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Decolonising social norms change: An analysis of the politics of knowledge production in relation to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and child marriage
Warfare and the nature of conflict have substantially changed over the last 40 years. Yet, the procedures and content of peace agreements have not evolved with this change.
Can (some sort of) ‘Donbas separatism’ happen in Kazakhstan?
Warfare and the nature of conflict have substantially changed over the last 40 years. Yet, the procedures and content of peace agreements have not evolved with this change.
The maritime in the landlocked: The position and role of seas in the modern shaping of the Ciscaspian-Central Asian region.
This research, which focuses on the early-modern and modern historical periods, looks into the position and role of these water surfaces and their respective littorals in western Central Asia’s social history.
Relief aid in the context of the Ukraine war(s): towards a redefinition of the humanitarian (space)?
Warfare and the nature of conflict have substantially changed over the last 40 years. Yet, the procedures and content of peace agreements have not evolved with this change.
Mining ecology, early urbanism and environmental knowledge in Katanga: a deep-time interdisciplinary approach
Through an interdisciplinary approach involving political anthropology, oral history, environmental archaeology and historical linguistics, this project aspires to transform our understanding of the deep-time interactions between artisanal mining ecology, early urbanism, and indigenous ecological knowledge in the southeastern DRC.
Analyzing conflict mobilities from Uganda’s Nakivale Refugee Settlement
This research project examines to which extent conflict dynamics and refugee policy structures have an impact on broader mobility patterns and dynamics in the war-torn Central-East African region.
The Spectre of Political Induced Mobility in Kenya
This research project aims to explore how historical land grievances and post-colonial structures have contributed to political induced violence that has led to different categories of im/mobilities.
What does peace have to do with it? Examining the creation and operationalisation of peace arrangements and their actors in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Warfare and the nature of conflict have substantially changed over the last 40 years. Yet, the procedures and content of peace agreements have not evolved with this change.
Violent collective actions and the ‘democratic transition’ in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has remained in turmoil since its recent transition that begun in 2018.
Utafiti ya Amani
Security dynamics in the eastern Congo are shifting rapidly. In April 2021, a new government was sworn in with a program that outlines its priorities for peacebuilding in the eastern Congo.