Bert Ingelaere
Assistant Professor, University of Antwerp
appearing on Panel 8: Prevention Dec. 3, 12:15–13:30
Bert Ingelaere is assistant professor (lecturer) at the Institute of Development Policy at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He also chairs the Great Lakes of Africa Centre. His research focuses on the legacy of mass violence, mobility and the process of knowledge construction. He has undertaken more than 40 months of fieldwork in Africa’s Great Lakes region. He has been an advisor for international NGOs, the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The World Bank, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Fund for Scientific Research — Flanders and the Program on Order, Conflict and Violence at Yale University.
His work was awarded the United States African Studies Association Graduate Student Paper Prize and the Auschwitz Foundation Prize. His book Inside Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts received the 2017 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize. He has also published numerous reports and articles for such publications as African Affairs, Journal of Modern African Studies, Critique of Anthropology or The International Journal of Transitional Justice and is the co-editor of Genocide, Risk and Resilience.
For more information, go to www.bertingelaere.net.
