Dismas Nkunda
Africa Coordinator, International Refugee Program
Joined the Lawyers Committee in 2001

As Africa Coordinator of the International Refugee Program, Dismas Nkunda is responsible for designing, coordinating and implementing advocacy strategies to enhance refugee protection in Africa.

Before joining the Lawyers Committee, Dismas worked as Program Officer for Africa Humanitarian Action, a regional African NGO that provides relief to displaced populations in many African countries.

An award winning journalist, Dismas worked as reporter for seven years. He was a lead reporter on conflicts in the Great Lakes region, ranging from the 1994 Rwanda conflict to the consequent refugee flows into Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and the complex role of security and military in the region. He worked for both The Monitor and The Crusader newspapers in Uganda.

Dismas graduated with an M.A. in Humanitarian Assistance from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (2001). He also holds a B.A. in Mass Communication (1992) from Makerere University, Uganda and a certificate in the study of refugees and forced migration, University of Dar Es Salaam, Faculty of Law, Tanzania (2000).