Populism has become a buzzword in popular and media discourses in recent years. Academic debates on the concept of populism—what it is and is not, where to look for it, and its normative prescription—have been highly contested.

This project wants to understand how rebel groups and societies deal with violent death as a part of civil strife.

In writings produced by the Naxalite Maoist movement in India, martyrdom features extensively.

Globally violent conflict is becoming increasingly urban.

This doctoral school aims to critically reflect on the concept of violence and provide insight into its literary and media representations.

This project starts from a new dataset on political violence in Bangladesh. Based on four newspapers (one English, three Bengali) the project aims to map political violence in Bangladesh from 1991 to the present.

CRG is a key member of the Centre for Public Authority and International Development (CPAID), which conducts interdisciplinary research to strengthen knowledge about how the governance of societies in impoverished, marginal and/or conflict-affected places actually functions.

Students and universities have traditionally been considered bastions of (democratic) resistance.

In this project that combines a historical background of literary representation, social media and digital technologies, digitized and online texts published in the Philippines from 2001 to 2020 will be analyzed.

This PhD project looks at several actors’ ‘violent imaginaries’ of the Malian conflict.