Eva Willems
Dr. Eva Willems is a historian and researcher in the area of (post)conflict studies. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History and the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University, where she conducts research on civilian participation in armed conflict and the ethical and epistemological challenges related to the use of archives of armed groups. Her doctoral research on armed conflict and transitional justice process in Peru was granted awards by the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies and by the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences in 2021. Eva’s research has been published in, among others, Memory Studies, Human Rights Quarterly and Crime, Law and Social Change.
Records of Resistance: Militia Governance in the Valley of the Apurímac river during the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict (1980-2000)
This project investigates civilian participation in wartime violence and reflects on the methodological and ethical challenges of using archives of non-state armed actors.
Current research projects:
Records of Resistance: Militia Governance in the Valley of the Apurímac river during the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict (1980-2000)
This project investigates civilian participation in wartime violence and reflects on the methodological and ethical challenges of using archives of non-state armed actors.