Below you can find a selection of current and past research projects that involve the Department of Public Law and the BruCeL research group:
Current research projects:
SELAM: Reinforcing Academic Cooperation in Peace Education between Ethiopian and Flemish Higher Education Institutions
This new research project is about Reinforcing Academic Cooperation in Peace Education between Ethiopian and Flemish Higher Education Institutions and will start the first of September 2024. The VUB is one of the 6 Flemish HEIs (Higher Education Institutes) to launch the project in collaboration with 5 Ethiopian universities and stakeholders to contribute to transitional justice processes and sustainable peace.
VLIR-UOS IUC Project "University as a Facilitator for Community-based Sustainable Solutions to Demographic Challenges in South-Western Uganda (UCoBS)"
Mbara University of Science and Technology (MUST) is implementing a 12-year project titled “University as a Facilitator for Community-based Sustainable Solutions to Demographic Challenges in South-Western Uganda” hereafter referred to as UCoBS. The project is coordinated by Charles Tushabomwe-Kazooba (local coordinator) and Gily Coene (Flemish coordinator)
Past research projects:
FWO Scientific Research Network (WOG) "Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in Practice"
Wouter Vandenhole (UAntwerpen), Eva Brems (UGent), Stefaan Smis (VUB), Markus Krajewski (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), en Mark Gibney (University of North Carolina Asheville)
2021-2025
FWOAL939 "Strategic Litigation based on indigenous peoples' rights: a viable option to force states to act against climate change?"
FWO project led by Stefaan Smis (administrative promotor) and Dorothée Cambou (co-promotor)
2021-2024