Publications
Governance Ghent University
In many mineral-rich regions across the globe, state actors are not the sole – or even the primary – actors regulating access to mineral wealth. Instead, a range of other actors are not only undertaking efforts to regulate access to mineral-bearing land, but are also fulfilling important functions in regulating labour markets. Examples include traditional or religious authorities, associations of traders, miners’ cooperatives, landowners, mining ...
From ‘conflict minerals’ to peace? Reviewing mining reforms, gender, and state performance in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Ghent University
For the last two decades, the Congolese Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has been undergoing reforms of its governing structures. A recurrent argument supporting the reforms - predominantly in the 3T ASM sector (i.e. tin, tantalum and tungsten) - is that artisanal mining feeds violence (including sexual violence), conflicts, underdevelopment, and poverty. The reforms have been extensively studied, and academic research in turn has ...