Past activities of the CRG Violent Conflict

Past activities

• 8 June 2012: Thematic Panel organised at CAS Conference in Edinburg "The criminalisation of conflict in Africa" 
• 7 February 2013: Thematic Workshop organized at Ghent University: “Conducting fieldwork in African conflict areas: Methodological questions on Proximity" (PDF)
• 28 June 2013: CRGVC Round Table organized at ECAS Lisbon “CRG Violent Conflict roundtable: Conducting fieldwork in African conflict areas: Methodological questions on Proximity"
• 27 September 2014: CRGVC Round Table organized at NAI: “African conflict analysis between politics and policy” 
• 08 July 2015: CRGVC round table organized at 5the ECAS conference “Spatial Readings of Violent Conflict in Africa: Discussions on the Pertinence of the ‘spatial turn’ in African Conflict Studies”
• September 2015: CRGVC Call for papers: "Call for papers for an edited volume/special issue: “African cities in war; Analysing dynamic relations between urbanisation and violent conflict in Africa”
• 16 December 2015: Thematic Workshop organised by Ghent University: "Rebels, Security and Public Authority: a critical deconstruction of the 'Rebel Governance' concept" (PDF)

2017

CRG Violent Conflict Panels at the 7th ECAS conference “Urban Africa”; 29 June – 1 July 2017, University of Basel:

• P050 A bottom-up perspective on military intervention in fragile state
• P055 Violent conflict and the politics of rural-urban transformation
• P057 Civil Wars and State Formation: Order and legitimacy during and after violent conflict
• P121 The ones who moved to the town: Informal DDR through urbanisation
• P107 After the Crisis? Ethnographies of Post-Crisis Situations in Africa
• P027 Rural-urban cleavages in the Congolese conflicts

https://ecasconference.org/2017/documents/ECAS2017_Programme_Book.pdf

2018

Summerschool “Governance at the Edge of the state: Materiality”, organised by Universities of Roskilde, Zürich, Copenhagen, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ghent University: 11-14 September 2018:

https://www.gicnetwork.be/summerschool-governance-at-the-edge-of-the-state-materiality/

International Conference “Civil Wars and State Formation; Africa in comparative Perspective” organised by Unige, with presentations from several members of the CRG Violent Conflict. University of Geneva: 15-17 November 2018:

https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/speri/files/2615/4082/8913/A3_AfricaPerspective_15-171118-3.pdf

International Workshop 'Thinking beyond fragility: new paradigms for governance in conflict’: organised by 3 member-institutes of the CRG Violent Conflict Network: LSE, Saint Louis and Ghent University. Ghent University: 7 December, 2018:

https://www.gicnetwork.be/workshop-thinking-beyond-fragility-new-paradigms-for-governance-in-conflict-december-7th-2018/

2019

‘promoted’ CRG Violent Conflict Panels at the 8th ECAS conference “Connections and disruptions”, University of Edinburgh, June 11-14 2019:

• “Violent conflict and urban governance”
• “International security assistance in Africa: views beyond the policy”

International Workshop “Legal Identity under Rebel Governance” University of Utrecht: 13-14 Juli 2019:

https://www.uu.nl/en/news/rebel-governance-and-legal-identity