Member of the North-South Commission for the Dutch Labour Partly (PVDA)

Associate member for a Theme Group: Conflict, Control and Reconciliation, at the African Study Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands.

Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The Ethiopian International Institute for Peace and Development (EIIPD) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Research Centre for International Political Economy (RECIPE), University of Amsterdam, until 1998