Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies

Victor Ogbonnaya Okorie is Professor of Development. He is a distinguished academic, researcher, and leader with a broad range of international and local experiences in leadership, teaching, mentoring, and academic administration. He holds a joint PhD in Development and Anthropology of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He teaches at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. His research and administrative leadership traverse the continents of Africa, Europe and America. He was a postdoctoral fellow at prestigious institutions such as the University of the Free State and North West University in South Africa and laureate of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal. Victor has been a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany; the International Social Science Council, France, the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes, Brown University, USA; and at the International Research Exchange Board, Washington DC, USA as well as an international visiting scholar at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. He was a and is an alumnus of the African Peacebuilding Network, a program of the Social Science Research Council, USA. He was a Carnegie fellow of the Carnegie Corporation of New York USA . He has research interests on slow violence, mass atrocities, human security, and cultural-based triage system in humanitarian space. He also addresses research issues in areas such as rural development, gender, agriculture, and the political economy of food and water security in developing countries, particularly in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. His research has been supported by many grant funding institutions and agencies such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; the United Nations African Institute of Economic Development and Planning, Dakar, Senegal, World Council of Social Sciences, France & Global Change System for Analysis, Research &Training, USA; Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) New York, USA; Brown International Advance Research Institute Alumnus, Brown University, USA ; Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal; National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences and the South African BRICS Think Tank, South Africa ;Tertiary Education Training Fund, Nigeria; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Medical Research Council, the UK; Center for Advance Research Training in Africa(CARTA): and a partnership of the National Research Foundation South Africa, Sweden International Development Agency Sweden, SGCI, IDRC, DFID, UKRI, &FRQ. He also reviews grants for some funding agencies across the globe and has over one hundred publications.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH

1. Okorie VO (2022). Unmaking Malnutrition-Related Attritional Deaths In Covid-19 Regime: Does Digital Extension And Youth Nexus Count In Africa? Global J Arts Social Sci 4(1):162 DOI: https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/1453 Okorie, V. O., & Okorie, N. (2022). Youths, social media and cultural production of poetics of violence: Harbingers of Violent Elections in Nigeria? Journal of Arts and Humanities, 11(05). 24-32.

2. Okorie V.O. (2022) Researchers’ Dilemmas in Getting Stakeholders to Prevent Mass Atrocities. Special Report, USA Holocaust Memorial Museum pp 13 

3. Amusan, L., & Okorie, V. O. (2022). Impacts of COVID-19 Regime on Labor Within Food Systems: Whither BRICS Now and Beyond?. Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, 14(1), 32-42.

4. Okorie, V. O., Okorie, N., & Amusan, L. (2021). Youths' violent resistance of necropolitical landscape of COVID-19 in Nigeria's vanishing foodscapes and waterscapes. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 4(1), 100193.