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Projects - dr.ir. G (Gemma) van der Haar
I am involved with a number of research programmes around conflict, reconstruction and governance, including:
IS Academy Human Security in Fragile States: socio- economic recovery in fragile states;
Grounding Land Governance: land governance and decentralisation in post-conflict settings;
Conflict and mining governance in DRC.
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State and non-state institutions in conflict-affected societies: Who do people turn to for human security?
The debate on fragile states has triggered an interest in how people organize for everyday security and for issues of common interest in the absence... -
Local-level human security in Haiti
How do people cope in the absence of a functioning state? This question is highly relevant to the case of Haiti, where the 2010 earthquake severely... -
Collective action and the State: The politics of post-disaster reconstruction and disaster risk management
This PhD research investigates how local collective actors perceive the processes of interaction with the state around post-disaster reconstruction...