Co-Organizer, Research Committee session on "Securitizing the State? the Challenges of Illiberal Democracies and Authoritarian Benevolence" XX ISA World Congress of Sociology (June 25-July 1, 2023), Melbourne, Australia.
Co-Organizer, Research Committee session on "The Military and Politics in 21st Century" XX ISA World Congress of Sociology (June 25-July 1, 2023), Melbourne, Australia.
Convenor, “Special Panel Session: Glocalized Security and Peacebuilding in the Global South” at the 2nd Symposium on “Beyond Great Powers: Multi-World Orders, Trans-Oceanic Sovereignty, and Hegemonic Civilization, Indonesian International Islamic University, Jakarta, June 14-15, 2023.
Co-Chair, workshop and lunch of ACPR Special issue on “The 2020 Juba Agreement for Peace in Sudan and Prospects for Peacebuilding in Darfur” hosted by Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, November 19, 2022.
Chair, Panel on “Knowledge Production and African Peace and Conflict Epistemology.” WARA Midwest Conference, July 26-27, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Chair, Session on “Lightning Talk: Global Governance and Regionalism”, 79th Annual Midwest Political Science Conference, April 7-10, 2022, Chicago.
Discussant, Session on “JSS: Civil Conflict: Understudied Actors and Emerging Perspectives”, 79th Annual Midwest Political Science Conference, April 7-10, 2022, Chicago.
Chair/Discussant, panel on “The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Empirical Studies on Religion, Conflict and Peace.” American Political Science Association, Annual meeting (Oct. 2021).
Convener, panel on Africa Rising: Utopic or real normative power? Rethinking Development: Development Research Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden (August 22-23, 2018).
Responder, panel on Safe Water, Sanitation and Early Childhood Malnutrition in East Africa: An Africana Feminist Analysis of the lives of Women and Children in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign (May 18, 2018).
Presider, panel on Teaching, School Culture, and the Sociological Imagination. The Association for Humanist Sociology, 42nd Annual Meeting, Havana, Cuba (November 1-5, 2017).
Presider, panel on Politics, Power and Resistance Movements. The Association for Humanist Sociology, 42nd Annual Meeting, Havana, Cuba (November 1-5, 2017).
Organizer, session onIrregular Wars: Conflict Studies I. RC01, International Sociological Association, Third Forum of Sociology, Vienna, Austria (July 10-14, 2016).
Chair, panel on Post-Conflict Institutional Designs in Africa. Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Commission. International Peace Research Association 26th Biannual Conference, Sierra Leone (November 27 to December 1, 2016).
Chair, session on Urbanism in the Global South. Globalization: The Urban Crisis and Economic Democracy. Global Studies Association annual conference, University of Toledo, Ohio (June 12-14, 2015).
Chair, session on The Place of Language in War-making and Peacebuilding in Africa. Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Indianapolis, November 2014.
Member, Carnegie African Diaspora Fellows Roundtable. Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Indianapolis, November 2014.
Chair, session on International Humanitarian Intervention and State-Building. Research Committee on Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution, RC01, XVIII International Sociological Association, World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan (13-19 July 2014).
Chair, session on New Humanitarianism and International State-Building. Working Group on Historical and Comparative Sociology, WG02, XVIII International Sociological Association, World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, 13-19 July 2014.
Chair, “African Independence: Structural Challenges to Peace in African States.” Roundtable sponsored by the West African Research Association at the 54th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 17-19, 2011.
Discussant, Panel on Humanitarian Action: Actors and Policies (2). Third Global International Studies Conference, organized by the World International Studies Committee, Porto, Portugal, August 17-20, 2011.
Chair, Session on The State in National and International Struggles. Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Chicago (November, 2008).