Researchers

Jean-Christophe HOSTE

Researcher - Africa Programme

Bio

Jean-Christophe Hoste

Jean-Christophe Hoste joined the Africa Programme of Egmont Institute as a Researcher in August 2007. Before joining the Institute, Jean-Christophe Hoste was an Africa Research Assistant at Crisis Group Nairobi where he studied the effectiveness of sanctions regimes, the African Union, African Security Structures, Africom and terrorism in Africa.

In 2006-2007 he worked at the Crisis Group Media and Publications Departments in their Brussels Headquarters.

In 2005 he was Assistant to the Information Officer for the BENELUX and EU, at the United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) in Brussels.

Jean-Christophe Hoste holds Master’s degrees in Development Cooperation Politics and Conflict (2003) and Comparative Cultural Sciences (2002) both from Ghent University. He is fluent in Dutch, French, English and German.

Jean-Christophe Hoste
Researcher - Africa Programme
EGMONT, Royal Institute for International Relations
Rue de Namur 69, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Expertise

• The influence of climate change on conflicts in Sub-Sahara Africa
• African perspective on the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen

Publications

• African dynamics at the climate change negotiations, Jean-Christophe Hoste & Andrew Anderson, Africa Policy Brief 3, Nov. 2011.
• Climate Change and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Mother of all Problems?, Jean-Christophe Hoste and Koen Vlassenroot, in Proceedings International Symposium Developing Countries facing Global Warming: a Post-Kyoto Assessment 12-13 June 2009, pp.139-149, July 2011.
• Dynamics of Decision Making in Africa, Conference Report, Leriba-Lodge, Pretoria, 8-9 Nov 2010, Jean-Christophe Hoste and Andrew Anderson. (Voir ici version FR.)
• Africa-EU: Decision Making after the Summit, Jean-Christophe Hoste, Africa Briefing report, Brussels, 14 Dec. 2010.
• Beyond development: political context analysis as a tool for a more effective EU-Africa Partnership, Jean-Christophe Hoste, in Beyond Development Aid: EU-Africa Political Dialogue on Global Issues of Common Concern, Nov. 2010, pp. 103-113.
• Where was united Africa in the climate change negotiations?, Jean-Christophe Hoste, Africa Policy Brief, n°2, Feb. 2010.
• Climate change and Security, Conference Report, CERI, Paris - 20 Jan. 2009, Jean-Christophe Hoste, 26 March 2009 - Report (EN) - Rapport (FR).
• Co-author of the Africa Briefing of the Observatoire de l’Afrique Zimbabwe after the elections, Sept. 2008.
• Co-author of the Africa Briefing of the Observatoire de l’Afrique Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Guinea-Bissau, February 2008.

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