Conflict Research Group
crg-ugent.bsky.social
Conflict Research Group
@crg-ugent.bsky.social
The Conflict Research Group is a multidisciplinary research unit at Ghent University. We are primarily interested in the micro-level dynamics of conflict.
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...
March 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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...
February 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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...
February 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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
February 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
📣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...
February 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🌟 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 🧵 👇🏻 )
Refract PSP
www.refract-psp.be
February 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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."
February 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
📣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...
February 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
@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...
February 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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
February 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Reposted by Conflict Research Group
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...
Congo crisis extends beyond ‘conflict minerals’ - Egmont Institute
On Sunday night, the Congolese rebel group M23 and the Rwandan army invaded Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The fall of Goma […]
www.egmontinstitute.be
January 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
📣📜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
January 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🔎 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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January 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
🚨 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.
January 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🔎🔎CONFLICT RESEARCH GROUP 2024 REVIEW
( 🧵 a thread)

Through the Conflict Research Group Book Launch Series, we have highlighted several recently published books in 2024. These books deepen our understanding of critical issues, contexts, and perspectives on conflicts worldwide.

check below 🔗👇🏻
December 30, 2024 at 12:09 PM
INSECURE LIVELIHOODS SERIES 2024 ( A THREAD)

🔔Conflict Research Group provides open-access and free research, reports, analyses, and policy briefs. T

📚We’ve compiled our open-access reports for 2024.

To access the full collection of research, check the thread 👇🏻
December 27, 2024 at 11:47 AM
CRG's INSECURE LIVELIHOODS SERIES (ILS)

"The Political Economy of the Kaziba Chiefdom, South Kivu, DRC." by @kvlassen.bsky.social Vlassenroot with Eric Batumike Banyanga

Access the article here:🔗👉🏻👉🏻
www.gicnetwork.be/wp-content/u...

#DRCongo #Africa #conflict
December 26, 2024 at 2:11 PM
🔔 NEW REPORT 📜 (🗝️🗝️ OPEN ACCESS)

CRG's INSECURE LIVELIHOODS SERIES (ILS)

“The Political Economy of the Bukumu Chiefdom, North Kivu, DRC” by CRG Postdoctoral Staff Sam Kniknie with Thierry M. Rukata.

Access the article here:🔗👉🏻👉🏻 www.gicnetwork.be/the-politica...

#DRCongo #Africa #conflict
December 17, 2024 at 10:42 AM
ONGOING:
CRG team is participating in the 67th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), taking place in Chicago, IL, Dec. 12–14, 2024.
We are presenting the following 👇🏻

To know more about the conference,click👉🏻https://africanstudies.org/annual-meetings/
#Africa #globalafrica
December 13, 2024 at 2:04 PM
🚨🔐💻OPEN-ACCESS CO-AUTHORED PUBLICATION ON FEMINISM, KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, AND RESEARCH ETHICS! 📜 by CRG Senior Staff @drmmartind.bsky.social

"Doing Feminist Research on Conflict, Violence, and Peace: Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas."

To access, click 👉🏻 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 11, 2024 at 10:03 AM
🔔 NEW PUBLICATION on sand mining in Bangladesh! 📜

CRG Senior Staff @bertsuykens.bsky.social has co-authored an article with Atique Rahman and Magnus Hatlebakk. "Sand Mining, Non-Farm Employment, and a Local Labour Force in Rural Bangladesh can be accessed here: doi.org/10.1002/jid....
#Bangladesh
December 3, 2024 at 3:27 PM
🔔PUBLICATION📜 ( open access)
"The Occupied Zones in Ukraine in the Event of a Frozen Conflict: Humanitarian No-Go Areas or Unconventional Humanitarian Space?" by CRG Senior Fellow Bruno de Cordier.
Click here: 👉🏻 www.ugent.be/ps/politieke...

#CRG #Ukraine #Occupation #politics #Humanitarianaid
www.ugent.be
November 29, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Reposted by Conflict Research Group
Next week, I am back @cerium-udem.bsky.social to discuss with the inimitable @smmartinbrule.bsky.social and Ketty Nivyabandi about sexual violence, reparations and resilience in the DRC. If in Montreal, please join us!
November 25, 2024 at 10:27 AM
HAPPENING NOW!
Four of our research fellows are actively participating in the International Conference on Africa at the Intersection of Climate, Migration & Health Challenges at Ghent University, November 28- 29.
#conference #Africa #Migration #Conflict #Health #Nexus
November 28, 2024 at 10:01 AM