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• [Publication] Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hedging Loyalties in (Un)Governed Space of the Lake Chad Basin

  • Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hedging Loyalties in (Un)Governed Space of the Lake Chad Basin
  • This article examines the dynamics of interactions between civilians, armed groups, and the state in frontline states. Drawing on a 6-year ethnographic study of armed conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin region, the article argues that civilian loyalty becomes multiple and overlapping when the roles of the state and armed groups become indistinguishable in insecure spaces. A range of actions and outcomes can be observed from civilians’ navigating strategies: individual and collective ba...

• [Publication] Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hedging Loyalties in (Un)Governed Space of the Lake Chad Basin

  • Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hedging Loyalties in (Un)Governed Space of the Lake Chad Basin
  • This article examines the dynamics of interactions between civilians, armed groups, and the state in frontline states. Drawing on a 6-year ethnographic study of armed conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin region, the article argues that civilian loyalty becomes multiple and overlapping when the roles of the state and armed groups become indistinguishable in insecure spaces. A range of actions and outcomes can be observed from civilians’ navigating strategies: individual and collective ba...

• [Publication] Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hedging Loyalties in (Un)Governed Space of the Lake Chad Basin

  • Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hedging Loyalties in (Un)Governed Space of the Lake Chad Basin
  • This article examines the dynamics of interactions between civilians, armed groups, and the state in frontline states. Drawing on a 6-year ethnographic study of armed conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin region, the article argues that civilian loyalty becomes multiple and overlapping when the roles of the state and armed groups become indistinguishable in insecure spaces. A range of actions and outcomes can be observed from civilians’ navigating strategies: individual and collective ba...

• [Publication] Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hedging Loyalties in (Un)Governed Space of the Lake Chad Basin

  • Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hedging Loyalties in (Un)Governed Space of the Lake Chad Basin
  • This article examines the dynamics of interactions between civilians, armed groups, and the state in frontline states. Drawing on a 6-year ethnographic study of armed conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin region, the article argues that civilian loyalty becomes multiple and overlapping when the roles of the state and armed groups become indistinguishable in insecure spaces. A range of actions and outcomes can be observed from civilians’ navigating strategies: individual and collective ba...

• [Publication] “We were promised development and all we got is misery” — The influence of petroleum on conflict dynamics in Chad

  • “We were promised development and all we got is misery” — The influence of petroleum on conflict dynamics in Chad
  • BICC brief 41 analyzes the effects of oil production on conflict dynamics in Chad. The authors, Lena Guesnet and Claudia Frank conclude in the study that the goal of the project supported by the World Bank, to foster development in the Central African country has failed miserably.The Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline project was supported by the World Bank as a model to prove that investment in oil can yield positive results in terms of poverty reduction and development. BICC ...

• [Publication] “We were promised development and all we got is misery” — The influence of petroleum on conflict dynamics in Chad

  • “We were promised development and all we got is misery” — The influence of petroleum on conflict dynamics in Chad
  • BICC brief 41 analyzes the effects of oil production on conflict dynamics in Chad. The authors, Lena Guesnet and Claudia Frank conclude in the study that the goal of the project supported by the World Bank, to foster development in the Central African country has failed miserably.The Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline project was supported by the World Bank as a model to prove that investment in oil can yield positive results in terms of poverty reduction and development. BICC ...

• [Publication] “We were promised development and all we got is misery” — The influence of petroleum on conflict dynamics in Chad

  • “We were promised development and all we got is misery” — The influence of petroleum on conflict dynamics in Chad
  • BICC brief 41 analyzes the effects of oil production on conflict dynamics in Chad. The authors, Lena Guesnet and Claudia Frank conclude in the study that the goal of the project supported by the World Bank, to foster development in the Central African country has failed miserably. The Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline project was supported by the World Bank as a model to prove that investment in oil can yield positive results in terms of poverty reduction and development. BICC...

• [Publication] Handlich und gefährlich – Gewehre und Pistolen richten mehr Schaden an als andere konventionelle Waffen. Welt-Sichten 9(20...

  • Handlich und gefährlich – Gewehre und Pistolen richten mehr Schaden an als andere konventionelle Waffen. Welt-Sichten 9(2011).

• [Publication] Handlich und gefährlich – Gewehre und Pistolen richten mehr Schaden an als andere konventionelle Waffen. Welt-Sichten 9(20...

  • Handlich und gefährlich – Gewehre und Pistolen richten mehr Schaden an als andere konventionelle Waffen. Welt-Sichten 9(2011).

• [Project] Armed Groups in the Sahel

  • Regional approaches to dealing with armed groups in the Sahel In the Greater Sahel border regions are frequently hot spots in long running conflicts which are used by non-state armed groups for their benefit, but they are also spaces where people and communities socially, culturally, and economically connect and build important interrelations on different scales. We believe that these border complexes have unique historic and socio-economic features which need to be considered more strongly when...