Lotte Geboers

Lotte Geboers holds an interdisciplinary Bachelor in Liberal Arts and Sciences from Utrecht University, with a specialization in International & Conflict studies. This interdisciplinary program led to her choice to specialize in a region rather than a discipline or field of study, hence her choice for the Research Master African Studies at Leiden University. Her BA thesis focused on how the neoliberal management of globalization shaped the state-building process and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is particularly interested in global-local interconnectedness. She is currently in the first year of the Research Master African Studies at Leiden University. For her fieldwork and thesis she is interested in the politics of anti-piracy operations departing from strategically located islands in the Indian Ocean.

At the African Studies Centre, she is a student assistant and is co-organizing the ‘Destination Africa: Contemporary Africa as a Global Meeting Point’-conference by the AEGIS CRG ‘Africa in the World – Rethinking Africa’s Global Connections’.

Keywords: DRC, global linkages, piracy, climate change mitigation, strategic geopolitics, globalization and development, hybrid peacebuilding, corporate social responsibility, interdisciplinary research.