Researchers

Adama, Onyanta, Researcher

Subject areas: Urban Governance, place, informal actors, informal solid waste management, recycling, Kaduna
Geographical area: Nigeria
Cluster: Urban

Adolfo, Eldridge, Researcher

Subject areas: Peacebuilding, Mediation, Conflict Minerals, War Economies, Economic Actors in Conflicts, Rebels, Militia, Youth, ex-Combatants, Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR), Security Sector Reform (SSR), Political Parties, Election Violence, Liberation and Post-liberation Movements, Democratic Transformation, Hybrid formal/informal forms of Governance.
Geographical areas: Zimbabwe, Angola, Uganda, South Africa
Cluster: Conflict

Byerley, Andrew, Nordic Researcher (Sweden)

Subject areas: Urban planning and development; regimes of governmentality; power relations in colonial and post-colonial urban Africa.
Geographical areas: Uganda, Namibia
Cluster: Urban

Bereketeab, Redie, Researcher

Subject areas: Political and development sociology: state, nation, nationalism, identity, conflict, governance and development
Geographical areas: the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan)
Cluster: Conflict

Ehrenpreis, Dag, Coordinating Editor, NAI Forum

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Engström, Linda, Researcher

Subject areas: large scale land acquisitions, biofuel production
Geographical areas: Tanzania
Cluster: Rural/Agrarian

Eriksson Baaz, Maria , Senior Researcher

Subject areas: Gender and war; masculinity and militarism; gender and defence and police reform in post conflict contexts; postcolonial theory; diaspora studies, with focus on the African Diaspora.
Geographical areas: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda
Cluster: Conflict

Eriksson Skoog,Gun, Policy och Research Analyst

Subject Areas:  Market Development, Agriculture, Post-Conflict, Liberia
Geographical areas: Liberia, Tanzania
Cluster: Conflict

Fellesson, Måns, Researcher

Subject areas: development and challenges in research and higher education systems, poverty and higher education and research, academic mobility and academic careers
Geographical areas: Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia
Cluster: Global

Gelot (formerly Bergholm,) Linnéa, Researcher

Subject areas:
Geographical areas: Sudan, Libya, Ethiopia
Cluster: Conflict

Gelot, Ludwig, Researcher

Subject areas: conflict analysis, conflict resolution, natural resources management, transitional justice and human security.
Cluster: Conflict

Havnevik, Kjell, Senior Researcher & Cluster Leader, Rural/Agrarian Cluster

Subject areas: globalisation, international financial institutions and development assistance, rural livelihoods, rural development, natural resource governance, research supervision, education and information.
Geographical areas: Tanzania, East and Southern Africa
Cluster: Rural/Agrarian

Hårsmar, Mats, Cluster Leader, Globalization Cluster

Subject areas: Factors explaining movements into poverty; poverty and growth; poverty and Foreign Direct Investments.
Geographical areas:
Cluster: Global

Käihkö, Ilmari, Ph.D. Candidate

Subject areas: insurgencies and political violence, contemporary warfare, strategy, conflict resolution, peace negotiations. ex-combatants, informal (militarized) networks in post-conflict societies, African hip hop music and youth culture.
Geographical areas: Central Africa: Chad, Central African Republic, East Africa: Tanzania, West Africa: Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire
Cluster: Conflict

Malmström, Frederika Maria, Researcher

Subject areas: MENA region (Middle East and Northern Africa), politics, violence, conflict, gender, agency, body and sexuality.
Geographical areas: Egypt and North Africa
Cluster: Conflict

Matambalya, Francis, Senior Researcher

Subject areas: inter­national trade and economic diplomacy, including regional integration and development co-operation between the European Union (EU) and Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries.
Geographical areas: Tanzania, Kenya
Cluster: Global

Millstein,Marianne, Researcher

Subject Areas: Urban governance and politics, civil society and social movements, housing, Cape Town
Geographical area: South Africa
Cluster: Urban

Oestigaard, Terje, Nordic Researcher (Norway)

Subject areas: Archaeology and anthropology: rituals and religion, water studies and political uses of cultural heritage
Geographical areas: Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda
Cluster: Rural/Agrarian

Román, Lisa, Research and Policy Analyst

Subject areas: Institutional change, international corporations, private sector development, African continent
Geographical areas:
Cluster: Globalization, Trade and Regional Integration 

Sjögren, Anders, Researcher

Subject areas: Comparative political economy. Land. Citizenship. State-society relations.
Geographical areas: Kenya, Uganda
Cluster: Conflict

Söderberg Kovacs, Mimmi, Researcher

Subject areas: civil wars, non-state armed groups, conflict resolution, peace processes, durable peace, democratisation, SSR, electoral violence, rebel-to-party transformations.
Geographical areas: Liberia, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Cluster: Conflict

Söderström, Johanna, Researcher

Subject areas: Synergies between peacebuilding and democratization; the role of ex-combatants in politics; conditioning factors of political reintegration of ex-combatants; policy feedback and the creation of politics as a result of policy design/implementation, such as DDR; Liberia and Africa; electoral politics; electoral violence and fear; political sociology; methodology; focus groups.
Geographical areas: West Africa: Sierra Leone, Liberia
Cluster: Conflict

Teppo Björnsdotter, Annika, Senior Researcher and Cluster Leader, Urban Cluster

Subject areas: Postapartheid city; Cape Town; Urban inclusions and exclusions, categories and boundaries; Social engineering and the urban space; Race, class and ethnicity; 'Poor white problem'; Public spaces; Sacred spaces, traditional religion and new religious movements; Local appropriations of neoliberalism.
Geographical area: South Africa
Cluster: Urban

Themnér (formerly Nilsson,) Anders, Researcher

Subject areas: Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants (DDR); ex-combatant violence; informal military networks; conflict resolution;
Geographical areas: Liberia; Republic of Congo; Sierra Leone; West Africa; Zambezi River Basin.
Cluster: Conflict

Trovalla (formerly Andersson,) Ulrika, Researcher

Subject areas: Urban Africa, infrastructure, landscape, uncertainty, conflict, religion, ethnicity, and anthropology.  
Geographical area: Nigeria
Cluster: Urban

Utas, Mats, Senior Researcher and Cluster Leader, Conflict Cluster

Subject areas: political informality, network analysis, conflict, war, rebel movements and militia, youth, ex-combatants, gender, media, election violence, African cities, urban informality, poverty, alternative forms of governance, transnational businessmen.
Geographical areas: West Africa: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Mali + Horn of Africa: Somalia
Cluster: Conflict

Virtanen, Tea , Nordic Researcher (Finland)

Subject areas: pastoral societies, local expressions of Islamic religiosity, rural-urban dynamics, popular conceptualization of indigeneity
Geographical areas: West and Central Africa, Cameroon.
Cluster: Rural/Agrarian

Åkesson, Lisa , Researcher

Subject areas: Transnational migration, remittances, migration policies, migration and development, return migration, socio-economic inequality, diaspora practices, multiculturalism, culture of migration, human trafficking.
Geographical areas: Cape Verde, Angola.
Cluster: Global