Arnim Langer

Director, Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD), and University Lecturer in International Relations

Leuven University (K.U.Leuven)
Belgium

www.kuleuven.be/crpd

Email: Arnim.Langer@soc.kuleuven.be

Research areas

Causes and consequences of conflict, post-conflict economic reconstruction, sustainable peace building, inequality, group behaviour and identity formation, Africa (particularly Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria).

Current research

• Survey research of group identity and group behaviour in Ghana and Nigeria
• Cultural status inequalities and group mobilisation
• Persistence of socio-economic horizontal inequalities
• Analysis of the Ivorian peace process
• Analysis of multidimensional horizontal inequalities and violent conflict: a comparative study of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire

CRISE publications

CRISE Working Paper No. 50: Macro Adjustment Policies and Horizontal Inequalities (with Frances Stewart) (2008)

CRISE Working Paper No. 45: Horizontal Inequalities in Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire: Issues and Policies (with Raufu Mustapha and Frances Stewart) (2007)

CRISE Working Paper No. 42: Policies Towards Horizontal Inequalities (with Frances Stewart and Graham Brown) (2007)

CRISE Working Paper No. 41: Cultural Status Inequalities: An Important Dimension of Group Mobilisation (with Graham Brown)(2007)  

CRISE Working Paper No. 39: Horizontal inequalities: Explaining Persistence and Change (with Frances Stewart) (2007)

CRISE Working Paper No. 34: Ethnicity, Religion and the State in Ghana and Nigeria: Perceptions from the Street (with Ukoha Ukiwo)(2007).

CRISE Working Paper No. 25 The Peaceful Management of Horizontal Inequalities in Ghana(2007)

CRISE Working Paper No. 13 Horizontal Inequality and Violent Conflict: The case of Côte d’Ivoire (2004)

Policy levers in Cote d’Ivoire CRISE Policy Paper No. 3 (2003) 

Recent publications

Articles:

Langer, A., (2005), 'Horizontal Inequalities and Violent Group Mobilisation in Côte d'Iviore', Oxford Development Studies 33(1): 25-45.

Reychler, L. and Langer, A., (2003), ‘Peace Building Software: the creation of an integrative climate’, The Canadian Journal of Peace Studies 35(2): 35-55.

Book chapters:

Langer, A. and Brown, G., (2007), Cultural Status Inequalities: An important dimension of group mobilization, in: Stewart, F., (ed.), Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming).  

Langer, A., (2007), Horizontal Inequalities and Violent conflict: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, in: Stewart, F., (ed.), Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming).

Stewart, F., Brown, G. and Langer, A., (2007), Policies towards Horizontal Inequalities, in: Stewart, F., (ed.), Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming).

Stewart, F. and Langer, A., (2007), Horizontal Inequalities: Explaining Persistence and Change, in: Stewart, F., (ed.), Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming).

Working Papers:

Reychler, L., and Langer, A., (2006), ‘Researching Peace Building Architecture’, CPRSWorking Paper, No. 75, Leuven: Center for Peace Research and Strategic Studies, University of Leuven (B).

Consultancy/policy papers:

Langer, A., (2005), ‘Horizontal inequalities and violent conflict: Côte d’Ivoire Country Paper’, 2005 Human Development Report: International Cooperation at a crossroads - Aid, trade and security in an unequal world, Occasional Paper, No. 32, New York: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report Office (Available at: http://hdr.undp.org/docs/publications/
background_papers/2005/HDR2005_Langer_Arnim_32.pdf)

Langer, A., ‘Côte d’Ivoire: A country in ruin, a nation destroyed’, Background paper on human rights abuses in Côte d’Ivoire for the ‘Fragile States Project’ of the UK Department for International Development (DFID), July 2006.