2014 - 2016: Postdoctoral research fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs, Research Project C10 - Governing people's safety in areas of extremely limited statehood (South Sudan and the Central African Republic), SFB 700
Education: PhD Wageningen University (2012); Sociology and Anthropology of Development
This text discusses that Peacemaking interventions need to shift from trying to arrange a power-sharing deal towards looking at how people in largely peaceful areas imagine that they can manage their relationships, outside the framework of the civil war entirely.
Why do some areas of limited statehood produce security while others are fraught with persistent insecurity? This research project focuses on areas where state presence is limited and where other local and external non-state actors are involved in providing security to citizens. By developing a micro-perspective on local arenas of security provision in South Sudan and the Central African Republic, the project seeks to understand what explains the differences in effective security provision in areas of limited statehood. DFG, CRC 700, 2014-2017
Illegalism, Violence, and State Avoidance in Libya, Chad and Central African Republic, University of Oxford, Oxford
Organisers: All Souls College, University of Oxford
Dr. Tim Glawion (Speaker), Dr. Lotje de Vries (Speaker)
The three most failed? Differing Security Dynamics in South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Somalia, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut, Freiburg
Organisers: Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
Dr. Lotje de Vries (Speaker), Dr. Tim Glawion (Speaker)
Transnationalizing Clientelism: External Governance and Informality in Areas of Limited Statehood, Berlin
Organisers: Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 "Governance in areas of limited statehood"
Dr. Lotje de Vries (Speaker), Dr. Tim Glawion (Speaker)
