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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Mar 12

You are invited!

CRG Book Launch 15: Decolonising Education in Islamic West Africa by Dr. Anneke Newman ( CRG)

🗓️ MARCH 18 (Tuesday)
🕚 Time: 11:00 – 12:30 
📍 Venue: 3rd F. John Vincke Room, Technicum 1 UFO Campus, Ghent University 
🔗 Register here: event.ugent.be/registration...

Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 27

Free Film Screening and Seminar:

Film and Contentious Politics in Senegal

by Professor and Filmmaker Mamadou Dia

Date: MARCH 28 (Friday)
Time: 13:00 – 16:00
Venue: -2 Floor, Auditorium B, Technicum 1, UFO Campus, UGhent
To register, click 🔗👉🏻 event.ugent.be/registration...

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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 26

You are invited!

"FILM AND CONTENTIOUS POLITICS IN SENEGAL"

Seminar and Screening of Baanum Nafi
by Professor and Filmmaker Mamadou Dia

🗓️ MARCH 28 (Friday)
🕐 Time: 13:00 – 16:00
📍 Venue: -2 Floor, Auditorium B, Technicum 1, UFO Campus, Ghent University

Register 🔗👉🏻 event.ugent.be/registration...

Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 25

New OPEN ACCESS Publication: "The Political Hidden Costs of Power-Sharing in the Democratic Republic of Congo" by @kvlassen.bsky.social and Alice Gregoire

🔗To access, click here 👉🏻 www.gicnetwork.be/wp-content/u...

#DRC #Politics#Governance #ConflictResolution #Africa #PowerSharing #PowerSharing

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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 21

📜DESCRIPTION:
This seminar will delve into the history of conflict in eastern Congo, its complexities, and its main players.

Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 21

📣You're Invited!

RITES BITES WITH KOEN VLASSENROOT:
" HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE ESCALATION OF THE CONGO CONFLICT?"

📅 Date: February 28, 2025 (Friday)🕛 Time: 12:00–13:00
📍 Location: 3rd Floor, John Vincke, Technicum 1, UFO Campus, UGhent

🔗 Register here: event.ugent.be/registration...

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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 17

REFRACT PSP "critically examines the evolving dynamics of fragility and resilience amid escalating crises. By engaging with policymakers and exploring the causes, lived experiences, and impacts of these crises, we want to inform policy responses."

Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 17

✅ Engage and share insights on critical global issues, including:
🔹 Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus
🔹 Localisation of Aid
🔹 Civic Space & the "Leave No One Behind" Principle
🔹 Political Economy of Conflict & Civil War
🔹 Methodological & Epistemological Challenges
🔹 Gender & Conflict

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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 17

✅ Access recent briefs on fragility and resilience-building
✅ Stay updated on REFRACT events and activities
✅ Engage and share insights on critical global issues, including: 👇🏻

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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 17

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟

The new REFRACT PSP website is officially live!
(Resilience and Fragility in Action – Policy Supporting Programme)

🔗 Visit here: www.refract-psp.be
( Kindly share the link.)

💡 On this platform, you can: ( a thread 🧵 👇🏻 )

Refract PSP

www.refract-psp.be

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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 14

📜“The team will investigate the transnational mobility and reconfiguration of conflict narratives and social tensions that emerge from the protracted war in Eastern DRC (Congo), and its impact on urban settlement patterns and homemaking practices in the Congolese diaspora in Flanders.”

Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 14

Congratulations to @karen-buscher.bsky.social, Luce Beeckmans, and Godefroid Muzalia on securing FWO funding for their research project titled:

📜 “Transnational Urban Warscapes between Eastern Congo and Flanders: Mapping the Everyday Re-territorialization of Conflict through Diaspora Homemaking."

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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 12

📣EVENT: CRG Book Launch Series

YOU ARE INVITED!

📜Occupation: Russian rule in South-Eastern Ukraine by David Lewis (University of Exeter) - CRG

For more information, click 🔗
crg-ghent.be/https-www-ug...

To register , click 🔗 event.ugent.be/registration...

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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 10

@kvlassen.bsky.social will be one of the panel speakers at the "25 Years of Conflict Studies at Utrecht University." The conference, with the theme “Concerning Conflict, War, and Peace,” will be held on on February 13–14, 2025, at Utrecht University.

click the program 🔗👉🏻 www.uu.nl/en/events/co...

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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Feb 3

CRG Director @kvlassen.bsky.social will deliver a talk on “ The transformations of contemporary wars and the role played by researchers" ( Lecture in French).

🗓️When: Feb. 11, 2025
🕒Time : 15H00-17H00 (GMT) +1 CET
📍Place : Salle des conférences (FSEG, Bamako)

#Mali #Africa #conflictresearch

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Koen Vlassenroot @kvlassen.bsky.social · Jan 31

With @judithverweijen.bsky.social I wrote this comment on why the Congo crisis extends beyonds 'conflict minerals'. (version française en dessous de la version angles) www.egmontinstitute.be/congo-crisis...

Congo crisis extends beyond ‘conflict minerals’ - Egmont Institute

On Sunday night, the Congolese rebel group M23 and the Rwandan army invaded Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The fall of Goma […]

www.egmontinstitute.be

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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Jan 29

📣📜New Opinion piece on Congo crisis. (In Dutch)

✅"The Congo crisis extends beyond 'conflict minerals’" by @judithverweijen.bsky.social and @kvlassen.bsky.social Vlassenroot.
Read the full article 🔗 www.mo.be/opinie/de-co...

#DRCongo #Goma #conflict #minerals #opinion

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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Jan 23

🔎 Learn More About One of the Projects Led by the Conflict Research Group!
(🧵 a thread)
✅ INSECURE LIVELIHOODS SERIES
We offer open-access reports and analyses on violent conflicts in Eastern Congo.

🔗Access all the reports here: 👉🏻https://www.gicnetwork.be/insecure-livelihoods-series/

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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Jan 14

🚨 REMINDER: Vacancy! Two sandwich PhD Scholarships
Tomorrow ( Jan. 15( is the last day to submit applications for our vacancy! Be part of our team.

The Conflict Research Group (CRG) offers 2 PhD sandwich scholarships in partnership with a university from the Global South.

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Conflict Research Group @crg-ugent.bsky.social · Dec 30

📖" Good Soldiers Don’t Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence"
🖋️ Author: Megan MacKenzie
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...