Dr. George Katete is an academic and an expert on development cooperation and peace research who has over 20 years experience in advising development agencies and consulting for non-governmental organizations that are inspired to alleviate poverty at grass root levels. As an academic, he continues to lecture and supervise students at the University of Nairobi in the department of political science and public administration where he teaches international relations courses and supervise students undertaking their graduate projects and thesis within his areas of specialization. As a practitioner in fields of development cooperation and conflict resolution he has served as a consultant for the UNDP under the auspices of AU agenda 2063, particularly in writing expert reports on peace building, development and democratization process in the wake of celebration of fifty years of democratization and peace building in the continent. He contributed towards an expert research on the status and dimensions of peace and development in East Africa region – generating the Eastern Africa regional report under the facilitation of the AU in Addis-Ababa for the periods 2013 to early 2014. Dr. Katete has participated in numerous international and local conferences, where he presented theoretical and policy relevant papers that inspire knowledge and generate policy guidelines for progress. In various selected dates Dr. Katete conducted researches on the role of state and non-state actors in peace and development in the East and Horn of Africa nations (Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda) in peace processes in Sudan after the end of second civil war.