Peace and conflict researcher Dr Constansia Mumma-Martinon from Kenya is involved in reconciliation work in her home country.

Due to her exceptionally good performance in her teacher training programme, Constansia Mumma-Martinon was accepted onto the Master's degree course in International Relations and Diplomacy at the University of Nairobi . In her Master's thesis, she focussed on water, land and environmental conflicts.

Following her studies, she successfully applied for a KAAD scholarship in 1999 to write her doctoral thesis on "The Role of Diplomacy: An Alternative Approach to Managing International Environmental Conflicts over Shared Water Resources" at the University of Leipzig. Immediately after successfully completing her dissertation, Constansia Mumma-Martinon returned to her home country, where she now works as a lecturer at the University of Nairobi and supervises many master's and doctoral students. She also trained UN blue helmets and AU peacekeepers at a peacebuilding training centre in Nairobi. On behalf of the UN, she launched research projects on ethnicity and conflicts in other African countries. She also prepares consultation processes for the Kenyan Truth and Reconciliation Commission and wrote a recommendation paper for the Kenyan government.

Constansia Mumma-Martinon sees her primary task as teaching her students what peace, truth and reconciliation mean. She mentioned several times that she would not have been able to pursue her professional and personal path without the scholarship. Her path from teacher at primary and secondary schools to a multi-talented peace researcher with the aforementioned roles, tasks and activities is due not least to her extraordinary ability to abstract and generalise as well as her sharp mind, which is readily attracted by new horizons of knowledge.