Christoph Vogel

Christoph Vogel is an investigator and writer specialising in conflict and politics in Central Africa. Based on over 15 years research experience, 7 years of fieldwork, and 1000+ qualitative interviews, surveys and collaborative research projects, he has extensively published about conflict and politics in Central Africa in academic journals, for broader publics and in official capacity as a former UN Security Council expert. A globally recognised specialist on Central Africa and the Great Lakes region, Christoph regularly fields media inquiries and provides advise to humanitarian and international organizations, embassies and NGOs. Exposed to international and intercultural settings since childhood, Christoph’s work has a strong collaborative and multilingual focus and is informed by critical theoretical and epistemic foundations and decidedly decolonial ethics and methodology. Through the Suluhu platform, Christoph promotes young researchers from Central Africa.

Featured work

• Articles & reports

  Christoph Vogel & Josaphat Musamba (2022) Towards a Politics of Collaborative Worldmaking, Ethics, Epistemologies and Mutual Positionalities in Conflict Research. Ethnography, online first.

  Joshaphat Musamba, Christoph Vogel & Koen Vlassenroot (2022) It Takes Two to Tango. Armed Politics, Combatant Agency and the Half-Life of DDR Programmes in the Congo. GIC network, Ghent University.

  Christoph Vogel (2021) Rebels, Doctors and Merchants of Violence. How the fight against Ebola became part of the conflict in eastern DRC. Congo Research Group, New York.

  Christoph Vogel (2021) The politics of incontournables: entrenching patronage networks in eastern Congo’s mineral markets, Review of African Political Economy 48(168): 178–195.

  Christoph Vogel et al. (2021) The Landscape of Armed Groups in Eastern Congo: Missed opportunities, Protracted Insecurity and Selffulfilling Prophecies. Kivu Security Tracker, New York/Goma.

  Christoph Vogel et al. (2020) For the army, with the army, like the army, The rise of the NDC–Rénové in the eastern Congo. Congo Research Group, New York.

  Christoph Vogel & Jason K. Stearns (2018) Kivu’s Intractable Security Conundrum, revisited, African Affairs 117(469): 695–707.

  Jason K. Stearns & Christoph Vogel (2015) The Landscape of Armed Groups in the Eastern Congo. Center on International Cooperation, New York.

  Justine Brabant & Christoph Vogel (2014) In Their Eyes: The perception of aid and humanitarian workers by irregular combatants in the Democratic Republic of Congo. International NGO Safety Organisation, London.

• Books & chapters

  Christoph N. Vogel (2022) Conflict Minerals Inc. War, Profit and White Saviourism in eastern Congo. Hurst / Oxford University Press.

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