Research
Peace and Conflict Studies
Main research or teaching areas:
- Intra-state wars
- Armed conflicts and natural resources
- Violence against civilians and political violence
- Spatial-temporal analysis and conflict mapping
Current research and teaching:
My research interest focuses on understanding patterns of violence against civilians during conflicts, with an emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa. I am particularly interested in the spatial-temporal dynamics of violence and the location and extraction of natural resources.
My PhD project at Lund University aims to understand how the growing threat of international prosecutions for atrocity crimes impact the behaviour that state actors and transnational extractive corporations adopt towards civilians in natural resources-rich conflict zones.
The project will combine an experimental large-N analysis at the micro-level with comparative case studies to uncover the possible transformative effects of international criminal justice on dynamics of violence.
Introduction
I am a doctoral student with a Bachelor in European Studies and a Master in International Security.