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Welcome to the Conflict Research Group
 

The Conflict Research Group (CRG) is a multidisciplinary research unit at the Ghent University (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences). We are primarily interested in the micro-level dynamics of civil conflicts and concentrate both on the impact of civil conflicts on local communities, and on the links between local and global dimensions of conflict. CRG's crosscutting analysis has led to the comparison of different geographical case studies, from Asia and sub-Sahara Africa to Latin America. Our research centres around three clusters: resources, governance and humanitarian aid.

 
New Events
 

Tuesday, 29 May 2012, 12:00

Introducing Slow Science (Methods and Ethics in Fieldwork)

Omar Jabary Salamanca and Siggie Vertommen

Meeting Room CTWS, Universiteitsstraat 8

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Thursday-Friday, 31 May-1 June 2012

A comparative analysis on the Micro-Level Genealogies of Conflict in the Philippines' Mindanao and Indonesia's Ambon

At: Politicologenetmaal 2012, University of Amsterdam

Jeroen Adam

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Wednesday-Saturday, 30 May-2 June 2012

Non-state urban security governance in a (post)-conflict setting: The case of Goma, DR Congo

At: VAD-2012 conference: Embattled Spaces - Contested Orders, University of Cologne

Karen Büscher

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Tuesday-Saturday, 5-9 June 2012

Micro-level impacts of managing, controlling and securing the Congo-Rwandan border: The case of transborder mobility in the Goma-Gisenyi borderland

At: ABORNE Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh

Karen Büscher

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Urban Food Security in a Violent Setting: Case Study: The Town of Ambon, Indonesia

In: Poverty in Medium and Small Cities of Developing Countries (edited by P. Bouvier, J. Bakole & D. Swinne)

Jeroen Adam

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Rebels without borders in the Rwenzori borderland? A biography of the Allied Democratic Forces

In: Journal of Eastern African Studies

Kristof Titeca & Koen Vlassenroot

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Post het YouTubefilmpje over Joseph Kony nog niet, lees eerst dit stuk

In: De Morgen

Kristof Titeca & Koen Vlassenroot

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Informal political structures, resources and the Ugandan army: military entrepreneurialism in the Ugandan-Congolese borderland

In: African Conflicts and Informal Power: Big Men and Networks (edited by Mats Utas)

Koen Vlassenroot & Sandrine Perot

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Displacement in post-war Southern Sudan: Survival and
accumulation within urban perimeters

MICROCON Research Working Papers 57

Anne Walraet

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Doing business out of war. An analysis of the UPDF's presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

In: Journal of Eastern African Studies

Koen Vlassenroot, Sandrine Perrot & Jeroen Cuvelier

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KONY 2012 and the Prospects for Change: Examining the Viral Campaign

On: Foreign Affairs

Mareike Schomerus, Tim Allen & Koen Vlassenroot

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Deconstructing the Reconstruction: The IHRC

In: Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake (edited by Mark Schuller & Pablo Morale)

Joris Willems

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Diamonds, rice, and a 'maggi cube': Artisanal diamond mining and livelihoods in Liberia

Steven Van Bockstael & Koen Vlassenroot (eds.)

Diamond mining, rice farming and a 'Maggi cube': A viable survival strategy in rural Liberia

In: Journal of International Development

Gavin Hilson & Steven Van Bockstael

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Peace Maybe: Joint evaluation of conflict prevention and peace building in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Emery Brusset, Koen Vlassenroot et al.

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The Conflict Research Group is part of the following networks:

  • Justice and Security Research Programme (more info)
  • Observatoire de l'Afrique (more info)
  • European South Asia PhD Seminars
 
Contact
 

CRG Office
Ghent University
Universiteitsstraat 8
B-9000 Ghent
Belgium

T +32 9 264 69 15
F +32 9 264 69 97

crg@UGent.be

 

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