Completed PhD Research Special Chair Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction

A number of PhD candidates have completed their research under supervision of the Special Chair Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction. This page presents an overview of these PhD projects, ordered by date of defence.

Completed PhD research
1 July 14	Rens Twijnstra	On the State of Business: Trade, Entrepreneurship and Real Economic Governance in South Sudan
20 June 2014	Winnie W. Wairimu	Transition or stagnation? Everyday life, food security and recovery in post conflict northern Uganda
11 March 2014	Patrick Milabyo Kyamusugulwa	Community-driven reconstruction in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: capacity building, accountability, power, labour, and ownership
20 January 2014	Lotte Vermeij	"The Bullets Sound Like Music To My Ears" Socialization of Child Soldiers within African Rebel Groups
17 September 2012	Aschale Siyoum	Broken Promises: Food Security Interventions and Rural Livelihoods in Ethiopia
8 May 2012	Annelies Heijmans	Risky encounters: Institutions and interventions in response to recurrent disasters and conflict
30 January 2012	Maliana Serrano	Strengthening institutions or institutionalising weaknesses? Interactions between aid and institutions in Huíla Province, Angola
6 December 2011	Hilde van Dijkhorst	Rural realities between crisis and normality; Livelihood strategies in Angola, 1975 - 2008
27 April 2011	Bram Jansen	Creating space in a ‘naked city’: violence and identity in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya
12 April 2011	Luís Artur	Continuities in Crisis; everyday practices of disaster response and climate change adaptation in Mozambique
20 June 2008	Mathijs van Leeuwen	Partners in peace: discourses and practices of civil-society peacebuilding
18 March 2008	Jeroen Warner	The politics of flood insecurity: Framing contested river management projects
19 December 2006	Eliab Simpungwe	Water, Stakeholders and Common Ground. Challenges for Multi-Stakeholder Platforms in Water Resource Management in South Africa