CREG

Members

Coordinators

Déborah Brosteaux

Déborah V. Brosteaux holds a PhD in Philosophy. She is a scientific collaborator at the FNRS, affiliated with the Centre for Research in Philosophy at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and an associated researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin). She also teaches at several universities (ULB, Sciences Po Lille, Paris 8 / Nanterre).Her research fields include the cultural study of affects in wartime, the relationship between aesthetics and politics, and 20th-century political philosophies of desire. She completed a doctoral thesis in philosophy on 20th-century German authors (Benjamin, Sebald, Theweleit,...

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Coline Maestracci

Coline Maestracci is a PhD candidate at CEVIPOL. Her doctoral research focuses on the return to civilian life of Ukrainian combatants from the Donbas war. She adopts a microsociological approach and focuses on the analysis of individual trajectories to understand the reconfiguration of life spheres after a combat experience.Contact Coline Maestracci

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Aude Merlin

Aude Merlin is a lecturer in Political Science, a member of CEVIPOL, and a specialist in Russia and the Caucasus. She defended her PhD at Sciences Po Paris in 2006 on identity transformations in the North Caucasus.After working extensively on the Chechen conflict, she has focused her research on the trajectories of combatants in the conflicts of the South Caucasus, while also examining issues related to representations and the memory of conflicts. In parallel, she has engaged in research on the Chechen diaspora.Contacter...

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Jérémiah Vervoort

Jérémiah Vervoort is a PhD candidate in Legal Sciences at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Université libre de Bruxelles and is affiliated with the Centre for Research in Criminal Law (CRDP). He is also a member of the Centre for Research on the Experience of War (CREG), which he joined in 2022.His main field of interest is international criminal law, and more specifically the issue of colonial crimes. After completing a Master’s degree with a specialization in criminal and civil law, he obtained an LL.M in Public...

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Academic

Thomas Berns

Thomas Berns teaches political philosophy and Renaissance philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Philosopher of politics, laws and norms in the broad sense, he is among other things the author of Gouverner sans gouverner. Une archéologie politique de la statistique (PUF, 2009), Du courage. Une histoire philosophique (Editions des Belles Lettres, 2010) and La guerre des philosophes (PUF, 2019). His current work focuses on new forms of normativity. Contact Thomas Berns

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Pieter Lagrou

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Pierre-Guillaume Méon

Pierre-Guillaume Méon has been Professor of Economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) since 2004. He obtained his PhD in 1999 from the Université Robert Schuman (Strasbourg, France). His work is in the field of political economy, with contributions on the political economy of monetary policy, corruption, and democratic transitions. His work touches upon cultural economics too, with work on the economics of religion and literary prizes. He has published in international peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Development Economics, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal...

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Christian Olsson

Christian Olsson is a Professor of International Relations at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He is the director of the REPI research center (Research and Studies in International Politics) and a member of CREG (Centre for Research on the Experience of War).His research interests focus primarily on armed conflicts and military interventions, particularly in the Greater Middle East, the historical sociology of security practices, and the role of private military companies in recent military interventions, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq, where he has conducted field research. He is currently...

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Damien Scalia

Damien Scalia is a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology and Director of the Centre for Research in Criminal Law. He co-leads CREG.After conducting research on sentences handed down by international criminal courts as well as on prison law, he is now leading a large-scale research project on the national and international penal experience of individuals convicted of international crimes. He has been a visiting researcher at Columbia Law School and the University of Oxford, and has been or is a visiting professor at various universities...

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Jihane Sfeir

Jihane Sfeir is a historian of the modern Arab world and a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She is the founder of the Observatoire des Mondes Arabe et Musulman (OMAM). A researcher attached to REPI (Recherche en Enseignement et Politique Internationale), she teaches the history of the Arab world, the Ottoman Empire and relations between Europe and the Arab world. Her research and publications focus on Palestinian refugees, archives, history, political thought and memory in the Arab world, with a particular focus on Lebanon. Her publications include :...

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Christophe Wasinski

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Postdoctoral Researcher

Juliette Lafosse

Graduated in philosophy, ethics and political science, Juliette Lafosse has a doctorate in political philosophy. Author of a thesis entitled "Faire droit à la guerre: une lecture juridique de la Première guerre mondiale", her main research subjects are the First World War and the meaning of international law, the conceptual relationship of war to law, the legal pacifism, neutrality, etc. Assistant professor at EPHEC University and guest lecturer at Saint Louis Brussels University, she is also a substitute teacher at the Free University of Brussels and scientific collaborator of the...

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Marie Wilmet

Marie Wilmet is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Université libre de Bruxelles, affiliated with the Centre for Research in Criminal Law (CRDP). She defended her PhD in June 2023 at the European University Institute; her dissertation focused on the contribution of procedural rights to gender justice in international criminal law. Through a socio-legal study of the participation of victims of forced marriage in Case 002 before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, her thesis analyzed the substantive, procedural, and institutional prerequisites...

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Phd Student

Fanny Arnulf

Fanny Arnulf is a PhD student and assistant in political science at ULB. Trained at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art Dramatique de Montpellier (ENSAD), she participated in different artistic productions before starting a PhD in political science in 2019, attached to CEVIPOL. Her research focuses on the Middle East and Latin America and examines the link between art and resistance in marginalized spaces. Fanny is currently writing a thesis on theatre as a tool of resistance in the favelas in Brazil and the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Her research...

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Géraldine Debard-Feyeux

PhD student in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences (University Jean Moulin Lyon 3-France) in the Louis Josserand research team, member of the Research Group on the War Experience (ULB- Belgium) and of the "Cercle des doctorants" of the Unesco Chair (Lyon-France), her research focuses on the criminal qualification of international terrorism by an international criminal jurisdiction. Contact Géraldine Debard-Feyeux

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Kheda Djanaralieva

Since October 2023, Kheda Djanaralieva has been a PhD researcher at the Centre for International Law and Applied Sociology of International Law (FNRS Research Fellow). After obtaining a Master’s degree in Public and International Law (2022, ULB), she completed an advanced Master’s in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (2023).Under the supervision of Professor Vaios Koutroulis, Kheda’s doctoral research focuses on prolonged occupations and the impact of the passage of time on the rules applicable to situations of occupation.

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Ekaterina Gloriozova

Ekaterina Gloriozova holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from ULB and is a temporary lecturer and researcher at the University of Lille (CERAPS).Her current research focuses, on the one hand, on the experience of war and the memory of Russian veterans of the Chechen wars, and, on the other hand, on the political representations of ordinary citizens in Russia following the outbreak of the full-scale war against Ukraine on February 24, 2022.Contact Ekaterina Gloriozova

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Anita Khachaturova

Anita Khachaturova is a researcher at the Centre for the study of politics (Cecipol) at the Free University of Brussels (ULB). She conducts a doctoral research on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in which she explores the local socio-political dynamics cross-cutting the Armenian society of Nagorno-Karabakh after the defeat in the 2020 war and the following erosion of the de facto state. Her research focuses in particular on the role of emotions and affects in the expression of political identities. Over the last four years she has conducted several ethnographic field works...

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Loujaine Laamal

Holding a Master’s degree in Geopolitics from the French Institute of Geopolitics, I am currently pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Aude Merlin.My research focuses on the Chechen diaspora in Europe, particularly on the construction of its identities and memories, as well as on political and military opposition to Kadyrov. I also study the effects of the war in Ukraine on the resurgence and restructuring of opposition movements, as well as on the growing unity of Caucasian peoples and non-Russian ethnic minorities in the diaspora.Contact:

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Vaida Niksaite

I received my PhD in history from the Université Libre de Bruxelles with a thesis investigating Lithuanian propaganda and crowdfunding campaigns from 1900 to 1923 with a special focus on diaspora communities. Currently a postdoctoral researcher, I work on the Polish case of building and selling a nation. More broadly, I am interested in histories of East Central Europe in global perspective, the entrepreneurial side of nationalism as well as war to peace transitions. Contact Vaida Niksaite

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Brice Prince

Brice Prince holds a Master’s degree in History from the Université libre de Bruxelles (2021). He was awarded the Charles De Coster Prize in 2021 for his thesis on international solidarity in Canada during the First World War.In his research, he is particularly interested in the concept of “war godmothers,” international solidarity, and transatlantic relations throughout the 20th century.He recently completed a documentary research project, in partnership with the Centre for the History of Law and Legal Anthropology and the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, focusing on the

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Neira Sabanovic

Neira Sabanovic is a PhD student in political science at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Université libre de Bruxlles and is affiliated to the Centre d'Etude de la Vie Politique (CEVIPOL). During her studies in political science at the ULB, she focused her research on the Western Balkans region, in particular in her master thesis on the instrumentalization of ethnic identities in the political discourse of Milorad Dodik in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Neira Sabanovic holds a Master's degree in Political Science from the Université libre de Bruxelles and...

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Vladimir Semenoff

Vladimir Semenoff is a PhD candidate, holding a Master’s degree in History (2022, ULB) as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Slavic Studies (2024, ULB). His doctoral research focuses on the industrialization of the Donbas region by Western powers between 1880 and 1920.By returning to the origins of the economic development of the Don basin, he seeks to understand the transformation of a previously sparsely populated steppe into an international industrial hub. More than an industrial history, this project aims to describe the relationships built over the decades between local...

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Associated researcher

Mohamed Fahmi

Mohamed Fahmi holds a PhD in Information and Communication Sciences (ULB). His research focuses on jihadist propaganda and terrorism. He teaches terrorism analysis at Université Paris 8 / Nouveau Collège d’Études Politiques.He works as an Islamologist within the Federal Judicial Police. He also served as an expert in the trial related to the March 22, 2016 attacks.Contact

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Amélie Faucheux

After studying philosophy, focusing on the theoretical thinking behind crimes against humanity, and a Masters in Human Rights on genocide prevention, Amélie Faucheux undertook a doctoral thesis in sociology and psychosociology in a cognitive science laboratory (Institut Jean Nicod, EHESS/PSL Paris) on the processes at the root of the intimate dimension of the 1994 extermination of the Rwandan Tutsis: Proximal relations between executioners and victims or the unprecedented of a mass crime committed in the heart of neighbourhoods, marked by ruptures in alliances and kinship. She spent over a year...

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Julien Pomarède

Julien is Assistant Professor in International Politics at the University of Liège. Prior to this position, Julien has been post-doctoral researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. His work focuses on the Western way of war from a critical perspective, especially in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations. Profil ULiege Contacter Julien Pomarède

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Giulia Prelz Oltramonti

Giulia Prelz Oltramonti is an Assistant Professor in Political Science/ International Relations at ESPOL (Université Catholique de Lille) and a Research Fellow at the REPI (Université libre de Bruxelles). She works on conflict protraction and on contested sovereignties and statehood, exploring subjects related to alternative diplomatic practices, boundary creation, and political economy of conflict and statemaking. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Université libre de Bruxelles and a MA in Conflict, Security and Development from King's College London.

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Ornella Rovetta

Ornella Rovetta holds a PhD in History from the Université libre de Bruxelles and is a researcher at the State Archives of Belgium as part of the research project “Résolution-Métis.” She is the author of Un génocide au tribunal. Le Rwanda et la justice internationale (2019) and co-editor, with Pieter Lagrou, of Defeating Impunity, Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914 (2021).Her research focuses on the history of international justice and Central Africa. She is a member of the Centre for Research on Modern and Contemporary Worlds (ULB) and...

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Stefano D'Aloia

Stefano D’Aloia is a PhD researcher at the Centre for International Law and Applied Sociology of International Law since November 2020 (mini-ARC ULB fellow). He holds Master’s degrees in Law (2013, ULiège) and in Economics (2016, HEC-ULiège), as well as an advanced Master’s in Tax Law (2014, ULiège) and a specialized Master’s in International Law (2019, ULB).In his doctoral research, conducted under the supervision of Anne Lagerwall, Stefano examines the argument of respect for human rights invoked to justify the recognition of acts adopted in territories under unlawful occupation (e.g....

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