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Transnational companies and local politics. Hybrid governance in mining concessions in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Ghana. University of Antwerp

Marijke Verpoorten, Filip Reyntjens
Development processes, actors and policies
Demand for mineral resources is growing, while reserves are drying up. This evolution has pushed transnational mining companies (TNCs) towards extraction in formerly inaccessible locations, including post-conflict areas. Quite often in such settings, the TNCs concerned also perform governance functions, such as providing security, social services and public infrastructure. In so doing, they conform to the requirements of 'corporate social ...

The multidimensional impact of rural and urban electrification: economic development, security and conservation? Follow-up research in Eastern Congo. University of Antwerp

Marijke Verpoorten
Development processes, actors and policies
We measure the impact of electricity provision on economic development, security and conservation. Our case study focuses on rural and urban communities nearby Virunga National Park, in DR Congo. Impoverished by armed conflict, the communities complement their livelihoods with the park's resources to make ends meet. These resources are also illicitly exploited by several armed groups that have their hideouts within the park's boundaries. The ...

The multidimensional impact of rural and urban electrification: economic development, security and conservation? Evidence from Eastern Congo. University of Antwerp

Marijke Verpoorten
Development processes, actors and policies
We measure the impact of electricity provision on economic development, security and conservation. Our case study focuses on rural and urban communities nearby Virunga National Park, in North-Kivu, DR Congo. Impoverished by two decades of armed conflict, the communities complement their livelihoods with the park's resources to make ends meet. These resources are also illicitly exploited by at least eight armed groups that have their hide-outs ...

The politics of time at the ASM-LSM interface in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo Ghent University

Koen Vlassenroot
Department of Conflict and Development Studies

Advanced economies strongly depend on imports of metallic minerals such as tantalum, niobium, cobalt, gold, tungsten and copper. Although these minerals are mainly produced through large-scale mining (LSM), a substantial part of the worldU+2019s mineral production also originates from artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). As a result of the spectacular growth in emerging economies like China and India, recent years have witnessed an ...

Waking Prithviraj: the subversive poetics of the past in North Indian historical literature Ghent University

Eva De Clercq
Department of Languages and Cultures

Complementing and challenging a dominant historiographical and socio-political mode of textual analysis, this project offers a first and much-needed literary/aesthetic reappraisal of an important Sanskrit historical epic poem, JayanakaU+2019s long-neglected Prthvirajavijaya U+201CPrithvirajU+2019s VictoryU+201D (1192-3). This epic stands at the beginning of a long and ongoing tradition of heroic and unheroic retellings about the (in)famous ...

Horizontal Inequalities and Food Riots in Africa. KU Leuven

Arnim Langer
Leuven International and European Studies (LINES), Centre for Research on Peace and Development

In recent years, protest events in a range of African countries have attracted widespread interest and public debate. The sharp increase in world food prices in 2007 and 2008, for example, was associated with the occurrence of a wave of food riots on the continent. In a number of countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, protests erupted against high costs of living and frequently escalated into ...

Provably preserving software security properties against layer-below attacks KU Leuven

Frank Piessens
Distributed and Secure Software (DistriNet)

Our modern society increasingly relies upon computing devices for its proper functioning. With their increased presence, the number of interactions between different software components also increases. To secure this interaction and contain the impact of bug exploits (both malicious and accidental in nature), some form of security primitive to enforce the interface between different components is required.

In this dissertation, we study ...

Re-framing urban polycentricity: conceptualising, comparing, and tool-building KU Leuven

Ben Derudder
Public Governance Institute

The overall objective of this project is to significantly innovate the scientific literature on ‘urban polycentricity’. The general idea underlying urban polycentricity is fairly straightforward: the term is used to refer to territories that have multiple, proximately located (sub)centers and are characterized by balanced development. This general idea is, however, also vague and arguably at the root of much confusion. The urban ...

Social support in the Internet era: Relationships between stressors, problem behavior and adolescents' computer-mediated social support. KU Leuven

Steven Eggermont
Leuven School for Mass Communication Research

The exponential growth of social networking sites, especially the large amount of time spent on Facebook, raised concern about the potential harmful impact of social networking site use on adolescents’ well-being. However, over the years, controversy regarding the potential outcomes of adolescents’ social networking site use has emerged. This resulted in an ongoing scholarly debate on whether social networking sites, like Facebook, are ...