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Bashiru Salifu
he/him
Bashiru Salifu is a PhD Candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba, specializing in the intersection of Indigenous rights, land justice, and climate resilience. His current doctoral project examines the Ogiek community’s struggle for ancestral land rights in Kenya.
Before beginning his doctoral studies, Bashiru completed graduate studies at The Arctic University of Norway in Peace and Conflict Transformation and Indigenous Studies. Previously, he conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Ethiopia, documenting how Borana pastoralists utilize customary Gadaa institutions and traditional ecological knowledge to navigate climate-induced displacement.
Alongside his doctoral research, Bashiru has worked as a lecturer in Indigenous Studies at The Arctic University of Norway’s Center for Sami Studies (SESAM). He is the Co-Founder and Program Coordinator of the Resolve Alliance for Peace Education and Development and has served as a competition judge for Ethics Bowl Canada through the Manitoba Association for Human Rights.
Publications/Papers
Salifu, B. (2020). Climate Change Impact and Traditional Coping Mechanisms of Borana Pastoralists in Southern Ethiopia: Building Adaptive Capacity and Resilience from an Indigenous People’s Perspective (Master’s thesis, The Arctic University of Norway).
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