The ResilienceBuilding Project focuses on the causes and consequenes of civilian agency of self-protection and violence prevention in contexts characterized by civil war, communal conflict, local peacebuilding, and international peacekeeping actors.

One research stream analyses the gender dimensions of social resilience and peacebuilding. A second one engages with the climate change, conflict and peacebuilding nexus to better understand vulnerability and building resilience. A third stream examines linkages between local and national peace processes and implications in variation in violence against civilians and peacebuilding success.

The research team conducts field research in Nigeria, Kenya, South Sudan and the CAR. The team brings together researchers who together implement multi-method approaches, combining in-depth interviewing and ethnographic observation with event data analysis, survey research, and archival work.