Conflict, peace and security

Promoting Climate Change Adaptation in a context of multiple crises in Burkina Faso: The role of civil servants

Research project The project aims at identifying and studying the potentialities for the civil servants to promote climate change adaptation and sustainable development within a context of overlapping crises. The climate crisis affects the livelihood of millions of p ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Burkina Faso Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: University Joseph KI-Zerbo (UJKZ), Burkina Faso Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS), Burkina Faso École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France Project code: 24-03-KU Total grant: 10,333,383 DKK

VUCCA: Vulnerability and Climate Change Adaptation and in Conflict-Affected Regions: The Case of Northern Uganda

Research project What problem is VUCCA addressing? Extreme climate events and unpredictable weather patterns are affecting farmers around the globe, especially smallholders who do not have many resources to adapt to those changes. If dealing with climate change wa ...

Period: 2023-06-1 to 2028-05-31 Countries: Uganda Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Gulu University (GU), Uganda Tree Talk Plus, Uganda Project code: 23-09-KU Total grant: 10,000,000 DKK

Myanmar: Climate Actions, Conflict and Peacebuilding

Research project This research project (MyClimate) explores how climate change interventions affect and are affected by existing conflict dynamics over natural resources and identity politics in six of Myanmar’s contested ethnic areas (Kachin, Chin, Mon, Naga, Pa-O, ... First year report One objective of MyClimate is to produce new empirical knowledge on how communities in Myanmar perceive and cope with the effects of climate change during a time of profound crisis. Another objective is to explore how different a ...

Period: 2021-12-1 to 2026-11-30 Countries: Myanmar Lead institution: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Partner institutions: Enlightened Myanmar Research (EMR), Myanmar Yangon University (UY), Myanmar Project code: 20-05-DIIS Total grant: 12,000,000 DKK

Peacebuilding, Public Authority, and Forests in Myanmar

Research project The project seeks to understand how authority is produced through the governance of land, natural resources, and people in areas of prolonged armed conflict and contested statehood. It contributes to wider debates about the impact of natural resourc ...

Period: 2020-12-1 to 2025-11-30 Countries: Myanmar Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Trans National Institute (TNI), Netherlands Chulalongkorn University (CU), Thailand Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN), Myanmar Kawthoolei Forestry Department (KFD), Myanmar Project code: 19-09-KU Total grant: 11,999,711 DKK

Including Pastoralism in Community Forests, Tanzania

Research project Pastoralist and Agropastoralist (PAP)-farmer conflicts in Tanzania appear to be increasing. These conflicts cause distress and loss of assets and lives, including deaths, disabilities, the killing of livestock in addition to the destruction of crops, ... Midterm report WP1: The political ecology of PAP and forestry in Tanzania PhD Student: Benezet Rwelengera: 2Publications drafted (i) Pastoral-Normativity and Identities in the Media: A Decolonial Reading of Newspapers’ Portrayal of Pastoralism ...

Period: 2020-03-1 to 2025-02-28 Countries: Tanzania Lead institution: Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania Partner institutions: Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy (MNMA), Tanzania University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Project code: 19-12-TAN Total grant: 11,998,945 DKK

(Counter-)Piracy Infrastructures in the Gulf of Guinea (COPIGoG)

Research project Counterpiracy engagements in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) begin from the assumption that counterpiracy leads to a reduction of piracy. Yet despite more than 15 years of continued counterpiracy efforts, the GoG is the world’s number one piracy hotspot wit ...

Period: 2022-04-1 to 2024-09-30 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Centre for Maritime Law and Security (CEMLAWS), Ghana Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Stakeholder Democracy Network, Nigeria Project code: 21-M07-KU Total grant: 4,897,562 DKK

Domestic Security Implications of UN Peacekeeping – D-SIP

Research project Participation of developing countries in institutions of global governance is key to the promotion of peace, security and stability. This project investigates links between UN peacekeeping contributions, domestic security provision and drivers of sta ... Midterm report: While COVID-19 slowed down progress of the project during 2020, pace picked up again during 2021. Fieldwork was carried out, and second drafts of articles for a special issue of Contemporary Journal of African Studies (CJAS), a U ...

Period: 2018-08-1 to 2024-07-31 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Partner institutions: Danish Institute Against Torture (DIGNITY), Denmark Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Ghana University of Ghana (UG), Ghana Project code: 17-05-DIIS Total grant: 9,943,996 DKK

Access-Authority Nexus in Farmer-Herder Conflicts

Research project The ‘Access-authority nexus in farmer-herder conflicts’ (AAN) project investigates the dynamic processes of formation and erosion of access, identities and authority in spatial and historical perspectives. Through a theoretical lens guided by politic ...

Period: 2019-07-1 to 2024-03-31 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana Partner institutions: University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Ghana University of Development Studies (UDS), Ghana University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Project code: 18-14-GHA Total grant: 11,689,232 DKK

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