University of Antwerp

Research Team

Deputy MICROCON Director: Dr. Philip Verwimp

Philip is currently a post-doctoral fellow from the Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders, Belgium) at the University of Antwerp and a visiting fellow at ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles. He specialises in the economic causes and consequences of conflict at the micro-level and has done quantitative work on the death toll of the genocide and on the demography of post-genocide Rwanda.

His main areas of geographical specialisation are Rwanda and Burundi.

Philip is leader of the Work Package, 'Risk, Security and Coping Mechanisms'.

MICROCON projects:

Project 15 - Civil War and Activity Choice
Project 16: Land reform and violent conflicts
Project 20: Dynamics of poverty in conflict areas

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