Dr. Prince Duah Agyei

Dr Agyei leads CAPS-WA’s research strategy. He advances the local-local turn in Peace Research and IR—centering emancipatory local agency in peacebuilding. Substantive interests include visual peace, migration and integration, and the intersections of peace, (in)security, and democracy across Africa and Europe. He also serves as Senior Academic Mentor and heads CAPS-WA’s State–Society Relations desk. He currently leads CAPS-WA’s edited volume, Peace and Security in West Africa: Indigeneity, Politics and the Local-Local Turn (with Dr Muhammad Dan Suleiman).

His work appears in Critical Studies on Security, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, and African Journal of Legal Studies. His recent study, “A Tale of Two Maps and Two Truths,” offers new theoretical and methodological insights into the Nkonya–Alavanyo conflict with practical pathways for transformation.

Dr Agyei is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), Tampere University. His project, Forms of Resistance & Practices of Hope, examines West African migrants in Finland, linking intentions, lived experience, and the covert strategies through which hope and resistance shape integration.

He holds a BA in Theatre Arts and Political Science (University of Ghana) and both an MSSc and a PhD in Peace and Conflict Research (Tampere University).