Director
Koen Vlassenroot
   
Programme coordinators
Jeroen Adam
Bruno De Cordier
Bert Suykens
   
Staff
Karen Büscher
Jan Cherlet
Jeroen Cuvelier
Sophie De Feyter
Salvatore Di Rosa
Ruddy Doom
Aynul Islam
Els Lecoutere
Dev Manti
Lucy Massoi
Haidari Misafi
Michael Muganda
Anthony Puttumattathil
Tomas Van Acker
Steven Van Bockstael
Boris Verbrugge
An Vranckx
Anne Walraet

 
 Jeroen Adam
     
Current position Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Education PhD in Political Science (Ghent University)
Master in Contemporary History (Ghent University)
Master in Conflict and Development (Ghent University)
Areas of Interest Conflict and transition in Pacific Asia, State - society relations
Contact T +32(0)9 264 97 26
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E jeroen.adam@UGent.be
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 Karen Büscher
     
Current position Research Fellow
Education

Master in African Languages and Cultures (Ghent University)
Master in Conflict and Development (Ghent University)
Areas of Interest Urban dynamics & urban identity, relation city-state, peripheral 
cities, Central Africa (RDCongo).
Contact T +32(0)9 264 67 94
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E karen.buscher@UGent.be
     
 
 Jan Cherlet
     
Current position Research Fellow
Education Master in Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Barcelona)
Master in Civil Engineering (Ghent University)
Areas of Interest anthropology of development aid; sociology of knowledge; governance of water; social impacts of climate change; West-Africa
Contact jan.cherlet@ugent.be
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 Jeroen Cuvelier
     
Current position Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Education

PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Leuven)
MA in Governance and Development (University of Antwerp)
MA in African Studies (University of Leiden)
Areas of Interest Natural resources, artisanal mining, war economies, Katanga (DR Congo), gender, migration
Contact T +32(0)9 264 69 64
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E jeroen.cuvelier@UGent.be
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 Bruno De Cordier
     
Current Position Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Education Masters in Political Science (Ghent University)
Postgraduate in Development Economics (Ghent University)
Doctorate in Political Science (Ghent University)
Areas of Interest Humanitarian policy; faith-based civil society; non-governmental armed groups and proxy wars; geographic focus: Pakistan, Muslim India and Southern Eurasia.
Contact T +32(0)9 264 69 17
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E bruno.decordier@UGent.be
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 Sophie De Feyter
     
Current position Research Fellow
Education

Master in Linguistics and Literature: Germanic Languages (Ghent University)
Master in Conflict and Development (Ghent University)
Areas of Interest Urban transformation and agency, informal settlements, slum upgrading, community participation, Kenya
Contact T +32(0)9 264 97 66
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E sophie.defeyter@UGent.be
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Salvatore Di Rosa
     
Current position Research Fellow
Education Master in Translation (University of Antwerp, HIVT)
Areas of Interest post-Soviet space, (trans)formation of group identities
Contact T +32(0)9 264 67 94
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E salvatore.dirosa@ugent.be
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Ruddy Doom
     
Current position Professor
Education

Master in Political & Social Sciences (Ghent University)

Areas of Interest  
Contact T +32(0)9 264 69 14
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E ruddy.doom@UGent.be
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 Aynul Islam
     
Current position Research Fellow
Education

Master in Governance and Development (University of Antwerp)
Master in Political Science (Dhaka University, Bangladesh)
Areas of Interest Micro analysis of violence in conflict, micro-governance, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Conflict in Bangladesh.
Contact T +32(0)9 264 67 94
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E aynul.islam@ugent.be
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 Els Lecoutere
     
Current position Research Fellow
Education

Master of Economic Sciences – Option Development Economics, (K.U. Leuven)
MSc Demography (UCL)
Areas of Interest Governance of water in developing countries, resource conflicts, common pool resources, household vulnerability in rural Sub-Sahara Africa, new institutional economics, field experiments, participatory research methodologies
Contact T +32(0)9 264 67 35
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E els.lecoutere@UGent.be
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 Dev Manti
     
Current position

Professor and Director, Institute of Rural Studies and Administration (Guntur, India)
Associated member CRG

Education

Doctor in Development Planning and Economics (UGent)
Master in Development Planning and Economics (UGent)
Master in Economics (Bhopal University, India)
Areas of Interest Income distribution, participatory rural development, disaster management, conflict management, etc. in Asia, especially India.
Contact T +91 (0)863 228 83 54
F +91 (0)863 228 83 53
E-mail: irsain@sancharnet.in / irsains@gmail.com
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 Lucy Massoi
     
Current position Research Fellow
Education

Mphil. in Public Administration and Organisation Theory, University of Bergen, Norway

Areas of Interest Land Access Rights and Conflict in Tanzania
Contact T +32(0)9 264 97 42
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E Lucy.Massoi@UGent.be
     
 
 Haidari Misafi
     
Current position Research Fellow
Education

Bachelor of Arts (Political Science), University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Master of Public Administration, Mzumbe University, Tanzania

Areas of Interest Decentralization in Africa (Tanzania), Participation in Local Governance, Gender, Field Research Methods
Contact T +32(0)9 264 97 42
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E HaidariPascal.Misafi@UGent.be
     
 
 Michael Muganda
     
Current position Research Fellow
Education

 
Areas of Interest  
Contact T +32(0)9 264
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E michael.muganda@UGent.be
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 Anthony Puthumattathil
     
Current position Research Fellow
Education

Master in Sociology (Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India)
Master of Cultures and Development Studies (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Areas of Interest Development of Tribal Communities, Sustainable Livelihoods, Ethnicity, Identity, Democratic Decentralisation and Local Self-Governance
Contact T +32(0)9 264 97 42
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E anthony.puthumattathil@UGent.be
     
 
 Bert Suykens
     
Current position Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Education

PhD in Political Science (Ghent University)
Master in Conflict and Development (University of Ghent)
Master in History (K.U.Leuven)
Areas of Interest Legal pluralism, Governance-conflict nexus, Border studies, Forest rights, Political economy, India
Contact T +32(0)9 264 67 90
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E bert.suykens@ugent.be
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 Tomas Van Acker
     
Current position Research Fellow
Education

Master in Art History and Archaeology (Ghent University)
Master in Conflict and Development (Ghent University)
Areas of Interest State- society relations, peace and state building processes, democratization, youth mobilization,  Great Lakes region, Burundi
Contact

T +32(0)9 264 67 66
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E tomas.vanacker@ugent.be

     
 
 
 Steven Van Bockstael
     
Current position Research Fellow
Education

MA Conflict & Development (Ghent University)
MA History (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Areas of Interest Artisanal and small-scale mining; 'conflict minerals' and resource certification initiatives; natural resources governance, with an emphasis on post-conflict reconstruction and development; West and Central Africa
Contact T +32(0)9 264
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E steven.vanbockstael@UGent.be
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 Boris Verbrugge
     
Current position Research Fellow
Education

Master in Political Science (Ghent University)
Master in Conflict and Development (Ghent University)
Areas of Interest Natural Resource Governance; Political Economy of Conflict; Mining; Regional focus: Philippines (Mindanao)
Contact T +32(0)9 264 69 10
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E boris.verbrugge@UGent.be
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 Koen Vlassenroot
     
Current position Professor and CRG Director
Education PhD in Political and Social Science (Ghent University)
Master in International Relations (University of Brussels)
Master in Development (Ghent University)
Areas of Interest political economy of conflict, non-state armed actors, processes of identity formation, land-access, food security, Central Africa
Contact T +32(0)9 264 69 15
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E koen.vlassenroot@UGent.be
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 An Vranckx
     
Current position

Lecturer (gastprofessor) and Research Associate
Education

PhD in science for policy (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1998) Research Training ('onderzoeker in opleiding) (Universiteit Amsterdam) Masters in International and European Law (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Masters in technology dynamics (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Erasmus Univrsiteit Rotterdam) Masters in cognition and linguistics (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Ample field experience on Latin American security problems.
Areas of Interest

Latin America, (armed) non-state actors, security sector reform, arms trafficking and conflict financing
Contact

M + 32 (0) 497619668
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E an.vranckx@UGent.be
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 Anne Walraet
     
Current position Professor
Education

PhD in Political and Social Science (Ghent University)
Master in Development (Ghent University)
Master in Philosophy (Ghent University)
Areas of Interest

Political economy of conflict, non-state armed actors, Sub-Sahara Africa, displacement, transborder economy, urban transformation, informal economic and political processes
Contact T +32(0)9 264 69 18
F +32(0)9 264 69 97
E anne.walraet@UGent.be
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