GIC NETWORK - Key Persons
Emmanuel Klimis is a member of the Research Centre for Politics (CReSPo) at Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles. He is the executive coordinator of GRAPAX, an inter-university research network on peace and security in Africa, and of the ACROPOLIS group on Governance for Development. He is also an expert in university development cooperation conception, management, and evaluation. His research interests are focused on development assistance in post-conflict and fragile contexts, with an extensive field experience in several countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. He has also been the manager of the programme of institutional support of ARES with Burundi for the last 10 years. Emmanuel Klimis is an invited lecturer in Université de Liège (CUDCI, university certificate in development and international cooperation) and UCLouvain (in charge of the module dedicated to Development Cooperation in the training programme preparing the public examination for entry to the diplomatic service). He also teaches in and is the head of the BA programme in Trade and Sustainable Development in ISES/HE2B university college, Brussels.
Koen Vlassenroot - Political and Social Sciences - Department of Conflict and Development Studies / CRG - His area of expertise includes conflict dynamics in Central Africa, with a specific focus on public authority, armed groups, resource governance and land issues. He currently conducts research on networks of conflict, politics of resistance and armed groups in eastern DRC. He is also a visiting professor at the LSE and investigator of a number of international research projects. Keywords: Civil war, armed groups, resources, governance.
Christian Lund is a Professor of Development, Resource Management, and Governance, at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on property, local politics and state formation; in particular socio-legal processes of conflict over land and natural resources. He is the author of Law, Power and Politics in Niger: Land Struggles and the Rural Code (Lit Verlag/Transaction Publishers) and Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (Cambridge University Press). He currently is working on a book manuscript, Nine-Tenths of the Law. Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia.
Eva Brems - Faculty of Law - Human Rights Centre - Prof. Dr. Eva Brems joined the Ghent University Law Faculty in September 2000 as the first holder of the then newly created chair of Human Rights Law. Before that, she studied law at the University of Namur (Bachelor, 1989), the University of Leuven (Master, 1992) and Harvard University (LL.M., 1995). She was a PhD Researcher at the University of Leuven (1995 - 1999) and a Lecturer at Maastricht University (1999 - 2000). At Ghent University, she founded the Human Rights Centre. Eva's research interests cover most areas of human rights law in European and international law as well as in Belgian and comparative law, with a particular emphasis on the protection of the rights of non-dominant groups and individuals. She has a keen interest in multi- and interdisciplinary research. Eva has been an activist in the board of several Belgian human rights NGOs, including as the Chair of the Flemish section Amnesty International (2006 - 2010), and she was briefly active in politics as a Member of the Belgian Federal Chamber of Representatives (2010 - 2014).
Job Titles:
- Director of the Centre for EU Studies
Jan Orbie - Political and Social Sciences - CEUS - Prof. Dr. J. Orbie is the Director of the Centre for EU Studies. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Ghent University in Belgium, where he lectures several courses in the Master for EU Studies at Ghent University, including Theories of European Integration, European External Policies, and EU Trade Politics. His research focuses on the international policies of the EU, in particular EU trade and development policies. He is the author of numerous chapters, articles and edited books on EU trade politics and development, the EU͛s global social policy, and EU democracy promotion. He is also supervising several research projects in the field of EU external relations. Prof. Jan Orbie is Erasmus coordinator of the Department of Political Science, and a member of the Research Council of Ghent University.
He is a doctor in sociology and laureate of the University of Fez, today he is Professor of sociology at the Faculty of letters and Humans Sciences in Rabat after long career split between the Ministry of Housing, Urban Planning and policy of the city 5 years and the Corporation Holding Alomrane-Meknes 13 years. He published the book titled "The local power between the tribe and the party: Sociological study of rural elites" in 2013 and several other articles in national and international journals.
He is actually the Head of the department of sociology and he is running a Master of Urban planning, Social and Spatial Transformations and Social Movements. Also, He is a member of ERSA Research team at the university of Mohammed V. He is currently working on urban policies and socio-spatial inequalities and social movements.
Job Titles:
- Director of the SSRC 's Understanding Violent Conflict
- Social Science Research Council - Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, USA
Tatiana Carayannis is director of the SSRC's Understanding Violent Conflict (UVC) program and director of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF). She also has a visiting appointment at the London School of Economics and Political Science's Africa Centre and Department of International Development. Carayannis leads the Council's China-Africa Knowledge Project, convenes the DRC Affinity Group, a small brain trust of leading Congo scholars and analysts, and is a research director of two international research collaborations: the Conflict Research Programme and the Centre for Public Authority and International Development (CPAID) based at the LSE. A scholar of UN peace operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Central Africa more generally, her current research focuses on war networks and the shaping of public authority in Central Africa, and the impact of interventions for justice and security on local communities, including those displaced. A seasoned researcher, Carayannis has written widely on political mobilization, rebel governance (the MLC rebel movement in particular), global-local dynamics of violence, international justice, democratic processes and elections, UN peacekeeping and preventive diplomacy, and on the agenda-setting role of UN human rights and development ideas. She is frequently invited for press interviews. Before joining the SSRC, she directed a research and publication program on the intellectual history of the United Nations at The City University of New York's Ralph Bunche Institute for International Affairs. In 1998, she served as rapporteur for the UN secretary-general's Resource Group on the DRC. Her first book (coauthored) is UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice (Indiana University Press, 2005) and her second (coedited) is Making Sense of the Central African Republic (Zed Books, 2015). She is currently completing two book projects: Pioneers of Peacekeeping: ONUC 1960-1964; Anatomy of Rebellion: JP Bemba and the Mouvement de Liberation du Congo. Both are scheduled for publication in 2019-2020. A fifth book, The Third UN (with Thomas G. Weiss) is currently in the early stages. She holds a PhD in political science (international relations and comparative politics) from The City University of New York Graduate Center, and an MA in political science from New York University. She was a USIP Jennings Randolph Fellow and Mellon Fellow for Security and Humanitarian Action and has lectured at The City University of NY, the University of Edinburgh, Columbia University, and Adelphi University. Carayannis is fluent in French and Greek, grew up in Central and West Africa, and travels frequently to the region.
Job Titles:
- Professor in Development Anthropology
Tim Allen is professor in Development Anthropology. He has expertise in the fields of complex emergencies, ethnic conflict, forced migration, local conception of health and healing, East Africa (especially Sudan, Uganda and Kenya), development aid and agencies and ethics of aid.
Sami Zemni - Political and Social Sciences - Department of Conflict and Development Studies / MENARG - His area of expertise is politics within the Middle East and North Africa region, with special reference to political Islam. He focuses mainly on developments in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, democratization in the Arab World as well as conflict in the Arab world. He also writes on issues of migration, integration, racism and Islamophobia. Keywords: political change (Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco,...), conflict and contentious politics in the Arab world,social movements, Islamophobia , multiculturalism and racism, political theory & philosophy.
Job Titles:
- Professor at the Department of Criminology
Tom Vander Beken - Faculty of Law - IRCP - Tom Vander Beken is professor at the department of Criminology, Criminal law and Social law of the faculty of Law and director of the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy. His research focuses primarily on the reaction (of the criminal justice system) to serious forms of crime with a special focus on the impact on vulnerable groups (mentally disordered persons, people without legal residence...)