Social Resilience, Gendered Dynamics, and Local Peace in Protracted Conflicts
About
The ResilienceBuilding project studies the causes and consequences of civilian agency for self-protection and violence prevention in contexts characterised by civil war, communal conflict, local peacebuilding, and international peacekeeping. Our research streams integrate climate change, gender equality, and local-national conflict linkages into peacebuilding research.
The project is led by Professor Jana Krause at the University of Oslo. The team pursues empirical multi-method research in South Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya, and the Central African Republic.
NEWS
Call for papers: “Gender, Peace and Security: Resistance and Resilience”. Workshop at the BIEA in Nairobi, 1-3 December. Application deadline: 13 August.
Doctoral student Imrana Buba conducted a resilience-building workshop in Maiduguri with 22 NGO and UN staff, as part of his research on how civilians shape resilience interventions in conflict-affected Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe states in Northeastern Nigeria.
Publications
Latest
Bellini, C., Sauter, M. 2025. Humanitarian Nationalism During Autocratic Disaster Governance: The Politicization of the Earthquake Response in Türkiye. St Comp Int Dev
Krause, Jana, Kathleen Klaus and Marika Miner. Can Peacebuilding Strengthen Social Resilience to Communal Violence? Evidence from Kenya (Preprint).
Krause, Jana, Juan Masullo, Emily Paddon Rhoads and Jennifer Welsh (eds). 2023. Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. Oxford University Press.
Buba, Imrana 2023. Civilian Protection Payment and the Escalation of Violence against Civilians in Northwestern Nigeria. Global Studies Quarterly, 3:2.