Don John O. Omale PhD is an UNODC Expert on Restorative Justice; a British Chevening Scholar of Criminology; and Professor of Criminology at the Federal University Wukari Taraba State, Nigeria. He holds BSc Psychology (University of Nigeria, Nsukka), MSc Criminology (University of Leicester, UK) and PhD Criminology with specialism in Restorative Justice & Victimology at the Centre for Community and Criminal Justice, De-Montfort University Leicester, England, UK. He is an alumnus of the Rotary Foundation International “Group Study Exchange Programme” to California, District 5230 USA (2002).; an Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Delegate to the Model United NationsCongress in New York, USA (2003) funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London. He voluntarily disengaged from the Nigerian Prisons Service as Assistant Controller of Prisons (ACP), and has directed Research and Training at the Prisons Staff College Kaduna, and the Nigerian Defence Academy Kaduna respectively. He is internationally published, and has presented academic papers in Restorative Justice, Counter Violent Extremism and Victimology at international conferences in the UK, USA, Canada, The Hague; Bangkok, Valletta-Malta, South Africa, Mozambique, Addis Ababa, Morocco, Cairo, Egypt and Dakar, Senegal.
He is an International Advisory Board member to the Restorative Justice Initiative Midland, UK, the
Community of Restorative Researchers, UK and Restorative Justice International, USA respectively. He is
also the “Africa Book Review Correspondent” to the International Journal of Restorative Justice at the
Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium. He is a member of the World Society of Victimology and Fellow of the
Institute of Criminology and Penology, Lagos, Nigeria. He is the author of a bestseller book titled
‘Restorative Justice and Victimology: Euro-Africa Perspectives’ published in The Hague, Netherlands by
Wolf Legal Publishers.