Conflict Research Group, Ghent University
Research team
Lead researcher: Prof. Koen Vlassenroot
Koen is the Coordinator of the Conflict Research Group. He is a political scientist specialising in the political economy of conflict, non-state armed actors, processes of identity formation, land-access and food security.
His work has mainly focussed on Central Africa, especially the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Koen is leader of the Work Package, 'Governance and Institutions'.
MICROCON projects:
Project 25: Governance without government?
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Researcher: Dr. Timothy Raeymaekers
Timothy is a Research Fellow in the Conflict Research Group. He is an anthropologist focussing on the political economy of conflict, informal governance structures, non-state armed actors, conflict and organized crime, the arms trade, conflict and the private sector (mining, transborder commerce).
His geographical specialisations are the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
MICROCON projects:
Project 25: Governance without government?
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Researcher: Els Lecoutere
Els is a Research Fellow in the Conflict Research Group. Her main areas of interest are: conflicts over water, household vulnerability in rural Sub-Sahara Africa, resource conflicts, new institutional economics and participatory research methodologies.
Her main country of interest is Tanzania.
MICROCON projects:
Researcher: Dr. Karel Arnaut
Karel is part of the Research Group on African Languages and Culture at the University of Ghent. His main research interests are in different dimensions of 'public culture': media, public ritual, new social movements, and political discourse.
Most of his past work is situated in Côte d'Ivoire, but he has also published on (African and Flemish) identity politics in Belgium from a postcolonial point of view.
MICROCON projects:
Funded by EC under FP6
