Conflict, Displacement and Transformation
Cluster leader: Cyril I. Obi
This research cluster involves the following programmes and projects:
- Post-Conflict Transition, the State and Civil Society in Africa
Researcher: Cyril I. Obi - Gendering and (Un)Gendering Police Reform: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Researcher: Maria Eriksson Baaz - Conflict and State building in the Horn of Africa
Researcher: Redie Bereketeab - Informal Security Structures in the Mano River Region: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
Researcher: Mats Utas - The Politics of Belonging and Exclusion:
Land Rights, Citizenship and Civil Society in Kenya and Uganda
Researcher: Anders Sjögren
The conflict cluster aims to bring together research and analysis that explore key aspects of, and relationships between, on the one hand, various kinds of violent conflict and forced displacement, and on the other, processes of post-conflict peace building and modes of recovery and reinvention in the face of sustained uncertainties. More generally, the intention is to use the cluster openly and creatively as a platform for:
- Exploring and deepening conceptual and methodological approaches to the study of violent conflicts, forced displacement, modes of suffering, peace building and processes of transformation at different levels;
- Undertaking, supporting and disseminating empirically-grounded research on a diverse range of conflicts, displacement and transformations on the African continent: and
- Engaging in public debate and policy dialogue, where relevant, related to these topics.
The current core foundations of this cluster combines complementary knowledge and experience in at least two regions of the continent, namely West Africa and Southern Africa different disciplinary perspectives, including political science, anthropology, human geography and development studies.
‘Gondo Harishayi’ ("The hawk finds something when it attacks" in Shona, a slogan used by the police force in Zimbabwe). Painting by Lovemore Kambudzi, Zimbabwe (owned by NAI).
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