Piers Pigou Senior Consultant, Southern Africa South Africa Please submit all media inquiries to ppigou@crisisgroup.org or call +32 (0) 2 536 00 71 Piers Pigou is Crisis Group’s Senior Consultant for Southern Africa. Formerly he was Crisis Group’s Southern Africa Project Director, overseeing the organisation’s research and advocacy activities in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and Angola. Political violence Security sector reform Transitional justice issues (including, access to information, reparations, investigations and prosecutions). Before joining Crisis Group, he served as the Program Manager at the Foundation for Human Rights, as a Senior Associate for Southern Africa at the International Center for Transitional Justice, as the Director of the South African History Archive and as a Research and Advocacy Coordinator at the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa/Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. Piers also worked for the Truth Commissions in both South Africa and East Timor. He holds a M.A. in Southern African Studies from York University and a B.A. (Hons) in Politics from Portsmouth Polytechnic. English (native) French (basic) In The News 8 Apr 2021 The question is whether [the insurgency in northern Mozambique] can be nipped in the bud at this juncture without spreading further. AFP Piers Pigou Senior Consultant, Southern Africa 19 Sep 2020 Zanu PF is hunkered down in its traditional deny, avoid, blame, attack posture. The Zimbabwe Independent Piers Pigou Senior Consultant, Southern Africa 25 Jul 2020 Prominent Zimbabwean journalist Chin'ono has been extremely active in exposing corruption, but with that exposure has come a very hard-hitting narrative about the failure... Al Jazeera Piers Pigou Senior Consultant, Southern Africa 8 Mar 2020 South Africa is not saying anything new per se, but appears to have recognised an exclusive reliance on quiet diplomacy had failed to nudge Harare in the right direction. The Daily News Piers Pigou Senior Consultant, Southern Africa 29 Jan 2019 [Zimbabwe's] reform agenda is being opposed by hardline elements within Zanu-PF and the state. Bloomberg Piers Pigou Senior Consultant, Southern Africa 21 Nov 2018 Ordinary Zimbabweans are paying for the excesses of a venal predatory elite not being held to account. Washington Post Piers Pigou Senior Consultant, Southern Africa Latest Updates Commentary / Europe & Central Asia 04 March 2022 The Ukraine War: A Global Crisis? Also available in Español Q&A / Africa 18 March 2021 Understanding the New U.S. Terrorism Designations in Africa Q&A / Africa 18 January 2019 Revolt and Repression in Zimbabwe Q&A / Africa 06 September 2018 Land Reform in South Africa: Fact and Fiction Commentary / Africa 21 August 2018 After Elections, Zimbabwe Government’s Legitimacy in Limbo Q&A / Africa 27 July 2018 Tensions Rise Ahead of Zimbabwe’s Elections Load more