Benjamin Adeniran Aluko is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Peace, Security and Humanitarian Studies, Faculty of Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He attended the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, where he obtained B. A. (Hons) in Philosophy, M. A. in Philosophy and M. A.& Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Studies. In 2012,he was at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington DC, US, for a training program in governance and security sector reform.In 2019, Aluko was at the Institute for Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, for a research on ‘party defections and democratic consolidation in Nigeria’. He is a fellow of both the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (US) and the DAAD (Germany). Though Aluko specializes in early warning systems and peacebuilding,his research interests include peacemaking and peacekeeping, conflict analysis and intervention, democracy and human rights. He co-edited a book titled: security sector and conflict management in Nigeria (2014) with I.O. Albert and O. O. Isola. Aluko’s ongoing research is titled: ‘politicising early warning signals and its implications on peacebuilding in Nigeria’. He has published in reputable local and international journals. Before his appointment as the Ag. Director of the TETFUND Centre of Excellence in Multidisciplinary Studies, he was the coordinator of both the Peace and Conflict Studies and Peacebuilding and Development Studies programs of the Department of Peace, Security and Humanitarian Studies. He is a member of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP) and the Institute for Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC).