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Event: Policy Roundtable Advancing integrated climate–security responses: the role of local institutions, youth, and gender in flood-prone western Burundi

27 May 2026
14.00-15.30
Venue: Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU, Belliardstraat 65, 1040 Brussels

New Publication: The politics of potentiality: Responsible sourcing, ASM formalization and future making in the DRC’s cobalt mines

The DRC’s cobalt has become a spear point of global policies and narratives envisioning sustainable futures.

CRG Book Launches 23: Contested States in War and Law

Date: June 2, 2026 (Tuesday)

Time: 11:00–12:30

Venue: Room 3.1 (3rd Floor), Technicum 1, UFO Campus, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41

Call for Papers: Voices, Rights, Justice in Africa

Ghent Africa Platform Symposium International Conference
Tuesday 8 December 2026 at De Krook in Ghent, Belgium

New Publication: Hindu Community in Bangladesh: Between Identity and Marginality

This chapter examines the minoritisation of Bangladesh Hindus through communal violence and politics of land appropriation.

CRG Book Launches 22: Girlhood at War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo by Vjosa Musliu

Pieter Troch (UGent, GCSEES) in conversation with Vjosa Musliu (VUB)
When: 12 May 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 16:00–17:30 CET
Where: 3rd Floor, John Vincke Room, Technicum 1, UFO Campus, Ghent University

CRG Book Launches 21: Le plus grand des maux: Sociologie des guerres civiles by Gilles Dorronsoro.

Koen Vlassenroot (CRG) in conversation with Gilles Dorronsoro (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
May 5, 2026 ( Tue)
11:00-12:30

EVENT: Social Movements and the Law: Global South–North Conversations on Law, Resistance, and Justice

This event brings together voices from the Global South and the Global North to explore how communities and legal advocates confront power, both within and beyond formal legal systems.