Conflict & Development Studies, Ghent University
Joined September 2012
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21 Aug 2023
For obvious reasons I haven't been very involved here anymore. Since interesting people in my timeline have moved on to bluesky and I'm hearing good things : would anybody have a code to share in DM? thx!
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12 Jun 2023
Do you want to work on climate change in conflict affected settings? 3(!) interesting PhD opportunities on Vulnerability and Climate Change Adaptation with Gulu University and IFRO/University of Copenhagen - both GIC partners. ifro.ku.dk/english/about_the…
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5 Apr 2022
We are launching our website for the #CRG20 conference (23-24 May) today! Registrations are now open: 20yearscrg.be
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17 Sep 2021
Heureux de pouvoir lancer une nouvelle série des blogs sur les luttes socio-environnementales dans le nord-est de la #RDC, éditée par @judithverweijen et Paul Vikanza. gicnetwork.be/serie-de-blogs…
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26 May 2021
Nouvelle note de recherche sur le Congo par @EmeryMudinga & Claude Wakenge , sur le manque des effets positifs dans les réponses des acteurs actifs dans la reforme foncière en #RDC gicnetwork.be/crise-fonciere…
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20 Apr 2021
interesting reflection on social science research on COVID 19, its western & urban centred bias and its blind spot for lessons from rural areas
20 Apr 2021
NEW BLOG "Doomsday or just another crisis" @AnAnsoms, A.Bashizi, E. Piccoli, JL Brackelaire & M. De Nanteuil explore the challenges and shortcoming of social science research on COVID19, and point to lessons from the global rural south gicnetwork.be/doomsday-or-ju…
ALT cartoon by @Kash_TMK
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6 Apr 2021
Nouveaux blogs par" la Grenelle des femmes chercheuses", cadre pluridisciplinaire qui réunit des chercheuses de @gec_sh & @AngazaInstitute à Bukavu, RDC avec collègues de la région Grands Lacs / Europe. Ces blogs sont une réflexion sur le métier de la chercheuse sous confinement.
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19 Mar 2021
Hommage à Marie-Soleil Frère, une grande amie de la presse et de la liberté d'expression au #Burundi et en Afrique. Merci pour tout ce que tu as été...
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19 Mar 2021
Répose en paix, Marie-Soleil...
19 Mar 2021
Page noire : Marie-Soleil Frère est décédée ce 19 mars 2021 omegamedias.info/blog/2021/0…
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5 Jan 2021
cartoons are by the great @KashauriM !
5 Jan 2021
We are proud to announce that our #Bukavuseries of blogs is now followed up by this great online expo of cartoons on the ethics of collaborative research in conflict settings. Also in Kiswahili / Français! bukavuseries.com
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25 Dec 2020
great news!!
24 Dec 2020
🔴URGENT
Agnès,Christine ,Egide, Térence libérés après 430 jours de prison.Accusés d’atteinte à la sureté de l’Etat,ils avaient été condamnés à 2 ans et 1/2 de détention sans preuves de ces allégations.Ils avaient demandé la grâce présidentielle. @iwacuinfo salue cette libération
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15 Dec 2020
great blog by @deborahdp making sense of recent protests in #Peru
15 Dec 2020
NEW BLOG The recent political upheavals in Peru sparked unseen protests all over the country. GIC network associate @deborahdp reflects on structural and conjunctural factors underlying the mass mobilization, and also looks ahead: gicnetwork.be/how-did-peru-r…
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1 Dec 2020
NOUVEAU BLOG #voixsilencieuses #grenelledesfemmes @AlineZihalirwa sur les défis pour des femmes académiques en #RDC face au confinement: "je me suis rendue compte que ce statut de prof ne me protégeait aucunement de la précarité." @AnAnsoms @IRENEBAHATI8 gicnetwork.be/de-prof-respec…
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23 Nov 2020
Interested in doing fieldwork on migration & urbanism in DRC? Apply here to join this project with my great colleague @KarenBscher @crg_crg @ugent
23 Nov 2020
#postdoc job opportunity : work with @KarenBscher from @crg_crg on IDPs, refugees and urban settlement in #DRC career5.successfactors.eu/sf…
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23 Nov 2020
ICYMI: last week, the insecure livelihoods with @judithverweijen project released its 3d report, looking at conflict dynamics in the #Ruzizi Plain, South Kivu #DRC gicnetwork.be/the-ruzizi-pla…
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23 Oct 2020
The 2nd @thegicnetwork #insecurelivelihoods report on conflict in Eastern DR Congo shows how new security challenges are undoing the status quo of political order in Kitchanga, North Kivu. Read here gicnetwork.be/insecure-livel…
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21 Oct 2020
Another important blog piece in the #silentvoices project: Dieudonné on the (in)ability to cross borders as a way to understand power imbalances between actors in collaborative research projects
21 Oct 2020
2/ "Foreign researchers always reach different areas for their research and do not get their visas denied. That is their privilege" In this #silentvoices blog, assistant Dieudonné recounts his ordeal trying to obtain a visa to join a workshop in Belgium. gicnetwork.be/my-visa-denial…
16 Sep 2020
Beach erosion due to climate change and unchecked coastal development is a huge problem in #Mauritius. @Maritim_Hotels doesn't seem to have noticed these last weeks how much Mauritian citizens care about their island facebook.com/aretkokinnulapl…
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