ResilienceBuilding
Social Resilience, Gendered Dynamics, and Local Peace in Protracted Conflicts
The ResilienceBuilding Project focuses on the causes and consequenes of civilian agency of self-protection and violence prevention in contexts characterized by civil war, communal conflict, local peacebuilding, and international peacekeeping actors.
One research stream analyses the gender dimensions of social resilience and peacebuilding. A second one engages with the climate change, conflict and peacebuilding nexus to better understand vulnerability and building resilience. A third stream examines linkages between local and national peace processes and implications in variation in violence against civilians and peacebuilding success.
The research team conducts field research in Nigeria, Kenya and South Sudan. The team brings together researchers who implement multi-method approaches, combining in-depth interviewing and ethnographic observation with event data analysis, survey research, and archival work.
Previous Research Projects
2019-2022
Communal Conflicts in the Shadow of Civil War: Implications for Civilian Protection and Peacebuilding in South Sudan; (PI) Folke Bernadotte Academy (SEK 300.841/ € 29.000)
2019
Civilian Agency and Civilian Protection in Comparative Perspective
(PI) Folke Bernadotte Academy (SEK 65000/ €6000) workshop funding for edited volume
2018-2020
Gender Budgeting in Myanmar
International Development Research Center (ICRC) Canada ($ 418.000); PI: Khin Ma Ma Myo, Myanmar Institute of Gender Studies; with Theodora-Ismene Gizelis, University of Essex, and Paul Minoletti, U Thant House.
2018-2020
A Gender Perspective on Civilian Ceasefire Monitoring and Civilian Protection in Myanmar
(PI) Folke Bernadotte Academy Research Grant (SEK 270.000/ € 27.000)
2017-2018
Communal Violence and Civilian Protection in South Sudan
(PI) University of Amsterdam (€5000), field research funding
2014 -2017
The Gender Dimensions of Social Conflict, Armed Violence and Peacebuilding
Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues of Development (R4D) (CHF 1.500’000), Lead proposal writer and Co-Investigator, with E. Prügl (PI) and R. Kunz, Graduate Institute Geneva; W. Udasmoro, Gadjah Mada University Indonesia; J. Onyesoh, WILPF Nigeria.
2013-2014
Social Conflict and Social Resilience
(PI) Swiss National Science Foundation Early Career Research Grant