This is an overview of colleagues who have been conducting research on the nexus of resources, governance, and conflict. These colleagues have been part of the (rather informal) Working Group “Nature – Resources – Conflict” and occasionally contributing to this blog.
We are happy to add everyone who is working on these issues in academia and beyond. To become added and for profile updates, please e-mail us: info@resources-and-conflict.org
| Melissa Bayer University of Münster, Institute for Geography, Doctoral Researcher |
| Research areas: (Urban) Political Ecology, (hydraulic) citizenship, hydro-social territories, right to water, everyday practices, informality |
| Geographic area: Latin America |
| Contact & further info |
| Shahrazad Far Center for Development Research Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF) of the University of Bonn |
| Research areas: Socio-technical transitions; Social practices & Energy transition |
| Geographic area: West Africa |
| Contact & further info |
| Jan Grabek Research Fellow and PhD candidate, Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatine |
| Research areas: Critical Peacebuilding theory and political economy of statebuilding praxis; Structural development, systems theory and land change sciences; Human security implications of aid and trade; forestry and agriculture |
| Geographic area: Sub-Sahara Africa |
| Contact & further info |
| Anne Hennings Research Fellow at the University of Muenster |
| Research areas: Agrarian Transformation and Sustainable Development, Struggles over Land and (extractive) Resources, Peacebuilding and conflict transformation, Non-state armed actors, Social movements |
| Contact & further info |
| Marie Müller-Koné Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) |
| Research areas: Resource conflicts, ethnicized resource conflicts, global-local translations, frontiers, resource governance |
| Geographic area: Africa (Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya) |
| Contact & further info |
| Beril Ocaklı IRI THESys, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| Research areas: Resource conflict and cooperation in coupled social-ecological systems, institutional economics for the study of behavior in mining transactions, gold mining |
| Geographic area: primary focus Central Asia (specifically Kyrgyzstan) but interested in case studies across the globe |
| Contact & further info |
| Julia Renner University of Koblenz and Landau |
| Research areas: Water Shortages and Low-Key Conflict Levels; Resource Conflicts |
| Geographic areas: Eastern African Community and SSA |
| Contact & further info |
| Sina Schlimmer Sciences Po Bordeaux/Les Afriques dans le Monde (Africa Studies Centre), France |
| Research areas: land policies, land deals, large-scale farming, rural-urban nexus, state-building, public policy analysis |
| Geographic areas: Tanzania, Kenya, Benin |
| Contact & further info |
| Kristina von Stosch Universidad Nur, Santa Cruz, Bolivia & GIZ German International Cooperation, research fellow and advisor |
| Research areas: Transformation of Resource Conflicts, Land Conflicts, Indigenous People, Territory and Cultural Identity |
| Geographic area: Amazon Basin, Bolivian Lowlands |
| Contact & further info |
| Linda Wallbott Institute of Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt |
| Research areas: Global Governance, especially Global Environmental Governance (climate/REDD+ and biodiversity/ABS); Sustainability: Politics and conflicts around green transformations, especially related to land use and energy (GreeTS); Norms in international and transnational politics; International negotiations, especially UNFCCC and CBD |
| Geographic areas: Southeastasia, especially Vietnam and Bangladesh; Central America, especially Costa Rica |
| Contact & further info |
| Sascha Werthes, Trier University |
| Research areas: Human Security and Resource Governance; Transformation of Former War-Economies; International Crisis and Conflict Management; Security-Development Nexus; United Nations |
| Geographic area: (Subsahara) Africa |
| Contact & further info |