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Koen Vlassenroot

Koen Vlassenroot

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Overview

Koen Vlassenroot is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has concentrated their research primarily in the social sciences. Their work spans multiple intersecting disciplines including sociology and political science, anthropology, and political science and international relations. Additional interests extend into general agricultural and biological sciences as well as infectious diseases.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Cambodian History and Society
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • African History and Culture Studies
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Vlassenroot has published articles in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Refugee Studies
  • Conflict Security and Development
  • Journal of Eastern African Studies
  • Disasters
  • African Studies Review

Some recent publications by Koen Vlassenroot are:

  • "Navigating Social Spaces: Armed Mobilization and Circular Return in Eastern DR Congo" (2020) in the Journal of Refugee Studies
  • "Courses au pouvoir: the struggle over customary capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo" (2020) in the Journal of Eastern African Studies
  • "Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid-19's first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan" (2021) in Disasters
  • "Violent conflict and ethnicity in the Congo: beyond materialism, primordialism and symbolism" (2020) in Conflict Security and Development
  • "Producing democracy in armed violence settings: Elections and citizenship in Eastern DRC" (2022) in the Journal of Civil Society

Vlassenroot has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga
  • Tatiana Carayannis
  • Kasper Hoffmann
  • Godefroid Muzalia
  • Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka

Best Publications

  • KONY'S MESSAGE: A NEW KOINE?THE LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY IN NORTHERN UGANDA

    Ruddy Doom;Koen Vlassenroot

  • The Lord's Resistance Army : myth and reality

    Tim Allen;Koen Vlassenroot

  • Conflict and social transformation in eastern DR Congo

    Koen Vlassenroot;Timothy Raeymaekers

  • State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises: governance without government?

    Timothy Raeymaekers;Ken Menkhaus;Koen Vlassenroot

  • The politics of rebellion and intervention in Ituri:the emergence of a new political complex?

    Koen Vlassenroot;Timothy Raeymaekers

  • Humanitarian presence and urban development: new opportunities and contrasts in Goma, DRC

    Karen Büscher;Koen Vlassenroot

  • Land, migration and conflict in eastern DRC

    Koen Vlassenroot;C Huggins

  • Citizenship, Identity Formation and Conflict in South Kivu: The Case of the Banyamulenge

    Koen Vlassenroot

  • Resources, conflict and governance: A critical review

    Jeroen Cuvelier;Jeroen Cuvelier;Koen Vlassenroot;Nathaniel Olin

  • Kivu’s Intractable Security Conundrum

    Koen Vlassenroot;Timothy Raeymaekers

  • State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises: governance without government?

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  • Armed groups and the exercise of public authority: the cases of the Mayi-Mayi and Raya Mutomboki in Kalehe, South Kivu

    Kasper Hoffmann;Koen Vlassenroot

  • Negotiated peace for extortion: the case of Walikale territory in eastern DR Congo

    Nicholas Garrett;Sylvia Sergiou;Koen Vlassenroot

  • Taxation, Stateness and Armed Groups: Public Authority and Resource Extraction in Eastern Congo

    Kasper Hoffmann;Koen Vlassenroot;Gauthier Marchais

  • Analyzing the Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on Congolese Livelihoods

    J.G.R. Cuvelier;S. van Bockstael;K. Vlassenroot;C. Iguma Wakenge

  • Violence with a purpose. Exploring the functions and meaning of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    R Beneduce;L Jourdan;Timothy Raeymaekers;Koen Vlassenroot

  • THE CITY AS FRONTIER : URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND IDENTITY PROCESSES IN GOMA

    Koen Vlassenroot;Karen Büscher

  • Rebels without borders in the Rwenzori borderland? A biography of the Allied Democratic Forces

    Kristof Titeca;Koen Vlassenroot

  • What happens to youth during and after wars? : a preliminary review of literature on Africa and an assessment of the debate

    K. Peters;P. Richards;K. Vlassenroot

  • New political order in the DR Congo? the transformation of regulation

    Koen Vlassenroot;Timothy Raeymaekers

  • The Emergence of a New Order? Resources and War in Eastern Congo

    Koen Vlassenroot;Hans Romkema

  • Borderlands, Identity and Urban Development: The Case of Goma (Democratic Republic of the Congo):

    Koen Vlassenroot;Karen Büscher

  • Livelihoods, power, and food insecurity: adaptation of social capital portfolios in protracted crises--case study Burundi.

    Thomas G.A. Vervisch;Koen Vlassenroot;Johan Braeckman

  • Doing business out of war: an analysis of the UPDF's presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Koen Vlassenroot;Sandrine Perrot;Jeroen Cuvelier

  • Social Capital and Post‐Conflict Reconstruction in Burundi: The Limits of Community‐based Reconstruction

    Thomas Vervisch;Kristof Titeca;Koen Vlassenroot;Johan Braeckman

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristof Titeca
Kristof Titeca University of Antwerp
Mary Kaldor
Mary Kaldor London School of Economics and Political Science
Alex de Waal
Alex de Waal Tufts University
Nathalie Tocci
Nathalie Tocci Istituto Affari Internazionali

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