Ghent Centre for Global Studies

Research Consortium ‘Global Studies’ within the framework of the appointment of a research coordinator

Anatomy of the jihadi phenomenon in Cameroon: armed mobilizations, State formation and social configurations

Congo Cop: Performing the State in Central Africa

Doctoral project Anna Reuss

Doctoral project Antony Puthumattathil

Doctoral project Hans Hoebeke

Doctoral project Hélène Flaam

Doctoral project Jan Cherlet

Doctoral project Josaphat Musamba Bussy

Doctoral project Kato Van Broeckhoven

Doctoral project Maarten Hendriks

Doctoral project Marte Beldé

Doctoral project Mohammad Aynul Islam

Doctoral project Muganda Michael Mutaka

Doctoral project Sara Weschler

Doctoral project Wondo Omanyundu

Long Term Legacies of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda

Looking for land, finding people: Intimate governance and subalternity in Acholi, northern Uganda

Memory, Coloniality, Elites and Trenches: A Political Ecology of Conservation Conflicts in Uganda

Monde social du diamant en milieu rural à l'heure de la crise de l'administration publique. Cas des villages Nyeme et Onyama au Sankuru en République démocratique du Congo

Political parties and the making of a post-war political field in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The logics of camp historicity in Uganda's Nakivale Refugee Settlement: coloniality, sanctuary and 'the national order of things'

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.

Doctoral project Faith Ogeto-Orwa

Doctoral project Siyum Adugna Mamo

AFR-PhD Grant agreement 2014-2, project reference 8980771 Michel Thill

aid effectiveness and fragile contexts (Crespo)

A micro level analysis of violent conflict

Analysis of SALW seized in Colombia to evaluate and improve (European) arms export controls

Analyzing conflict mobilities from Uganda’s Nakivale Refugee Settlement: embedding refugee mobility into the broader migration (hi)story of Central-East Africa 

"Beyond the shadow of war": a study of 'post-conflict' governance in Nepal

Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR): Migration and Social Mobility: Creating Impact through Participation

Enhancing capacity in Natural Resourche Management and conflict resoluion for stability and inclusive growth in the Greater Virunga Landscape

Fluid discours. A multi-sited ethnography of development aid in the water sector

Governance in 'rebellious' society: An ethnography of governance complexes in central and northeast India

Governance without governance in Africa, protracted crises

Identity in peripheral cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

International Policy Seminar 'Defining Options for Policy on Land Issues and Conflict in Eastern Congo'

International Thematic Network - GIC 2020-2022

International Thematic Network - GIC 2022-2023

International Thematic Network - GIC 2023-2024

International Thematic Network - GIC 2023-2026

Memory, Silence and Reconciliation in Africa’s Great Lakes region: A Comparative Study of Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, 1994-2014.

Merging at the Margins: State-Party and the Impossible Autonomy of the Political Field in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Mining and the security-development nexus: The case of Mindanao

On the pursuit of Islamic statehood: how 'global' goals evolve in 'local' conflict settings, a view from Mali's Sikasso region

On the pursuit of Islamic Statehood: How the Salafi-Jihadist ideological goal of Islamic statehood results in practical on-the-ground governance.

Operating funds Lukas Pairon

Political ecology of common-pool resources in war-affected regions - The case of fisheries in Lake Edward (DR Congo - Uganda)

Reading the Land: Present-Day Land Conflict and the Ghosts of Colonial-Era Environmental Engineering in Northern Uganda’s Acholi Region

Reading the Land: Present-Day Land Conflict and the Ghosts of Colonial-Era Environmental Engineering in Northern Uganda’s Acholi Region

Rebels in Space. Fragmented authority, non–conventional logistics & networks of violence in Central Africa

Rural materialism and peripheral rebels: Re-thinking peasantry and politics in conflict-areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Science as a terrain of postcolonial interaction between Africa and Europe: past and future

social and humanitarian reasons Steven Van Bockstael

Socio-anthropology of security practices and conflict dynamics in eastern DR Congo

Structural Institutional Partnership Mountains of the Moon University 2023-2024

TEAM

The co-contruction of knowledge and discourse in the global network of international development actors. The case of water.

The conundrum of violence against civilians: Explaining civilian abuse by armed forces in the eastern DR Congo

The impact of mining-induced displacement and resettlement on the dynamics of belonging among displaced people in Katanga

The impact of mining-induced displacement and resettlement on the dynamics of belonging among displaced people in Katanga (DR Congo)

The Political Ecology of Human-Wildlife Conflict Management in Western Uganda

The politics of informality: a case study of informal networks, power, and authority in Liberia's artisanal mining sector.

The politics of time at the ASM-LSM interface in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo

The Social Anthropology of Security Practices and Conflict Dynamics in Central African Civil Wars

The socio-economic impact of artisanal mining in eastern DR Congo

The transformation of group identities in the Nort caucasus: a study of social response to group conflict

THE VIGILANTES OF GOMA: Urban Youth, Hybrid Security Provision & Urban Dynamics of Crime and Violence in Times of Conflict

UGent Human Rights Research Network

Urban youth gangs in Goma and Kisangani: the role of violence in subject formation

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.

Political ecology of common-pool resources in war-affected regions - The case of fisheries in Lake Edward (DR Congo - Uganda)

Violence, public order and the state in South Asia: Understanding the role of political violence in governance in Bangladesh