REAL project member Eric Kioko published an article on “Conflict Resolution and Crime Surveillance in Kenya: Local Peace Committees and Nyumba Kumi” in Africa Spectrum. The article describes local peace committees and Nyumba Kumi institutional innovations for conflict resolution and crime surveillance in the Kenyan context and questions the effectiveness of hybrid governance arrangements. Finding reveal […]
Turning Conflict into Coexistence
PhD Thesis by REAL ESR Eric Kioko Published Online How do formerly violent conflicts develop into peaceful relations? How does competition turn into cooperation, facilitating changing land use? In his recently published PhD thesis REAL researcher Eric Kioko investigates these questions for the Maasai/Kikuyu agro-pastoral borderlands of Maiella and Enoosupukia in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Despite […]
Geert van der Plas
Position: Early-stage researcher Address: Limnology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium Email: geert.vanderplas@ugent.be Website: UGent webpage LinkedIn profile Supervisor: Dirk Verschuren Bio: Hi, my name is Geert. I am attached to REAL as an ESR, based at Ghent University. I will be reconstructing past landscape and environmental changes in […]