André du Pisani (born 15 January 1949) is a

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political scientist, author of several books, articles and journals, he has written several conference papers for SADC, the Namibian government and several ministries, he is a professor at the University of Namibia Department of Political Science. Du Pisani has been a professor at the university since 1998.

Education

The Windhoek native earned his bachelor's degree from

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in 1971 and an honours in politics from Stellenbosch in 1972. He later earned a master's degree in politics from Stellenbosch in 1975. From 1975 to 1976, du Pisani was a research student at the

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. In 1988, he earned his Ph.D. in politics from the

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. From 1995–96, he did post-doctoral research through the Global Security Fellows Initiative at the

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in the

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.André du Pisani
at the Namibia Institute for Democracy, Windhoek, 2007

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