Lidewyde Berckmoes

As associate professor and senior researcher at the African Studies Centre Leiden, Lidewyde Berckmoes employs life-course and intergenerational perspectives to increase understanding of cyclical dynamics of conflict and peace in the Great Lakes Region, particularly Burundi and Rwanda.

Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Lidewyde uses anthropological perspectives while building collaborations with colleagues in migration studies, medical anthropology, psychology and psychiatry to come to new insights in long-term effects of conflict on children, young people and families. Her PhD study describes social practices that shape dynamics of ongoing (mis)trust in aftermath of conflict in Burundi (VU University Amsterdam, 2014). Subsequently she worked on various postdoc projects, including on transnational parenting, SRHR among young refugees, intergenerational transmission of trauma, and conflict heritage among diaspora youth. Currently, Lidewyde acts as principal investigator of the research project Pedagogies of peace and conflict in the Great Lakes region, for which she collaborates with the University of Rwanda, and is convenor of the ASCL Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Conflict continuities. She teaches various courses on research methodology in the BA and MA African Studies.

Keywords: Burundi, Rwanda, refugees, conflict, peace, children and youth, generations, pedagogies

Dr. L.H. (Lidewyde) Berckmoes
Senior researcher
Rwanda, Burundi, Great Lakes

l.h.berckmoes@asc.leidenuniv.nl
Room number: 3.B57

Dr. L.H. Berckmoes's profile on the Leiden University website
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Lost and found: Africa in Indonesia (2023)
L.H. Berckmoes
Type of Publication: Other

Burundi at 60 (2022)
A.J. Dietz; D.W.L. Ehrhardt; L.H. Berckmoes
Type of Publication: Other
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Conflict and parenting in Burundi (2022)
L.H. Berckmoes
Editors: H. Selin
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Rwanda at 60 (2022)
A.J. Dietz; D.W.L. Ehrhardt; L.H. Berckmoes
Type of Publication: Other
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In the aftermath of atrocities: research on the intergenerational transmission of trauma and violence (2022)
L.H. Berckmoes
Editors: B. Holá; H.N. Nzitatira; M. Weerdesteijn
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda (2021)
Y. Ruzibiza; L.H. Berckmoes; S. Neema; R. Reis
Type of Publication: Journal Article

Introduction : the longitudinal ethnography of violence (2021)
L.H. Berckmoes; M. Rosenkrantz Lindegaard; D. Rodgers
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Political vigilante groups in Ghana: violence or democracy? (2021)
J.R.K.O. Kyei; L.H. Berckmoes
Type of Publication: Journal Article

De toekomst van oorlog en vrede in Afrika: drie trends (2020)
L.H. Berckmoes
Type of Publication: Journal Article

Violence and vulnerability : children’s strategies and the logic of violence in Burundi (2020)
T.D. Hendriks; R. Reis; M. Sostakova; L.H. Berckmoes
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Charlie Hebdo as a critical event in a secondary school: Muslim students’ complex and multilayered positioning before and after the attack (2020)
C. Tize; L.H. Berckmoes; J.T.V.M.de Jong; R. Reis
Type of Publication: Journal Article

The effectiveness of sexual and reproductive health education in Burundi: policy brief (2020)
J. Westeneng; R. Reis; L.H. Berckmoes
Type of Publication: Other

Unpacking context and culture in mental health pathways of child and adolescent refugees (2020)
R. Reis; M.R. Crone; L.H. Berckmoes
Editors: S. Song; P. Ventevogel
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Reticent digital diasporas in times of crisis (2020)
S. Turner; L.H. Berckmoes
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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SOC - Sex Offenders in and out of Crime : recidivism, criminal careers and desistance (2019)
E. Maes; L. Robert; L. Pauwels; A. Blokland; T.H. Pham; R. de Blander; M. Deblock; L.H. Berckmoes; L. de Kruijff; P. Spaan; D. Delannoy; I. Strzoda; E. Telle; M. Blom; B. Wartna
Type of Publication: Other
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Before my time? : addressing the intergenerational legacies of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (2019)
V. Eichelsheim; L.H. Berckmoes; B. Holá; T. Rutayisire; A. Richters
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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'Conflict and parenting in Burundi'
 In: H. Selin: 'Parenting across cultures childrearing, motherhood and fatherhood in non-Western cultures', Cham: Springer, 2022.

'In the aftermath of atrocities: research on the intergenerational transmission of trauma and violence'
 In: B. Holá; H.N. Nzitatira; M. Weerdesteijn: 'The Oxford handbook of atrocity crimes', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

'Unpacking context and culture in mental health pathways of child and adolescent refugees'
 In: S. Song; P. Ventevogel: 'Child, adolescent and family refugee mental health : a global perspective', Cham: Springer, 2020.

'Young protesters’ ambivalence about violence in the 2015 crisis in Burundi: local legacies of conflict and generational change'
 in: Peacebuilding, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 302-316, 2023.
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'Making ‘the process’: sexual vulnerability and Burundian refugee boys and young men’ strategies for onward migration from Nakivale refugee settlement'
 in: Journal of refugee studies, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 1186-1203, 2022.
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'Intergenerational maltreatment in parent–child dyads from Burundi, Africa: associations among parental depression and connectedness, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and aggression in children'
 in: Journal of traumatic stress, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 943-954, 2021.

'Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda'
 in: Sexual and reproductive health matters, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 1-14, 2021.

'Political vigilante groups in Ghana: violence or democracy?'
 in: Africa spectrum, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 321-338, 2021.

'Pursuing futures through children: crisis, social reproduction, and transformation in Burundi’s transnational families'
 in: Migration studies, pp. 1-19, 2021.

'Introduction : the longitudinal ethnography of violence'
 in: Conflict and society, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 96-106, 2021.
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'Charlie Hebdo as a critical event in a secondary school: Muslim students’ complex and multilayered positioning before and after the attack'
 in: Transcultural psychiatry, pp. 1-13, 2020.

'De toekomst van oorlog en vrede in Afrika: drie trends'
 in: Clingendael spectator, 2020.

'Reticent digital diasporas in times of crisis'
 in: African diaspora, pp. 1-26, 2020.
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'Violence and vulnerability : children’s strategies and the logic of violence in Burundi'
 in: Childen & society, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 31-45, 2020.
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'Before my time? : addressing the intergenerational legacies of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda'
 in: Intervention : journal of mental health and psychosocial support in conflict affected areas, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 31-39, 2019.
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Lost and found: Africa in Indonesia
Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2023.
Burundi at 60
Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), ASC info sheet 54, 2022.
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Rwanda at 60
Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), ASC info sheet 53, 2022.
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The effectiveness of sexual and reproductive health education in Burundi: policy brief
Paris, Buenos Aires, Dakar: Health and Education Resource Centre, UNESCO, 2020.
SOC - Sex Offenders in and out of Crime : recidivism, criminal careers and desistance
Brussel: BELSPO, 2019.
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