Dr. Lotje de Vries

Associate

Dr. Lotje de Vries

  • Short CV

    • Since 10/2016: University docent at the Wageningen University

    • 2014 - 2016: Postdoctoral research fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs, Research Project C10 - Governing people's safety in areas of extremely limited statehood (South Sudan and the Central African Republic), SFB 700

    • Education: PhD Wageningen University (2012); Sociology and Anthropology of Development

    Profil

    Current Research

    • State-building in everyday practice

    • Borders and borderlands

    • state-society relations in (post-) conflict settings

    Countries and Regions

    • South Sudan

    • Central African Republic

    • Horn of Africa

    • West Africa

    Dr. Lotje de Vries

    Associate

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    Blog Article | 08/2015

    Talking about War Makes it more Likely. Look at South Sudan

    This text discusses that Peacemaking interventions need to shift from trying to arrange a power-sharing deal towards looking at how people in largely peaceful areas imagine that they can manage their relationships, outside the framework of the civil war entirely.

    Mareike Schomerus

    Security Dialogue | 06/2014

    Improvising Border Security: ‘A Situation of Security Pluralism’ along South Sudan’s Borders with the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    This article compares two cases of securitization along South Sudan’s border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    Mareike Schomerus

    Research Project | 01/01/2014 - 31/12/2017

    Governing People's Safety in Areas of Extremely Limited Statehood: South Sudan and the Central African Republic

    Why do some areas of limited statehood produce security while others are fraught with persistent insecurity? This research project focuses on areas where state presence is limited and where other local and external non-state actors are involved in providing security to citizens. By developing a micro-perspective on local arenas of security provision in South Sudan and the Central African Republic, the project seeks to understand what explains the differences in effective security provision in areas of limited statehood.
    DFG, CRC 700, 2014-2017

    Conference | 06/04/2017 - 07/04/2017

    Discontinuities Disrupted: Why Rebellions, Politics and Interventions Reinforce Old Patterns of Governance in the Central African Republic

    Illegalism, Violence, and State Avoidance in Libya, Chad and Central African Republic, University of Oxford, Oxford Organisers: All Souls College, University of Oxford Dr. Tim Glawion (Speaker), Dr. Lotje de Vries (Speaker)

    Other | 04/07/2016

    The three most failed? Differing Security Dynamics in South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Somalia

    The three most failed? Differing Security Dynamics in South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Somalia, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut, Freiburg Organisers: Arnold Bergstraesser Institute Dr. Lotje de Vries (Speaker), Dr. Tim Glawion (Speaker)

    Workshop | 19/06/2015 - 20/06/2015

    Anchoring the Mission: External military interventions and local embedding in South Sudan and the Central African Republic

    Transnationalizing Clientelism: External Governance and Informality in Areas of Limited Statehood, Berlin Organisers: Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 "Governance in areas of limited statehood" Dr. Lotje de Vries (Speaker), Dr. Tim Glawion (Speaker)

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