Karen Büscher
is associate professor at Ghent University. Since 2007, within the Conflict Research Group, she has developed her research trajectory on the urban aspects of protracted violent conflict in Eastern DRC. Her work focuses on the urban geographies of forced displacement, rebellion and protracted violence.
Elisée Cirhuza Balolage
is a researcher at the Groupe d’Etudes sur les Conflits et la Sécurité Humaine (GEC-SH/ISP-Bukavu, D.R.Congo) since 2018. His research focuses on land conflicts and tensions in the energy sector). Prior to joining GEC-SH, he, worked as a research assistant for Justice Pour Tous, a civil society organization in Eastern Congo.
Nicholas Dorward
is a Lecturer in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol and holds a PhD in Human Geography, also from the University of Bristol. His research interests lie at the intersection of political science, global development, and urban geography with a specific focus on modelling the causes and consequences of urbanization, conflict, and political change in African cities.
Emma Elfversson
is associate professor at the Department of Government, Uppsala University. Her research interests concern urban/rural dimensions of organized violence, ethnic politics and communal conflict, and the role of state and non-state actors in addressing conflicts. Her research focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, with case studies in Kenya.
Sean Fox
is Associate Professor of Global Development in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol, and a former Research Associate at the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on understanding processes of urbanization and urban governance in Africa and Asia, as well as patterns and drivers of contentious collective action.
Wassy Kambale
is a junior researcher from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He studied at the University of Goma where he obtained a degree in International Relations. He has a particular interest in the role of communication for the
Parfait Kaningu Bushenyula
is a junior researcher at the Angaza Institute of the ISDR-Bukavu. His current research focuses on natural resources, armed conflict and urban activism. Prior to joining Angaza Institute, Parfait worked as a research assistant in Burundi and the DRC in two research projects of the Catholic University of Leuven: the MIS project ‘Mission d’impulsion scientifique’ and the T2S project T2S project “The challenges of localizing land-registration in conflict-affected Burundi and eastern DRC”.
Sam Kniknie
is a PhD student at Ghent University, affiliated to the Conflict Research Group. In his research, he looks at urban protest in the conflict-ridden city of Goma, DRC. Using an ethnographic approach, he looks how youth in urban peripheries engage in practices of urban protest and how their subjectivities are molded by experiences of political violence and state violence.
Florian Köhler
holds a PhD in Social Anthropology, and is also trained as a practitioner in peace-building and conflict-resolution as which he has worked in Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso and Haiti. He has done extensive field research on pastoralists in the West African Sahel and is author of the monograph Space, Place and Identity: Wodaabe of Niger in the 20th Century. Currently he is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, with a project on the impacts of the Boko Haram insurgency on Eastern Niger.
Kieran Mitton
is a Reader in Conflict, Security and Development in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. His research focuses on violence and youth marginality in contexts of both war and peace and employs extended fieldwork with perpetrators. He is the author of ‘Rebels in a Rotten State: Approaches to Understanding Atrocity in Sierra Leone’s Civil War’ (2015, Hurst/Oxford University Press).
Silke Oldenburg
is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She obtained her PhD from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and held postdoctoral and visiting fellowships at the University of Boulder and Columbia University. Her research interests include the anthropology
Camille Louise Pellerin
is researcher in development studies at the Department of Government, Uppsala University. Her work focuses on state–society relations, democratization, political reform, public administration and urban protest movements and conflict in the Horn of Africa. Camille has carried out extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Ethiopia since 2015.
Jannik Schritt
holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Göttingen. He has done extensive field research on oil, power and politics in Niger and published widely on transnational governmentality, oil politics, civil society and protest movements. From February to August 2018 he held a Volkswagen grant as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of African Affairs at GIGA Hamburg. Currently, he is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Technical University of Berlin and member of the CRC 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces” with a focus on translocal expert cultures promoting citizens’ participation.
Sebastian van Baalen
is an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. His doctoral dissertation, which he defended on 15 January 2021, explores variation in rebel governance in Côte d’Ivoire, focusing on how civilian protests shape the responsiveness of rebel rule. His research interests concern the dynamics of rebel governance and violence, civilian self-protection strategies in civil war, and the causes of postwar violence. He has carried out extensive field research in Côte d’Ivoire since 2017, and is part of a research project on armed actors and electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire.