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Dr Onduku has worked as a University Researcher on intercultural human rights focusing on selected documents on international and comparative law at the St Thomas University School of Law, Miami, USA. He has also been engaged in collaborative research projects such as the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) funded project on “Public Policy, Oil and Environmental Conflicts in the Niger Delta” (July – Sept. 2001); and the MacArthur Foundation-funded project on “Public Policy and Communal Violence in Nigeria” (June 1999 – March 2001).

Dr Onduku served on the editorial board of the Human Security Perspectives Journal of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Graz, Austria; the Peace, Conflict and Development Journal of the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK; the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review of the St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, Florida. He was an Article Reviewer for: Reinvention: A Journal of Undergraduate Research, The University of Warwick and Oxford Brookes University, UK (2008); and Children, Youth and Environments Journal, of the University of Colorado, College of Architecture and Planning, Boulder, USA (2007).

Dr Onduku has participated in various global research endeavours and made presentations in several United Nations related forums. Some of these include:

• “Corporate Environmental Policies and Sustainable Livelihood: Quo Vadis Nigeria’s Delta”, at the First United Nations Global Compact Academic Conference at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, September 18, 2004.
• “Human Security or State Security: Issues and Challenges in Nigeria’s Delta”, at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations Systems (ACUNS) in Geneva, Switzerland, July 1, 2004.
• “Building Peace and Human Security in the Niger Delta: An Emerging Dilemma”, at the European Training and Research Centre on Human Rights and Democracy, Graz, Austria, Sept. 1 – 10, 2003.
• “Statism, Corporatism, Governance: Quo Vadis?” Presentation at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Programme on “Globalization, Anti-globalizations and IGO-Civil Society Partnerships in a Multi-ethnic World,” July 24, 2003.
• “Nigeria’s Oil Conflict: The Environment and Human Rights.” Presentation at the UNESCO Conference on Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding Human Rights and a Culture of Peace” at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, June 18, 2003.
• “Environmental and Ethnic Conflicts in the Niger Delta”, at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Programme on Intercultural Citizenship, July 24, 2002.

Dr. Onduku is currently engaged in organisational research and transformational leadership for not-for-profit and public institutions. He holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies and Postgraduate Diploma in Research Methods from the University of Bradford, UK. In addition, he holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from the St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, USA; an Advanced Postgraduate Certificate in Peace and Conflict Transformation from the European Peace University in Stadtschlaining, Austria; and postgraduate degrees in International Relations (MSc) and Public Administration (MPA) from the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. He has served as part of the Bradford District Care Trust Spiritual Care Steering Group for the National Health Service (NHS) and currently serves as an Ecumenical Officer of the Churches Together in England; a member of the Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) of the Bradford Metropolitan District; and as a School Governor in two local schools in the North of England where he resides with his wife Andrea Onduku and three children.