Projects
Governance in 'rebellious' society: An ethnography of governance complexes in central and northeast India Ghent University
This project analyses the impact of long-term conflict on local governance in two cases: the secessionist Naga armed struggle (Northeast India) and the Maoist Naxalite conflict (Central India). The aim is to provide a political ethnography of governance in 'rebellious society', by conducting fieldwork in areas where the state and the rebels have been trying to set up governance structures.
Regulating financial products: Product governance and product intervention as new solutions to old problems KU Leuven
Traditionally, the EU regulator has aimed at achieving a high level of customer protection in the financial sector with conduct of business rules for distributors of financial products. In recent years, however, it has increasingly complemented this strategy with product regulation, such as product bans and restrictions (“product interventions”) and product requirements (“product governance”). These rules govern the design, testing, ...
Understanding the changing performance of the European Union in International Environmental and Climate Governance. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Governance of co-operative enterprises under pressure: A multilevel and holistic approach KU Leuven
The co-operative organizational model is one imbued with values: democracy, self-help, selfresponsibility, equity, equality, and solidarity. Co-operatives share a strong distinctive identity relying on internationally-shared principles, translated into specific governance characteristics, among which member ownership and control, and democratic decision-making. Despite their contribution to pluralism on markets, co-operatives still lack ...
Responsive governance and population well-being in later Antiquity (3rd – 5th c.) Ghent University
For governments across the world today, ensuring population well-being is one of their core tasks.
This project wishes to add a historical dimension to this debate by studying population well-being
under the later Roman Empire (3rd-5th c.).
Whereas both individual happiness and the functioning of the later Roman Empire are well-studied
topics, thus far, there has been little overlap between these two fields of ...
Towards a more resilient microbial food safety risk governance framework in society Ghent University
Risk governance, i.e. the identification, assessment, management, and communication of risks, is essential to ensure microbial food safety (MFS) in society. However, current MFS risk governance (MFSRG) frameworks mainly focus on the technical evaluation of risks, while the sociocultural evaluation is often omitted. Therefore, this project aims to elaborate three currently underdeveloped fields of MFSRG, i.e. concern assessment (assessment of ...
Re-conceptualizing the State-Centric Human Rights Regime: Relational Human Rights Responsibility for EU Cooperative Governance Ghent University
Increasingly, cooperative governance – characterized by indivisible cooperation between private and public actors – detrimentally affect our human rights. Consider the recent examples of Borealis and BASF concerning human trafficking in Belgium, implicating the respective companies, as well as governmental authorities. Consider also, problematic use of privately procured artificial intelligence by the EU and its Member States. Scholarship to ...
Global governance through informal intergovernmental institutions. KU Leuven
Scientific research collaboration on the theme : global governance through informal intergovernmental institutions.
Records of Resistance: Militia Governance in the Valley of the Apurímac river during the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict (1980-2000) Ghent University
The project ‘Records of Resistance’ transcends the commonplace victim-perpetrator binary to describe wartime agency by shedding light on the ambiguities of civilian participation in armed conflict. More precisely, it investigates the emergence of the Civil Self-Defence Committees (CADs) as autonomous institutions providing local governance and social order in the Valley of the Apurímac River during the internal armed conflict in Peru ...