Richard Fosu is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. He obtained his PhD in International Relations from Monash University in 2023. His thesis examined the politics of inclusion in local peacebuilding in Uganda. Richard’s current research interests lie in inclusive approaches to peacebuilding, transitional justice, critical IR, decoloniality, politics of knowledge production and the African Union. He is currently working with a team of researchers at the Monash Global Peace and Security (GPS) on a project that investigates the causes and impacts of the marginalisation of unformed women with caring responsibilities in UN peace operations. As part of this project, he has gathered data through interviews, focus group discissions and participant observation with UN peacekeepers in South Sudan, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as with uniformed personnel in the United Kingdom.

Richard has also recently received a grant from the Australian Civil-Military centre (ACMA) to investigate gender inclusion and gender responsiveness in civil military collaboration and impacts on operational effectiveness in conflicts and crises responses. Richard has previously worked in the Ghanaian public service and has also consulted for range of organisations on inclusive policymaking. He is currently completing a book manuscript: The Constitutive Politics of the Local: Conflict, Local Orders and Peacebuilding in Uganda (Cambridge University Press).