You are invited!
CRG Book Launch 15: Decolonising Education in Islamic West Africa by Dr. Anneke Newman ( CRG)
🗓️ MARCH 18 (Tuesday)
🕚 Time: 11:00 – 12:30
📍 Venue: 3rd F. John Vincke Room, Technicum 1 UFO Campus, Ghent University
🔗 Register here: event.ugent.be/registration...
Free Film Screening and Seminar:
Film and Contentious Politics in Senegal
by Professor and Filmmaker Mamadou Dia
Date: MARCH 28 (Friday)
Time: 13:00 – 16:00
Venue: -2 Floor, Auditorium B, Technicum 1, UFO Campus, UGhent
To register, click 🔗👉🏻 event.ugent.be/registration...
You are invited!
"FILM AND CONTENTIOUS POLITICS IN SENEGAL"
Seminar and Screening of Baanum Nafi
by Professor and Filmmaker Mamadou Dia
🗓️ MARCH 28 (Friday)
🕐 Time: 13:00 – 16:00
📍 Venue: -2 Floor, Auditorium B, Technicum 1, UFO Campus, Ghent University
Register 🔗👉🏻 event.ugent.be/registration...
New OPEN ACCESS Publication: "The Political Hidden Costs of Power-Sharing in the Democratic Republic of Congo" by @kvlassen.bsky.social and Alice Gregoire
🔗To access, click here 👉🏻 www.gicnetwork.be/wp-content/u...
#DRC #Politics#Governance #ConflictResolution #Africa #PowerSharing #PowerSharing
📜DESCRIPTION:
This seminar will delve into the history of conflict in eastern Congo, its complexities, and its main players.
📣You're Invited!
RITES BITES WITH KOEN VLASSENROOT:
" HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE ESCALATION OF THE CONGO CONFLICT?"
📅 Date: February 28, 2025 (Friday)🕛 Time: 12:00–13:00
📍 Location: 3rd Floor, John Vincke, Technicum 1, UFO Campus, UGhent
🔗 Register here: event.ugent.be/registration...
REFRACT PSP "critically examines the evolving dynamics of fragility and resilience amid escalating crises. By engaging with policymakers and exploring the causes, lived experiences, and impacts of these crises, we want to inform policy responses."
✅ Engage and share insights on critical global issues, including:
🔹 Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus
🔹 Localisation of Aid
🔹 Civic Space & the "Leave No One Behind" Principle
🔹 Political Economy of Conflict & Civil War
🔹 Methodological & Epistemological Challenges
🔹 Gender & Conflict
✅ Access recent briefs on fragility and resilience-building
✅ Stay updated on REFRACT events and activities
✅ Engage and share insights on critical global issues, including: 👇🏻
🌟 Exciting News! 🌟
The new REFRACT PSP website is officially live!
(Resilience and Fragility in Action – Policy Supporting Programme)
🔗 Visit here: www.refract-psp.be
( Kindly share the link.)
💡 On this platform, you can: ( a thread 🧵 👇🏻 )
📜“The team will investigate the transnational mobility and reconfiguration of conflict narratives and social tensions that emerge from the protracted war in Eastern DRC (Congo), and its impact on urban settlement patterns and homemaking practices in the Congolese diaspora in Flanders.”
Congratulations to @karen-buscher.bsky.social, Luce Beeckmans, and Godefroid Muzalia on securing FWO funding for their research project titled:
📜 “Transnational Urban Warscapes between Eastern Congo and Flanders: Mapping the Everyday Re-territorialization of Conflict through Diaspora Homemaking."
📣EVENT: CRG Book Launch Series
YOU ARE INVITED!
📜Occupation: Russian rule in South-Eastern Ukraine by David Lewis (University of Exeter) - CRG
For more information, click 🔗
crg-ghent.be/https-www-ug...
To register , click 🔗 event.ugent.be/registration...
@kvlassen.bsky.social will be one of the panel speakers at the "25 Years of Conflict Studies at Utrecht University." The conference, with the theme “Concerning Conflict, War, and Peace,” will be held on on February 13–14, 2025, at Utrecht University.
click the program 🔗👉🏻 www.uu.nl/en/events/co...
CRG Director @kvlassen.bsky.social will deliver a talk on “ The transformations of contemporary wars and the role played by researchers" ( Lecture in French).
🗓️When: Feb. 11, 2025
🕒Time : 15H00-17H00 (GMT) +1 CET
📍Place : Salle des conférences (FSEG, Bamako)
#Mali #Africa #conflictresearch
With @judithverweijen.bsky.social I wrote this comment on why the Congo crisis extends beyonds 'conflict minerals'. (version française en dessous de la version angles) www.egmontinstitute.be/congo-crisis...
📣📜New Opinion piece on Congo crisis. (In Dutch)
✅"The Congo crisis extends beyond 'conflict minerals’" by @judithverweijen.bsky.social and @kvlassen.bsky.social Vlassenroot.
Read the full article 🔗 www.mo.be/opinie/de-co...
#DRCongo #Goma #conflict #minerals #opinion
🔎 Learn More About One of the Projects Led by the Conflict Research Group!
(🧵 a thread)
✅ INSECURE LIVELIHOODS SERIES
We offer open-access reports and analyses on violent conflicts in Eastern Congo.
🔗Access all the reports here: 👉🏻https://www.gicnetwork.be/insecure-livelihoods-series/
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🚨 REMINDER: Vacancy! Two sandwich PhD Scholarships
Tomorrow ( Jan. 15( is the last day to submit applications for our vacancy! Be part of our team.
The Conflict Research Group (CRG) offers 2 PhD sandwich scholarships in partnership with a university from the Global South.
📖" Good Soldiers Don’t Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence"
🖋️ Author: Megan MacKenzie
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
📖The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean.
Cornell University Press
🖋️Author: Timothy Raeymaekers
🔗https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773648/the-natural-border/#bookTabs=1
📖"Fariana's Post-Armed Struggle Feminist Militancy"
🖋️Authors: Priscyll Anctil Avoine and Zulay Carolina Rueda
📖"The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan: Waging War by Law"
🖋️Author: Adam Baczko
🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
📖Nasser Road: Political Posters in Uganda
Author: Kristof Titeca
📖"Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka"
🖋️ Author: Bart Klem
🔗🔑🔓 www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
