Lidewyde Berckmoes
As associate professor and senior researcher at the African Studies Centre Leiden, Lidewyde Berckmoes investigates long-term and cyclical dynamics of conflict and peace in the Great Lakes Region, particularly Burundi and Rwanda.
Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Lidewyde uses anthropological lenses in combination with insights from peace and conflict studies, migration studies, psychology and psychiatry to come to new insights about the long-term and intergenerational effects of conflict on children, young people and families. She recently published a photo-ethnography entitled TRACES with photographer Marieke Maagdenberg, a book that points to conflict-affected cultural repertoires as reflecting how the history of war in Burundi affects second-generation migrants in Europe. She is the principal investigator of two ongoing projects; in Rwanda concerning intergenerational resilience and anticipatory practices in conflict and natural disaster, and in Burundi exploring entanglements of cyclical conflict and mental health problems and care. Lidewyde is also the convenor of the ASCL Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Conflict continuities.
Keywords: Burundi, Rwanda, conflict, peace, children and youth, refugees, intergenerational transmission, mental health
Dr.
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(Lidewyde)
Berckmoes
Dr. L.H. Berckmoes's profile on the Leiden University website
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Dr. L.H. Berckmoes's profile on the Leiden University website
Collaboration and contestation in words: Dialogues and disputes in African social realities
(Collaborative Research Group)
Conflict continuities
(Collaborative Research Group)
Pioneering futures of health and well-being: actors, technologies and social engineering
(Collaborative Research Group)
Planetary Health in and from Africa
(Collaborative Research Group)
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Afterlives of violent conflict (2024)
Type of Publication: Other
"Our children are dead": past and anticipated adversity shaping caregiving and cultural reproduction among Banyamulenge refugee families in Rwanda (2024)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Family, generation and change in the context of crisis (2024)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Ter voorbereiding van het ergst denkbare: opvoeding in Rwanda te midden van oorlogsdreiging en hoop (2024)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Young protesters’ ambivalence about violence in the 2015 crisis in Burundi: local legacies of conflict and generational change (2023)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Lost and found: Africa in Indonesia (2023)
Type of Publication: Other
Making ‘the process’: sexual vulnerability and Burundian refugee boys and young men’ strategies for onward migration from Nakivale refugee settlement (2022)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
In the aftermath of atrocities: research on the intergenerational transmission of trauma and violence (2022)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Conflict and parenting in Burundi (2022)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda (2021)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Political vigilante groups in Ghana: violence or democracy? (2021)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Pursuing futures through children: crisis, social reproduction, and transformation in Burundi’s transnational families (2021)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Introduction : the longitudinal ethnography of violence (2021)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Intergenerational maltreatment in parent–child dyads from Burundi, Africa: associations among parental depression and connectedness, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and aggression in children (2021)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Violence and vulnerability : children’s strategies and the logic of violence in Burundi (2020)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Unpacking context and culture in mental health pathways of child and adolescent refugees (2020)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Charlie Hebdo as a critical event in a secondary school: Muslim students’ complex and multilayered positioning before and after the attack (2020)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
De toekomst van oorlog en vrede in Afrika: drie trends (2020)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
The effectiveness of sexual and reproductive health education in Burundi: policy brief (2020)
Type of Publication: Other
Before my time? : addressing the intergenerational legacies of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (2019)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
SOC - Sex Offenders in and out of Crime : recidivism, criminal careers and desistance (2019)
Type of Publication: Other
'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.
'Conflict and parenting in Burundi'
In: H. Selin: 'Parenting across cultures childrearing, motherhood and fatherhood in non-Western cultures', Cham: Springer, 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.
'"Our children are dead": past and anticipated adversity shaping caregiving and cultural reproduction among Banyamulenge refugee families in Rwanda'
in: Genealogy, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. [16 pages], 2024.
'Family, generation and change in the context of crisis'
in: Genealogy, vol. 8, no. 3, 2024.
'Ter voorbereiding van het ergst denkbare: opvoeding in Rwanda te midden van oorlogsdreiging en hoop'
in: Impact magazine, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 6-9, 2024.
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'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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'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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'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.
'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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'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.
'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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Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2024.
Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2023.
Paris, Buenos Aires, Dakar: Health and Education Resource Centre, UNESCO, 2020.
Brussel: BELSPO, 2019.
Project status:
Ongoing
Chaimaa Radouani, Making Morocco Home: The Realities and Integration of sub-Saharan African Migrants
Project status:
Ongoing
Project status:
Ongoing
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16 June 2023