Associate Professor
Dr. Terry Savage is an NSU faculty member in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies within the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences. Growing up amid war in Zimbabwe and then transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, Terry Savage was confronted early with the brutal impacts of structural violence, cultures of violence, and of war. He took a stand as a conscientious objector against the apartheid military, before studying social sciences at the University of Cape Town; conflict mediation at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, thanks to a Fulbright Fellowship; and his PhD in political sociology at the KU Leuven.
Dr Savage worked in South Africa’s vibrant non-profit sector for the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, setting up projects in the Congo, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Zimbabwe, piloting and managing a fellowship for the International Center for Transitional Justice, and publishing widely on human rights, reconciliation and transition in Africa. He has served with the United Nations as Chief of Human Rights Reporting in Burundi and as Reparations Policy Adviser in Nepal, where he used elicitive methods to produce a national reparations policy that incorporated victims’ needs and priorities in their own words.
He taught at Stellenbosch University for many years before joining NSU, while consulting widely. Clients have included various UN agencies, the International Commission of Jurists, Avocats sans frontières, Berghof Foundation, and the German international development agency, GIZ, in their engagement with Ukraine as well as in northern Iraq, with women returning from abduction and enslavement under Da’esh / Islamic State.
Complementing his work with Nova Southeastern University, Dr Savage enjoys a continuing research affiliation with the University of Leuven. He has published three books on the challenges of reconciliation after large scale, violent conflict in African settings, writes in English and French, and enjoys publishing in diverse genres – from scholarly publications to op-eds and multimedia presentations. He is wrapping up a fourth book, developing a victimological approach to uncovering truth, hitherto hidden and subverted, about gross violations of human rights. Dr Savage is on two United Nations experts’ rosters – the Governance and Peacebuilding Roster for Africa, and the UNDP-DPA Peace and Development Roster.
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