Projects

The new UN Sustaining Peace agenda reconfigures international peace and security intervention away from state­centric perspectives. Instead, the focus is on bottom­up and inclusive initiatives for societies to address the root causes of conflict (UNSC 2020, 17). Driven by the logic that inclusivity is vital for conflict prevention, and informed by the UN Security Council Women, Peace, and Security agenda (WPS), the Sustaining Peace agenda ...

The thesis researches the interpretation of the basic principles of international space law as they relate and apply to the activity of the exploitation of the natural resources in space, both of outer space sensu stricto and of celestial bodies. In so doing, it focuses on the non-appropriation principle of Article II of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and its alleged incompatibility with the exploitation of celestial bodies. The thesis analyses ...

This project focuses on the rural livelihoods in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, which heavily relies on small-scale subsistence farming. However, sustainable resource management is hindered by limited resources, capacity, climate disruptions, and change. This leads to low agricultural productivity and high food insecurity. Despite progress over three decades, these gains were disrupted by a two-year war (2020-2022). The project's ...

FABulous Farmers (where FAB stands for Functional Agrobiodiversity) stimulates farmers to transition towards more agro-ecological practices on their farm. The project is active in in 5 countries (BE, NL, LUX, FR & UK) in a total of 12 pilot regions. FABulous Farmers aims to reduce the reliance on external inputs, like chemical fertilizers and pesticides, by increasing the use of functional ...

The cultural encounters between the Old and New Worlds are among the most infamous in human history. The Caribbean was the centre stage for interactions between cultures of dramatically different backgrounds, which after a turbulent colonial period eventually laid the foundations for the modern-day, multi-ethnic societies of the region. This project focuses on inter-community social relationships and transformations of island cultures, and ...