Brigadier General Dan Kuwali serves in the Malawi Defence Force as Commandant of the National Defence College. He is a former Chief of Legal Services and Judge Advocate General. After reading for his Bachelor of Laws degree with honours at the University of Malawi, he studied for a Master’s degree in International Law with distinction at the University of Lund in Sweden where he also earned his doctoral degree in the same field, “eximia cum laude approbatur.” He is a superior Graduate of the United States (U.S.) Army War College where he was a Carlisle Scholar. He’s a graduate of the Judge Advocate General School (TJAGSA) and the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS); and the prestigious Center for America and International Law (CAIL) in Plano, Texas. Brig Gen Kuwali is the Chairperson of the Malawi National International Humanitarian Committee. As an academic, he is a Visiting Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University. He is also an Extraordinary Professor of International Law at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Adjunct Professor and Founding Executive Director, Centre of Strategic Studies, Malawi University of Science and Technology; Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Lilongwe, Malawi; Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Immediate Past President of the Governing Council of the African Military Law Forum (AMLF) and its founding member; and Executive Member of the African Bar Association (AfBA). He has served as Division Legal Advisor, United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) among other think tanks.
His publications include: The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainable Peace and Security in Africa(2022); Forceful Intervention for Protection of Human Rights in Africa – International Law – Oxford Bibliographies (2020; By All Means Necessary: Protecting Civilians and Preventing Atrocities in Africa (2017); Africa and the Responsibility to Protect: Article 4(h) of the African Union (2016); and scores of other peer-reviewed monographs, book chapters, and articles and blogs. This year, he published a book entitled Corruption Proofing in Africa: A Systems Thinking Approach with Routledge.
Prof Kuwali’s work and research interests span a spectrum of issues ranging from governance, global security, policy, and strategy to International Law and International Relations including International Criminal Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
BG Kuwali’s military honours include two United Nations peacekeeping medals, command medal, efficient service medal, among other accolades.