contending Issues in the Practice of Democracy and
Federalism in Nigeria”. Journal of Management and Administration, Sabinet South
Africa. 1 (I). Sabinet South African Journals https://journals.co.za/content/journal/jomad
5. Ashindorbe, K.A. (2018). Electoral Violence and the Challenge of Democratic
Consolidation in Nigeria. India Quarterly,74 (1) 1–14. SAGE Journals
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0974928417749639 Index in Scopus
6. Nathaniel Danjibo & Ashindorbe K.A. (2018). “The pattern of political party formation
and the search for national integration in Nigeria”. Brazilian Journal of African Studies
3 (5) 85-100. Brazilian Centre for African Studies, Federal University of Brazil
https://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/rbea/article/view/81932
7. Ashindorbe, K.A. and Nathaniel Danjibo (2022) Two Decades of Democracy in
Nigeria: Between Consolidation and Regression. Journal of African Election. Published
by Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) Vo 21 N0. 2 168-183.
African Elections DOI: 10.20940/JAE/2022/v21i2a8
8. Ashindorbe, K.A. and Chinaguh, E.C (2021) Communication, Leadership and Partisan
Polarisation: An Interrogation of some Selected Utterances of President Buhari. Journal
of Humanities, Social Sciences and Creative Arts. 16(1): 52-64 Publisher: Federal
University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. ISSN:231-747X Availabe online at
https://journal.funaab.edu.ng/index.php/JHSSCA/article/view/2192/1726
9 Nnabuihe, E.O. and Ashindorbe, K.A. and Odobo, S.O. (2023) Politics of Security Sector
Reform: Violence and the Emergence of Regional Security Outfits in Nigeria. African
Studies Quarterly | Vol 21, Issue 4| 49-64. Published by the Center for African Studies,
University of Florida https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/files/V21i4a4.pdf Index in Scopus
d. Chapters in Books.
10. Ashindorbe, K.A. (2022). Zero-Sum Politics: Ruling Parties and Political Opposition in
Nigeria. In Anonymous Power: Parties, Interest Groups and Politics of Decision Making
in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic (Essays in Honour of Elochukwu Amucheazi)
Okechukwu Ibeanu, Israel 'Kelue Okoye, Ikenna Mike Alumona, Ernest Toochi Aniche
(ed.) 211–227. Palgrave Macmillan https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-
16-6058-0_10.
11. Ashindorbe, K.A. Kingsley Udegbunam (2021). Developmental Regionalism and
Democratisation in Africa. In Regionalism, Security and Development in Africa Ernest
Toochi Aniche, Ikenna Mike Alumona, Innocent Moyo (ed.) 225-240. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025856.
12. Ashindorbe, K.A. Seun Bamidele (2019). Insurgency and Population Displacement in
North-East Nigeria: An Assessment of State Management Strategies. In Readings in
Peace and Conflict: Essay in honour of Professor Isaac Olawale Albert. Elias Suleiman
Bogoro, Matt Meyer, Nathaniel Danjibo (ed.) 432-441. Publication of the Society for
Peace Studies and Practice University of Ibadan.
13. Ashindorbe, K.A. (2019). The Context of Inconclusive Elections and the Implications
for Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria. In Perspectives on the 2019 General Elections:
Issues and Challenges of Democratic Consolidation. Gani Joses Yoroms & Israel
Okwudiri Igwe (ed.) 81-98. Elibrada Centre for Alternative Development Studies.
14. Owoniko Babajide, Ashindorbe, Kelvin (2019). “Nigerian Prisons Service and Internal
Security Management in Nigeria” In Internal Security Management in Nigeria-
Perspectives, Challenges and Lessons. Oshita O. Oshita, Ikenna Mike Alumona,
Freedom Chukwudi Onuoha (ed.) 501-522. Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8215-4_22.
15. Ashindorbe, K.A. Owonikoko Babajide (2017) .Religion, Radicalisation and Terrorism
in Nigeria. In Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism War in Nigeria. Pius Adejoh & Waziri
Adisa (ed.). 175-199. A publication of the Department of Sociology University of Lagos
16. Ashindorbe, K.A and Augustine Ejovi (2023) The Organisational Arrangement of
Federal Systems. In Federalism: Theory and Comparative Perspectives. Ikenna Mike
Alumona (ed) 35-46. John Archers Publishers, Ibadan.
17. Ashindorbe, K.A and Ita, V. (2023) Federalism in Switzerland. In Federalism: Theory
and Comparative Perspectives. Ikenna Mike Alumona (ed) 35-46. John Archers
Publishers, Ibadan.
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