Professor of African Security, Coventry University (UK)
Bruce Baker is Professor of African Security at the Applied Research Centre for Human Security, Coventry University, UK and Director of the African Studies Centre there. His current research focus is informal and formal policing in post-conflict African states. His publications include: Taking the Law into Their Own Hands: Lawless Law Enforcers in Africa (Ashgate, 2002) and Escape from Domination in Africa: political disengagement and its consequences (James Currey, 2000). He has conducted fieldwork in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Rwanda, Uganda, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde, Seychelles, Liberia and southern Sudan. His published articles cover African democratisation, governance, policing, security sector reform, popular justice and informal justice.