Programme coordinator: Bruno de Cordier

 

The term ‘interventions’ often brings up association with its narrow sense, i.e. military interventions. In this CRG line of work, however, ‘interventions’ are defined as all extraneous actions that aim to steer and inform social dynamics and modernization, often using the momentum and opportunities shaped by a political and societal crisis or conflict.

With the changing nature and with the hybridization of conflict since the 1988-91 period, these are characterized by a multi-dimensionality which include cultural-anthropologic, humanitarian, economic and indeed also, but certainly not exclusively, military aspects.

Of particular interest in this line of our work are the societal impacts and conflicts that arise from externally-backed development policies, the conflict between declaredly universal development principles and the culturally-particularistic, and the social impact and control of aid economies in crisis areas.

People

• Karen Büscher
• Jeroen Cuvelier
• Bruno De Cordier
• Mary Ann Manahan
• Jolien Tegenbos
• Koen Vlassenroot

Projects

• Humanitarian urbanism: the urban effects of protracted humanitarian intervention in Northern Uganda (contact: Karen Büscher)
• Analyzing conflict mobilities from Uganda’s Nakivale Refugee Settlement(contact: Jolien Tegenbos)
• The politics of return (contact: Koen Vlassenroot)

Past Projects