Balozi Dr. Liberata Rutageruka Mulamula, mhadhiri chuo kikuu cha George Washington University
| Ambassador Liberata Mulamula |
Ambassador Mulamula is the Associate Director for the Institute for African Studies, and a career diplomat with 35 years of experience having served in various capacities at the Tanzania Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Diplomatic missions in New York (Permanent Mission to the UN), Canada and the USA. She also served as the first Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region of Africa for Peace, Stability and Development with headquarters in Bujumbura, Burundi. In this position, she oversaw 11 countries from 2006-2011.
Before retirement in April 2016, her other senior posts included the executive ministerial post of Permanent Secretary of the Tanzania Ministry of Foreign Affairs (May to December 2015). She provided managerial and administrative leadership to the Ministry’s staff and Tanzania Diplomatic Envoys abroad. She was also the Tanzania Ambassador to the United States of America and Mexico (July 2013 to May 2015), having served as Special Advisor to His Excellency President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of Tanzania on all Diplomatic matters (2012-2013).
While at the State House, she successfully coordinated the visits of President Xi Jiping of China and President Barack Obama to Tanzania in July 2013, as well as the visits of other heads of state and high officials. She attended all cabinet meetings and prepared policy briefs for the President, and aided the implementation of cabinet decisions in areas of international partnerships in order to achieve the country’s development goals.
During her tenure in Washington as Tanzania Ambassador to the USA, Ambassador Mulamula participated actively in the preparations for the first U.S.-Africa Summit on the partnership for economic growth. This summit also focused on strengthening mutual cooperation between the countries in areas of investment and trade. She also assisted the implementation of various programs that are funded by U.S. development agencies and institutions including the Millennium Challenge Compact, the Power Africa Initiative, the Feed the Future Program, the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement, the U.S President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the President’s Malaria Initiative, maternal and child health care initiatives, among numerous others.
She has attended the successive AU Summits, UN General Assembly sessions in New York and other multilateral gatherings, as well as various regional meetings and initiatives on peace and sustainable development. Ambassador Mulamula is a graduate of St. John’s University in New York where she obtained an M.A. in Government and Politics, as well as a postgraduate diploma in International Law. She received her B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Dar-es Salaam University of Tanzania. She was adjunct lecturer on the “Art of Negotiations” at the Tanzania-Mozambique Center of Diplomatic Studies.
In addition to her role as Associate Director of IAfS, she is also a Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs. Her primary area of interest is Women and Leadership in Africa. Moreover, she is a member of the Board of Overseers, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University (New Jersey, USA); Board Member of the Bukoba Development Foundation (BUDEFO); Member of the Advisory Board of Madaktari Africa; Budapest Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities; Genocide Prevention Advisory Network (GPANet); Member of the Women Mediation Network of the Great Lakes Region; Patron of Miss Tanzania-USA; and more.
Ambassador Mulamula is a Recipient of the Order of the United Republic of Tanzania 2015 Award for Distinguished Public Service. She is married to Mr. George Mulamula and they have two children, Tanya and Alvin. Source : Ambassador Liberata Mulamula |
Title:Associate Director and Visiting ScholarPhone:202-751-8672Email:
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Institute for African Studies
Areas of Expertise
Diplomacy; Women and Leadership in Africa; Conflict Resolution and Management; Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocity; and Political Transitions in Africa.
A Visiting Scholar and Acting Director of the Institute for African Studies at the George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs. Area of interest is Women Empowerment and Leadership in Africa. A graduate of St. Johns’ University, USA. Distinguished career diplomat. Served as Tanzania Ambassador to the United States, among others, and promoted the relations between the two countries to greater heights. Also served as Senior Diplomatic Advisor to the former President of Tanzania, H.E. Jakaya Kikwete. Served also as the First Executive Secretary of the Regional Inter-Governmental Organization for Peace, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes Region covering 11 post- conflict countries of Africa and others. A Recipient of the Order of the United Republic of Tanzania 2015 Award for Distinguished Public Service.
Current Research
Women, Peace and Security: Meaningful Participation?
Education
M.A Government and Politics, St John's University, New York
Publications
1) Mulamula, Liberata, “DRC and Its Neighbours: Policy Options for the Great Lakes Region and the International Community” in Mwesigwa, Baregu(ed.) 2011. Understanding Obstacles to Peace: Actors, Interests, and Strategies in Africa’s Great Lakes Region. Fountain Publishers, (IDRC), Kampala, Uganda
2) “Genocide Prevention: Experience of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region(ICGLR)”. A paper presented at the Regional Forum on Genocide Prevention, Bern, Switzerland, 2011
3) -, ICGLR.2011. “Towards Eradicating Sexual and Gender Based Violence in the Great Lakes Region.” ICGLR Magazine, December 2011
4) –, in IDMC. 2008.“The Great Lakes Pact and the Rights of Displaced People: A Guide for Civil Society.” IDMC, Geneva, Switzerland
5) Mulamula, Liberata, (2019). "Preventing Mass Atrocities: Mobilizing Regional Responses, Experiences from the Great Lakes Region of Africa" In Harff, Barbara and Gurr, Ted Robert (Ed.),
Preventing Mass Atrocities: Policies and Practices. London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
Distinctions
Republic Award of Distinguished Service
Classes Taught
Women and Leadership in Africa; Multilateral and Conference Diplomacy in Global Politics
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