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Peer Schouten
Primary research areas
Peer Schouten is a senior researcher at DIIS and an associate researcher at the International Peace Information Service in Antwerp, and professor at the Conflict Research Group, Ghent University.
His research focuses on order in conflict, with a focus on the role of roadblocks and transit taxes in conflict and state formation; mineral extraction and conflict economies; and the politics of logistics and infrastructure. He has extensive research experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan.
A former SSRC Conflict Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Peer is the author of Roadblock Politics: the origins of violence in Central Africa (Cambridge University Press).
Current research
Peer Schouten is currently leading a research project on the political economy of checkpoints in conflict, together with the International Center for Tax and Development and the Centre on Armed Groups. Read more about it here.
Peer has over ten years of experience in applying an innovative mix of geospatial and qualitative methods to explore conflict dynamics in challenging settings. Collaborative methods allow local expertise, priorities, and perceptions to co-constitute the research agenda and shape its findings so that they may resonate locally. This approach continues to inspire and offer unique human and academic insights into the complexity of violence, state-making and its contestation, and economical (under)development in some of the world's most interesting and challenging environments.
Research and activites
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Photo/illustration by Maxar Technologies/Google Earth copyright licenseReport2023The political economy of checkpoints in SomaliaPeer Schouten
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Literature Review2023Peer Schouten
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Report2022Lessons from Eastern DRCJudith Verweijen, Peer Schouten & Fergus Simpson
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Article2022By Daniel E. Agbiboa. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2022. 248p. $70.00 cloth, $29.95 paperPeer Schouten
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Book2022the Origins of Violence in Central AfricaPeer Schouten
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Journal Article2022Terrains of resistance at the material edge of the statePeer Schouten & Jan Bachmann
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Book2022Peer Schouten & Jan Bachmann
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Report2021The political economy of checkpoints in South Sudan, ten years after independencePeer Schouten, Ken Matthysen & Thomas Muller
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Journal Article2021Ambiguous rural infrastructure and slippery stabilization in eastern DR CongoPeer Schouten, Judith Verweijen, Saidi Kubuya Batundi & Janvier Murairi
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Journal Article2021Armed checkpoints along key trade routes—not natural resources—are the key to financing rebel groups and insurgencies around the world.Peer Schouten
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Report2021Peer Schouten
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DIIS Working Paper2021New approaches to fragility in the Horn of Africa and SahelPeer Schouten
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Report2021Results of Consultation with transboundary herders, semi-settled herders and settled communities in Ouham Pendé and Western OuhamGuillaume de Brier, Peer Schouten, Peter Mardsen & Dirk Gillebert
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Journal Article2020Geopolitics in the Sudd Marshlands of South SudanPeer Schouten & Jan Bachmann
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Report2020The role of infrastructure in tackling the underlying drivers of fragilityPeer Schouten, C Fantini, G Morgan, S Kumar, T Adeoti, A Reese, S Crosskey & N O'Regan
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DIIS Working Paper2019Supply chains as a new frontline in conflict financing?Peer Schouten
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Journal Article2019Logistics off the beaten pathPeer Schouten, Finn Stepputat & Jan Bachmann
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseBook2019The co-production of logistical and political ordersPeer Schouten, Finn Stepputat & Jan Bachmann
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseReport2019Impact of armed interference & responsible sourcingPeer Schouten, Ken Matthysen & Steven Spittaels
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Journal Article2019a new research agenda on business and peace-buildingPeer Schouten & Jason Miklian
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2019Peer Schouten
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Journal Article2019Peer Schouten & Esther Marijnen
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseReport2018A Conflict MappingPeer Schouten & Fiona Southward
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Brief2023Promoting grassroots conflict transformation in eastern CongoPeer Schouten
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Brief2022The case of eastern DRCPeer Schouten, Judith Verweijen, Fergus Simpson & Pascal Chakirwa Zirimwabagabo
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DIIS Policy Brief2022Climate and conflictPeer Schouten, Judith Verweijen & Fergus Simpson
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Photo/illustration by Cecilie Castor von SpreckelsenDIIS Policy Brief2021Dirty global supply chainsPeer Schouten
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DIIS Policy Brief2021Trine Villumsen Berling, Peer Schouten & Izabela Surwillo
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseDIIS policy brief2020climate-cattle-conflictSigne Marie Cold-Ravnkilde & Peer Schouten