Helen Nambalirwa Nkabal, PhD
Dr. Nkabala is a senior lecturer in the Department of Religion and Peace Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Makerere University, where she is also a member of the Makerere University Council. She is experienced in conflict resolution and management, relationship-building and management, networking and interpersonal skills relevant for interacting with government institutions and other development partners, NGOs, and the private sector in multicultural settings. In addition to her work at Makerere, she has trained personnel at Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and the United Nations Mission in South Sudan in conflict transformation, social cohesion; and with Uganda police in peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and development. She has served as principal investigator on grants from U.S. Institute of Peace, UN Women, and MasterCard Foundation, among others. More recently, she was appointed inaugural director of the First Rotary Peace Center in Africa, hosted at Makerere University.
Courses Taught
Developing and Maintaining Collaborative Relationships
Select Publications
Nkabala, N.H. April 2021. Kony as Moses. New York. Peter Lang Inc
Mbabazi, V., Naiga, R. and Nkabala, N.H. March 2020. Towards Gendered Peacebuilding Processes for Sustainable Peace. Vol 24, Issue 2, 2020. Sage Journals
Nkabala, N.H. April 2017. The Use of Violent Biblical Texts by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda. Vol 34, Issue 2, 2017. Sage Journals
Nkabala, N.H. January 2014. Gender perspectives in the Lord’s Resistance Army in relation to the Old Testament. vol.27, n.3. Old Testament essays. Pretoria
Nkabala, N.H. January 2013. A gender-sensitive ethical reading of Old Testament texts: The role of African women as characters in the text and exponents of the text. Volume: N.S.26, Issue: 2, Pages: 384-400. Old Testament essays
Education
- PhD, University of Stavanger/Makerere University
- Master of Theology, University of Bergen
- MA, Peace and Reconciliations Studies, Coventry University
- BA, Makerere University
- PGDE/ME in Educational Technologies
