Thomson M. Muthama

Thomson Muthama is a seasoned expert in peacebuilding, conflict management, research, leadership, and strategic management. He currently serves as the Head of Research and Senior Programmes Specialist at the Security Research and Information Centre (SRIC), where he leads the design, management, and implementation of varied programs and projects. Thomson manages several initiatives, including UNDP-K funded projects, Tetra Tech-supported efforts aimed at reducing insecurity and violent extremism in Kenya’s Northeastern and Coastal regions (REINVENT), and Security Sector Reform (SSR) activities in South Sudan under the Just Future Alliance (JFA) Project, supported by CORDAID through the African Security Sector Network (ASSN). He has extensive experience working with, and consulting for, numerous regional and national organizations as a trainer, program and project developer, facilitator, rapporteur, researcher, and data analyst. His collaborators include the Regional Centre for Small Arms (RECSA), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), National Steering Committee on Peacebuilding and Conflict Management (NSC-Conflict Analysis Group), Saferworld, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Kenya National Focal Point on Small Arms and Light Weapons (KNFP), and Act Change Transform (ACT!), among others.

• Governance and diplomacy for peace and security (GDPS), International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC)
• Human Rights Course, International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC)
• Results-based management (RBM), United Nations Development Programme – Kenya (UNDP-K)
• Community-based reintegration, United Nations Development Programme – Kenya (UNDP-K)

Applied Research and Policy Analysis, Peacebuilding and Conflict Management, leadership and strategic management, Training, capacity building and knowledge sharing, Human rights governance and development, regional and international collaboration.

• Founding board member, International Centre for Peace, Human Rights, and Development in Africa (IPHRD-A)
• Steering Committee member, Kenya Action Network on Small Arms and Light Weapons (KANSA)
• Member of the National Steering Committee on Peacebuilding and Conflict Management (NSC – Conflict Analysis Group)
• Member, National Focal Point on Small Arms and Light Weapons (KNFP)
• Board member, public secondary school

• A study report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peace and security in Kenya, the case of the Nairobi metropolitan area, published in 2021
• Natural resources governance and management of emerging conflicts around extractive industries in Kenya: a case of Turkana, Kwale, and Kitui counties published in 2018
• The status of peace and the economic impact of conflicts in Kenya: a case of Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu counties, published in 2018
• A study of crime in urban slums in Kenya: the case of Kibera, Bondeni, Manyatta, and Mishomoroni slums Published in 2014