Research projects

Artisanal Diamond Mining Project

This project regards the artisanal and small-scale mining of diamonds. Since these diamonds are mostly traded in an informal way, they pose a threat to the credibility and integrity of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS). In addition, while the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) of diamonds is of great importance for a number of (predominantly African) nations, it is often accompanied by human rights violations and, despite the great potential for development, mostly a survival strategy.
The objective of this project is to examine different strategies and possibilities to strengthen the controls on artisanal diamond mining.
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EPIN

The Egmont Institute is part of the European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN). This network is composed of the leading European think tanks and policy institutes working on current EU affairs and European political and policy debates. On a regular basis, meetings are being organised related to European current events. The EPIN network offers also the possibility to publish papers (‘EPIN Working Paper’).
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Middle East Project

The Project ‘The Political and Religious equilibrium in the Arab World and Muslim Community’ studies the Sunni-Shia power balance in the Middle East, and considers the possible consequences of a modification in these relations for Belgian and EU policy. This project is funded by the Belgian Federal Public Service for Science Policy and is undertaken in cooperation with the universities of Ghent (UGent) and Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL).

MULTIPART

Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Post-Conflict Reconstruction (MULTIPART): The role of the EU (FP7) (2008 – 2009). The Project investigates whether, how, and under what conditions multistakeholder partnerships can positively impact on human security and thus, facilitate non-violence and long-term peace, provididing a productive framework for relations between local actors and external actors, including third party mediators and international organisations.
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Observatoire de l'Afrique

The 'Observatoire de l'Afrique' is a network of independent institutes and experts based in Europe and in Africa. It aims at encouraging discussion between African and European experts on African security and political issues. The overall objective is to create a forum for open, constructive dialogue and debate, and provide useful conclusions to a wide range of policy makers.
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SANDERA

SANDERA will focus on the future relationship between two critical European policy domains: namely, the EU strategy since Lisbon to move towards the European Research Area and those EU policies focused on the security of the European citizen in the world.

SANDERA’s working hypothesis is that the establishment of security as an element of the European policy mix is the start rather than the end of policy innovation in this field. We believe that the emergence of an explicit defence and security dimension to EU science and technology policy represents a discontinuous policy innovation of potentially profound significance to the future character of European science and technology policy and the move towards the European Research Area. Accordingly, SANDERA will examine how future developments in European security and defence policies combined with technological change and the evolution of European science and technology policies could interact in intended and unintended ways to affect the pace and character of the move towards the ERA as well as priorities for the 8th Framework Programme.
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