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Sam Kniknie

@SamKnkn

PhD candidate at @crg_crg | working on popular mobilization, youth and urban peripheries in eastern DRC

 Brussels, Belgium
Joined February 2014
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Colleagues & I just published a paper @Global_Policy on the linkages btw (post-)conflict decentralisation policies & violent competition for crafting & securing public authority in DR Congo 🇨🇩👇 @KarenBscher @JeroenCuvelier @GodefroidMuzal1 @ERwakira onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Contested ‘commune rurales’: Decentralisation and the (violent) struggle for public authority in...

Contested ‘commune rurales’: Decentralisation and the (violent) struggle for public authority in...

This article explores how decentralisation policy and specifically the establishment of communes rurales in DR Congo turned into a profoundly destabilising juncture, shaking existing governance...

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Join the Palestinian Solidarity Network's teachout on Palestine at the UFO @ugent from 12h-15h this Friday 20/10 during the Global strike. 📢✊🏽 Consider skipping work/classes to attend. Share the poster & inform others. 🔄 The time for action is now. 🇵🇸
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Big day for CRG yesterday with the launch of the Insecure Livelihoods Fellowship programme in Bukavu. For the next six months 10 Congolese researchers will get a tailored mentorship programme to guide their research
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Happy to have this out (open access), in the Strategic Review for Southern Africa: "Russian influence, anti-Western sentiments and African agency: The struggle for influence in the Democratic Republic of Congo" upjournals.up.ac.za/index.ph… #DRC #Russia
Henning Melber (@HenningMelber) profile pictureHenning Melber@HenningMelber1 Sep 2023
Fascinating analysis by @KristofTiteca on Russian influence in the DRC, just published in the Strategic Review for Southern Africa. Freely accessible here 👇 upjournals.up.ac.za/index.ph…
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OPPORTUNITÉ pour cherhcheur. se.s 🇨🇩! Contribuez à notre série Insecure Livelihoods (ILS). 8 bourses de 6 mois, dans le cadre du programme Insecure Livelihoods Fellowship (ILF) / projet de recherche "Analyse des conflits à l’est de la RDC" financé par la GIZ (ProPaix II)
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Narratives about the debt crisis in Global South countries typically present it as a technical issue or the fault of “corrupt” or “incompetent” governments. This intentionally erases colonialism in creating Global South debt, & how it is utilised as a form of neo-colonialism.
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Another #CRG20 essay, where @KarenBscher, @sperazzone and Ayehu Bacha highlight the centrality of the urban margins in the spatial translations of violent conflict. (1/2) 20yearscrg.be/wp-content/upl…
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Learn more about DRC's history through embroidery. CRG's @MaartenH88 & @SamKnkn and historians @GMathys & @SVBeurden present the exceptional work of Congolese artist Lucie Kamuswekera. Check out the exhibition if you're in Ghent @AmsabISG amsab.be/over-ons/nieuws/108…
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Een nieuwe maand, een nieuwe columniste: @AbdouLatifah van #WeDecolonizeVUB Waarom inclusie niet meteen over rechtvaardige inclusie gaat bit.ly/3cxKsD9

Waarom inclusie niet meteen over rechtvaardige inclusie gaat – MO*

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In response to the Belgian king’s reference to a “painful shared past”, a Congolese friend of mine asked what exactly had been painful for Belgium. I haven’t seen a more fitting analysis elsewhere.
Rosebell Kagumire (@RosebellK) profile pictureRosebell Kagumire@RosebellK20 Jun 2022
“Today, let’s look towards the future,” he urged. Philippe declined to expand on his regrets, and only mentioned the colonial past, “our shared history,” in veiled terms. Leopold II, Philippe’s great great grand uncle, for more than 25 years.🤮🤮 theconversation.com/how-patr…
How Patrice Lumumba’s assassination drove student activism, shaping the Congo’s future

How Patrice Lumumba’s assassination drove student activism, shaping the Congo’s future

Lumumba’s death triggered students and created a generation of activists that pushed for total liberation from exploitation and oppression.

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At the @crg_crg 20th anniversary conf, we also organized a little visual exhibition w/ @SamKnkn @MarteBelde @kvlassen @ethuin & many others 🤩 – at Ghent, Belgium
Image from @stephanieperazzone.bsky.social 🍉 🇨🇩 (@sperazzone)
Image from @stephanieperazzone.bsky.social 🍉 🇨🇩 (@sperazzone)
Image from @stephanieperazzone.bsky.social 🍉 🇨🇩 (@sperazzone)
Image from @stephanieperazzone.bsky.social 🍉 🇨🇩 (@sperazzone)
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The #CFP for our upcoming #CRG20 conference (23-24 May) on the future and past of conflict studies is open until 4th of April. We welcome creative and innovative papers and particularly encourage contributions from a broad spectrum of disciplines and stakeholders.
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Excellent overview on #Beni, #ADF and the #UN, 2014—2019, by my former colleague Dan Fahey. #Congo
African Arguments (@africaarguments) profile pictureAfrican Arguments@africaarguments11 Dec 2019
#ADF rebels in the #DRC: Why are locals protesting against the #UN, again? buff.ly/2P9xZXy
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Marc Maes @www11be: ‘Vergis je niet: #TTIP is nog niet dood en begraven!’ buff.ly/2bB1cqI
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#Duterte schiet met scherp. Genunaceerd commentaar van @www11be 's @krisvsb. #Filipijnen mo.be/nieuws/duterte-geliefd… via @mondiaalnieuws
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