Savo Heleta

I am a researcher, analyst, educator and author with more than ten years' experience in higher education, academic research, curriculum development, teaching, research supervision and internationalisation. I also have more than eight years' experience in project planning, development and implementation, capacity building and leadership development, youth leadership development, peace-building and work in the NGO sector.

Over the past two decades, I have lived and worked on four continents. I currently live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

I am an internationalisation specialist in the Department of International Education and Partnerships at the Durban University of Technology in South Africa. Prior to this role, I worked as a researcher, lecturer and internationalisation practitioner at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa (2013-2021). I have also worked on post-war capacity building and leadership development in South Sudan (2009-2013) and post-war rebuilding and youth leadership development projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1998-2002).

My research interests range from decolonisation of knowledge; higher education internationalisation; conflict analysis and conflict transformation; climate change and conflict; post-war reconstruction and peace-building; development studies; sustainable development; climate justice; higher education in post-war settings; to social justice advocacy and activism.

Survivor of the Bosnian war, I'm the author of 'Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia' (AMACOM Books, 2008).

I hold a DPhil in Development Studies (2013) and MPhil in Conflict Transformation and Management (2009) from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and BA in History and Business Management (2006) from St. John's University, Minnesota, United States.

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