Our Team

Dr Astrid Jamar directs the Pluriversal Dreams Project. Dr Astrid Jamar is a Senior FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp. Since 2006, she has been undertaking research in the field of development, peace and conflict studies from anthropological, feminist and decolonial perspectives. Her research addresses the interplay of actors, institutions, and norms, as well as pluriversal approaches to peace. Prior to joining the IOB, she was a postdoctoral fellow at SOAS (2021), a Lecturer in Development at The Open University (2019–2021), and a researcher within the School of Law, University of Edinburgh (2015–2019). She is currently developing an innovative research agenda on dreams, knowledge production, border-thinking and peacebuilding interventions at Burundian and Congolese borders.

Ir. Christelle Balegamire Karuta est la chercheuse principale du projet FluidBorders, chargée principalement des activités autour d’Uvira. Elle est également chercheuse junior du Centre d’Expertise en Gestion Environnementale et Minière de l’Université Catholique de Bukavu (CEGEMI-UCB) (depuis 2021). Ingénieur agronome de formation et assistante des cours/ de recherche au sein de l’Institut Supérieur de Technique et Développement de Kalehe (ISTD-Kalehe), elle intervient dans les études sur les impacts environnementaux dans plusieurs provinces de la RDC (Sud-Kivu, Haut-Katanga et Lualaba) et de deux pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Guinée et Cote d’Ivoire). Elle traite par ailleurs des questions sociales et des dynamiques des communautés qui travaillent/ vivent autours de mines et des régions ayant subis des catastrophes naturelles ; avec un accent particulier sur les femmes et les enfants. Actuellement, elle mène  ses recherches sur l’adhésion de la RDC dans l’East African Community (EAC) en orientant le questionnement vers les prédispositions sécuritaires, économiques et (ou) électorale qui guettent la nation congolaise.

Jean-Paul Nizigiyimana is the lead researcher of the FluidBorders project, in charge of main research activities in Bujumbura. He holds a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the Université du Lac Tanganyika – Burundi, and MA in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and The Rule of Law from the Geneva Academy of IHL and HR in Switzerland. During his university studies (from 2012 to 2016), he worked periodically as a research assistant for several social science research projects on peacebuilding in Burundi, and undertook fieldwork on ‘Local voting issues in Burundi in 2010’ presented in 2013). From 2017-2020, he was a researcher and project lead at Impunity Watch-Burundi, a Dutch organization where he produced policy briefs, gave trainings to trainers of local organizations, community peacemakers and conducted qualitative research on transitional justice in general and the transitional justice process in Burundi.

Romain Landmeters is a researcher in contemporary history and lecturer in social sciences and humanities at the Université Saint-Louis – Brussels. Since 2016, he is a member of the Centre de recherches en histoire du droit, des institutions et de la société where he has conducted research on the history of justice in a colonial context. His PhD project traces the path of Burundian, Congolese and Rwandan migrants in Brussels in the 1950s and 1960s. In parallel to his fundamental research, he has pleaded alongside Afrodescendant associations for the integration of the teaching of the general history of Africa and the history of Belgian colonisation into the school curriculum in French-speaking Belgium. He also took part in citizen projects to decolonise the public space in Brussels. He is supporting the pedagogic dimensions of the Fluid Borders stream. 

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