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Yvan Guichaoua joined us in September 2015 as lecturer in International Conflict Analysis. He convenes the MA International Development. Prior to this, from 2011, Yvan was a lecturer in International Politics at the University of East Anglia. He is also a former teaching fellow at Yale University and research officer at the University of Oxford. His focus is the dynamics of insurgency formation, rebel governance and state responses in Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Niger. Since 2007, Yvan Guichaoua has been studying Tuareg recurring rebellions in Niger and Mali and the rise of Jihadism in the Sahel. His works pays close attention to the complex interactions between violent entrepreneurs, low level combatants and civilian populations shaping the success or failure of irregular armed groups as well as the forms of violence they perpetrate. Yvan also studies the implications of the internationalisation of conflicts in the Sahel and their transformation into new theatres for the war against terror. Yvan engages regularly with the policy-making community (International Crisis Group, World Bank, DFID, etc) and is frequently consulted by the media on the Sahelian crisis.
Latest book chapters
2014. ” Tuareg Militancy and the Sahelian Shock Waves of the Libya Revolution” in Cole, P. & McQuinn, B. The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath. Hurst / Oxford University Press.
2013. “Group Formation, Identities, and Violent Mobilization: Evidence from Nigeria and Niger” in Justino, P., Bruck, T, and Vewimp, P. A Micro-level perspective on the dynamics of conflict, violence and development. Oxford University Press.
2013. “Recruitment in non-state armed groups”, in Brown, G. & Langer, A., Elgar Companion to Civil War and Fragile States, Edward Elgar.
Edited books
2012. (with Thorp, R., Battistelli, S., Orihuela, J.C., Paredes, M.). The Developmental Challenges of Mining and Oil. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.
2011. Understanding Collective Political Violence. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.