ResilienceBuilding
Social Resilience, Gendered Dynamics, and Local Peace in Protracted Conflicts
The Resilience Building project studies the causes and consequences of community vulnerability and social resilience; gender dimensions of conflict and peace building; civilian agency and violence prevention in complex and multi-level conflicts; and the interaction of local and national peace processes. We focus in particular on the unintended effects of protective civilian agency and resilience building in conflict contexts characterised by civil war and communal conflict, climate change, local peacebuilding, and international peacekeeping. The research team pursues empirical multi-method research in South Sudan, Nigeria, and Kenya.
The project is led by Professor Jana Krause at the University of Oslo, with collaborators based at Uppsala University and the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
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