Social Resilience, Gendered Dynamics, and Local Peace in Protracted Conflicts
About
The ResilienceBuilding project studies the causes and consequences of civilian agency for self-protection and violence prevention in contexts characterised by civil war, communal conflict, local peacebuilding, and international peacekeeping. Our research streams integrate climate change, gender equality, and local-national conflict linkages into peacebuilding research.
The project is led by Professor Jana Krause at the University of Oslo. The team pursues empirical multi-method research in South Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya, and the Central African Republic.
NEWS
3 December 2025, Nairobi and online: Research-Policy Dialogue Forum on Gender, Peace and Security: Resistance and Resilience. Program here.
1-3 December 2025, Nairobi: Workshop on Gender, Peace and Security: Resistance and Resilience brings together 38 scholars and researchers from African, European and American universities and research institutes. See the program here.
Doctoral student Imrana Buba has been awarded the 2026 Kenneth Boulding Award for his outstanding paper, titled ‘Collective Action Capacity and Civilian Compliance in Civil War: Insights from Nigeria’.
Publications
Latest
Bellini, C., Sauter, M. 2025. Humanitarian Nationalism During Autocratic Disaster Governance: The Politicization of the Earthquake Response in Türkiye. St Comp Int Dev
Krause, Jana, Kathleen Klaus and Marika Miner. Can Peacebuilding Strengthen Social Resilience to Communal Violence? Evidence from Kenya (Preprint).
Krause, Jana, Juan Masullo, Emily Paddon Rhoads and Jennifer Welsh (eds). 2023. Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. Oxford University Press.
Buba, Imrana 2023. Civilian Protection Payment and the Escalation of Violence against Civilians in Northwestern Nigeria. Global Studies Quarterly, 3:2.