Lidewyde Berckmoes
Associate professor
- Name
- Dr. L.H. Berckmoes
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3445
- l.h.berckmoes@asc.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6378-6504
For an overview of Lidewyde Berckmoes' research and publications, visit her profile on the ASCL website.
As associate professor and senior researcher at the African Studies Centre Leiden, Lidewyde Berckmoes employs life-course and intergenerational perspectives to increase understanding of cyclical dynamics of conflict and peace in the Great Lakes Region, particularly Burundi and Rwanda.
Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Lidewyde uses anthropological perspectives while building collaborations with colleagues in migration studies, medical anthropology, psychology and psychiatry to come to new insights in long-term effects of conflict on children, young people and families. Her PhD study describes social practices that shape dynamics of ongoing (mis)trust in aftermath of conflict in Burundi (VU University Amsterdam, 2014). Subsequently she worked on various postdoc projects, including on transnational parenting, SRHR among young refugees, intergenerational transmission of trauma, and conflict heritage among diaspora youth. Currently, Lidewyde acts as principal investigator of the research project Pedagogies of peace and conflict in the Great Lakes region, for which she collaborates with the University of Rwanda, and is convenor of the ASCL Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Conflict continuities. She teaches various courses on research methodology in the BA and MA African Studies.
Associate professor
- Afrika-Studiecentrum
- Wetenschappelijke staf
- Berckmoes L.H. & Maagenberg M. (2024), Traces. ASCL occasional publications no. 49. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL).
- Berckmoes L.H. & Anonymous (2023), Young protesters’ ambivalence about violence in the 2015 crisis in Burundi: local legacies of conflict and generational change, Peacebuilding 11(3): 302-316.
- Berckmoes L.H. (20 June 2023), Lost and found: Africa in Indonesia. ASCL Africanist Blog. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). [blog entry].
- Yvette R. & Berckmoes L.H. (2022), Making ‘The Process’: sexual vulnerability and Burundian refugee boys and young men’ strategies for onward migration from Nakivale refugee settlement in Uganda, Journal of Refugee Studies 35(3): 1186-1203.
- Berckmoes L.H. (2022), In the aftermath of atrocities: research on the intergenerational transmission of trauma and violence . In: Holá B., Nzitatira H.N. & Weerdesteijn M. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of atrocity crimes. The Oxford Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 555-578.
- Dietz A.J., Ehrhardt D.W.L. & Berckmoes L.H. (2022), Rwanda at 60. ASCL Infosheet. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). [working paper].
- Dietz A.J., Ehrhardt D.W.L. & Berckmoes L.H. (2022), Burundi at 60. ASCL Infosheet no. 54. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). [working paper].
- Berckmoes L.H. (2022), Conflict and parenting in Burundi. In: Selin H. (Ed.) Parenting across cultures: childrearing, motherhood and fatherhood in non-Western cultures. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science no. 12 Cham: Springer. 227-242.
- Ruzibiza Y., Berckmoes L.H., Neema S. & Reis R. (2021), Lost in freedom: ambivalence on sexual freedom among Burundian adolescents living in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 29(1): 1889750.
- Kyei J.R.K.O. & Berckmoes L.H. (2021), Political vigilante groups in Ghana: violence or democracy? , Africa Spectrum 55(3): 321-338 .
- Berckmoes L.H. & urner S. (2021), Pursuing futures through children: crisis, social reproduction, and transformation in Burundi’s transnational families, Migration Studies 9(3): 1399-1417.
- Berckmoes L.H., Rosenkrantz Lindegaard M. & Rodgers D. (2021), Introduction: the longitudinal ethnography of violence, Conflict and Society. Advances in Research 7(1): 96-106.
- Charak R., Jong J.T.V.M. de, Berckmoes L.H., Ndayisaba H. & Reis R. (2021), Intergenerational maltreatment in parent–child dyads from Burundi, Africa: associations among parental depression and connectedness, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and aggression in children, Journal of Traumatic Stress 34(5): 943-954.
- Hendriks T.D., Reis R., Sostakova M. & Berkcmoes L.H. (2020), Violence and vulnerability: children’s strategies and the logic of violence in Burundi, Children & Society 34(1): 31-45.
- Turner S. & Berckmoes L.H. (2020), Reticent digital diasporas in times of crisis, African Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World : 1-26.
- Reis R., Crone M.R. & Berckmoes L.H. (2020), Unpacking context and culture in mental health pathways of child and adolescent refugees. In: Song S. & Ventevogel P. (Eds.), Child, adolescent and family refugee mental health : a global perspective. Cham: Springer. 37-51.
- Tize C., Berckmoes L.H., Jong J.T.V.M. de & Reis R. (2020), Charlie Hebdo as a critical event in a secondary school: Muslim students’ complex and multilayered positioning before and after the attack, Transcultural Psychiatry : 1-13.
- Berckmoes L.H. (2020), De toekomst van oorlog en vrede in Afrika: drie trends, Clingendael Spectator : .
- Westeneng J., Reis R. & Berkmoes L.H. (2020), The effectiveness of sexual and reproductive health education in Burundi: policy brief. Paris, Buenos Aires, Dakar: Health and Education Resource Centre, Unesco. [policy paper].
- Eichelsheim V., Berckmoes L.H., Hola B., Rutayisire T. & Richters A. (2019), Before my time?: addressing the intergenerational legacies of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Intervention. Journal of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict Affected Areas 17(1): 31-39.
- Maes E., Robert L., Pauwels L., Blokland A., Pham T.H., Blander R. de., Deblock M., Berckmoes L., Kruijff L. de, Spaan P., Delannoy D., Strzoda I., Telle E., Blom M. & Wartna B. (2019), SOC - Sex Offenders in and out of Crime : recidivism, criminal careers and desistance. Brussel: BELSPO.
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