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
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...

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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
📣📜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
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January 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
🔎 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
📖" Good Soldiers Don’t Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence"
🖋️ Author: Megan MacKenzie
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
December 30, 2024 at 12:22 PM
📖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
December 30, 2024 at 12:18 PM

📖"Fariana's Post-Armed Struggle Feminist Militancy"
🖋️Authors: Priscyll Anctil Avoine and Zulay Carolina Rueda
December 30, 2024 at 12:17 PM
📖"The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan: Waging War by Law"
🖋️Author: Adam Baczko
🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
December 30, 2024 at 12:16 PM
📖Nasser Road: Political Posters in Uganda
Author: Kristof Titeca
December 30, 2024 at 12:15 PM

📖"Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka"
🖋️ Author: Bart Klem
🔗🔑🔓 www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
December 30, 2024 at 12:13 PM
📖"Geopolitics of Green Colonialism: Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions”
🖋️Authors: Miriam Lang, Mary Ann Manahan and Breno Bringel
🔗 www.plutobooks.com/978074534934...
🔗🔑🔓OPEN ACCESS: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12...
December 30, 2024 at 12:12 PM
🔎🔎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
📜The Political Economy of the Kaziba Chiefdom
South Kivu, DRC. 🔗

www.gicnetwork.be/wp-content/u...
December 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM
📜The Political Economy of the Bukumu chiefdom
North Kivu, DRC. 🔗
www.gicnetwork.be/wp-content/u...
December 27, 2024 at 11:59 AM