Hyden Munene is a research fellow and lecturer in the Dag Hammarskjöld Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at the Copperbelt University, and an associate research fellow in the International Studies Group (ISG) at the University of the Free State. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in the ISG between 2019 and 2021, and an alumnus of the African Humanities Program of the American Council of Learned Societies funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. As an interdisciplinary scholar specialised in human rights, governance, and peacebuilding, as well as social, political and economic history of Africa and selected parts of world, he has published a book and papers with leading academic and commercial publishers such as Cambridge, Wisconsin, Rowman and Littlefield International.