Qualifications:
D.Phil (Stellenbosch)

Lecturing fields:
Comparative politics, conflict studies, African politics, the state and democracy in South Africa

Fields of specialization:
Conflict resolution, politics of divided societies, post-modern strategy, minority strategies for divided societies, state-building in divided societies

Academic history:
Pierre du Toit completed his D.Phil in Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch. He is currently a professor in the Department. He has produced numerous articles, monographs and books in the fields of conflict resolution, democracy and African politics.

During the period 1992 - 1993, he received a Peace Fellowship from the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington D.C. The results of this study were published in the book, State- Building and Democracy in Southern Africa - Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa (United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington D.C., 1995).

His current research includes participation in a comparative study of the consolidation and / or breakdown of peace processes in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Israel/Palestine, the Basque region of Spain and Sri Lanka. This was a multi-member project, under the auspices of the International Programme on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity (INCORE) and was completed at the end of 1999. The first publication to emerge from this study, an edited book in which the five cases are examined, entitled The Management of Peace Processes was published by Macmillan in 2000.

His latest book is South Africa's Brittle Peace - The Problem of Post-Settlement Violence, published by Palgrave in 2001, also results from this paper.