Sub-Sahara Africa
The Conflict Research Group (CRG) has extensive experience researching political violence and conflict in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Most of CRG Africa research relates to the dynamics of conflict and violence, public authority and governance, in particular of natural resources and security, and processes of urbanization. Prominent research themes include: the social embedding of rebel groups and state security forces, urban security, refugee mobility, artisanal and small-scale mining, land conflicts and governance, and external interventions in the domains of peacebuilding and stabilization.
CRGs approach is characterized by extensive and rigorous field research, including amidst ongoing conflict, and extensive collaboration with researchers and research institutes in the region.
People
- Emmanuel Akampurira
- Ayehu Bacha
- Marte Beldé
- Karen Büscher
- Jeroen Cuvelier
- Maarten Hendriks
- Hans Heungoup
- Julian Hopwood
- Sam Kniknie
- Julian Kuttig
- Siyum Adugna Mamo
- Esther Marijnen
- Josaphat Musamba
- Faith Ogeto
- Jolien Tegenbos
- Michel Thill
- Augustin Tshongo
- Tomas Van Acker
- Bram Verelst
- Koen Vlassenroot
- Christoph Vogel
- Sara Weschler
Current Projects
- The politics of time at the ASM-LSM interface in southeastern D.R. of Congo (contact: Jeroen Cuvelier)
- The politics of hidden urbanisation in D.R. Congo (contact: Karen B¨üscher)
- Changing urban residency (contact: Karen B¨üscher)
- The dynamics of urbanisation, development and ethnic contestation in peri-urban Ethiopia (contact: Ayehu Bacha)
- Conflict Minerals Inc (contact: Christoph Vogel)
- On the pursuit of Islamic Statehood (contact: Marte Beldé)
- Rebels in space (contact: Christoph Vogel)
- Pro Paix (contact: Koen Vlassenroot)
- Polisi Siku Kwa Siku (contact: Michel Thill)
- Humanitarian urbanism: the urban effects of protracted humanitarian intervention in Northern Uganda (contact: Karen Büscher)
- Analyzing conflict mobilities from Uganda’s Nakivale Refugee Settlement (contact: Jolien Tegenbos)
- The politics of return (contact: Koen Vlassenroot)
- The urban outcome of conflict mobilities in Kivu, DRC (contact: Karen Büscher)
- Mining-induced displacement and belonging in Lualaba, DRC (contact: Jeroen Cuvelier)
Past Projects
- Governance4Development (G4D) (contact: Thomas Vervisch)
- Sites of memory in North Uganda (contact: David Mwambari)
- The role of rural elites in governing C¨ôte d'Ivoire's ASM sector (contact: Steven Van Bockstael)
- Natural Resources, Conflict and Armed Mobilization in Eastern DRC (contact: Judith Verweijen)
- Music saved them they say (contact: Lukas Pairon)
- The base and premises of administrative behavior on land ownership and use among women in Tanzania: the case of Kilosa district in Morogoro region
- Towards sustainable solutions for conflicts between local social actors and National Parks in Tanzania: Case study of Saadani National Park
- The Conundrum of Violence against Civilians in Eastern DRC (contact:Judith Verweijen)
- Community participation in slum improvement/upgrading projects in informal settlements in Nairobi
- Accommodation of Justice for Displaced in DRC
- Decentralization and pastoral women's participation in local governance: A study of Kondoa local authority in Tanzania
- MICROCON - A Micro Level Analysis of Violent Conflict
- MICROCON Project 28: The political economy of entitlement to resources in rural Tanzania – an institutional perspective
- Failed states or failed paradigms? Political order in non-state societies: West-, Central-Africa and the Horn
- The role and position of civil society in processes of decentralization in comparative research in Burkina Faso, Uganda, Cambodja and Equador
- The circulation and transformation of knowledge, discourses and practices in the global network of international development actors: The case of water
- Humanitarian interventions and the participation of the military in complex political emergencies