Current research projects

Between Big Man Politics and Democratisation: Local Perceptions and Individual Agency in Processes of Electoral Violence
(started in 2012). Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs, Johanna Söderström and Mats Utas

Bokra a7la (Tomorrow is Better): Embodying Political Agency after the Egyptian Revolution
(started in 2012). Maria Frederika Malmström

Conflict and State building in the Horn of Africa
(started in 2010). Redie Bereketeab

Gendering and (Un)Gendering Police Reform: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo
(started in 2010). Maria Eriksson Baaz

Inclusive Development of Agricultural Markets in Post-Conflict Countries, with a Focus on Liberia
(started in 2012). Gun Eriksson Skoog

Multi-Party Politics and Election Violence: Structural and Proximate Challenges Found outside the Electoral Cycle
(started in 2012). Eldridge Adolfo

The African Union (AU) and Civilian Protection
(started in 2011). Linnea Gelot (formerly Bergholm)

The Informal Realities of Peacebuilding - Military Networks and Former Mid-Level Commanders in Post-War Liberia.
(started in 2011). Mats Utas and Anders Themnér (formerly Nilsson)

The Politics of Belonging and Exclusion: Land Rights, Citizenship and Civil Society in Kenya and Uganda
(started in 2010). Anders Sjögren

Modes and Narratives of Mobility and Career Paths among academics (Ph.D. holders) in Africa
(started in 2011). Måns Fellesson

Money from abroad: Migrant remittances and social inequality in a transnational setting
(started in 2010). Lisa Åkesson

Productivity Potentials and Poverty in Relation to Sub-Saharan Agriculture
(started in 2009). Mats Hårsmar

Trading up through regional integration: can a productive capacity-driven strategy provide the answer for the EAC economies?
(started in 2011). Francis Matambalya

Research policy and research practise in the global knowledge economy – a comparative study between different geopolitical settings – the case of East Africa
(started in 2011). Måns Fellesson

Water politics in the Nile basin – emerging land acquisitions and the hydropolitical landscape
(started in 2013). Terje Oestigaard and Mats Hårsmar

Large scale agro investments in Tanzania – impacts on smallholder land access and food security
(started in 2012).  Kjell Havnevik and Linda Engström

Lessons learned from ESIA implementation in Bagamoyo district, Tanzania with special reference to bioenergy
(started in 2006). Kjell Havnevik

To follow cattle or the sheikh? Socio-religious change among the pastoralists in Cameroon
(started in 2010). Tea Virtanen

Rainmaking and Climate Change in Tanzania: Traditions, Rituals and Globalisation
(started  in 2010). Terje Oestigaard

Water politics in the Nile basin – emerging land acquisitions and the hydropolitical landscape
(started in 2013). Terje Oestigaard and Mats Hårsmar

Beyond Poverty: an insight into the informal solid waste recycling sector in Kaduna, Nigeria
(started in 2010). Onyanta Adama-Ajonye

Infrastructure as Divination: Urban life in the Postcolony
(started in 2011). Ulrika Trovalla (formerly Andersson)

Medicine for Uncertain Futures: A Nigerian City in the Wake of a Crisis
(started in 2011). Ulrika Trovalla (formerly Andersson)

The Transforming Post-apartheid City
(started in 2012). Annika Björnsdotter Teppo

Seeking the Good City and the Good Citizen: Colonial and Post-Colonial Governmentality and Urban Planning in Africa.
(started in 2010). Andrew Byerley

Urban governance and politics in South African cities
(started in 2012). Marianne Millstein

Urban imaginaries and socio-economic exclusion
(started in 2012). Onyanta Adama, Andrew Byerley, Ilda Lindell (Associate Researcher) and Mats Utas