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 investigates long-term and cyclical dynamics of conflict and peace in the Great Lakes Region, particularly Burundi and Rwanda.
Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Lidewyde uses anthropological lenses in combination with insights from peace and conflict studies, migration studies, psychology and psychiatry to come to new insights about the long-term and intergenerational effects of conflict on children, young people and families. She recently published a photo-ethnography entitled TRACES with photographer Marieke Maagdenberg, a book that points to conflict-affected cultural repertoires as reflecting how the history of war in Burundi affects second-generation migrants in Europe. She is the principal investigator of two ongoing projects; in Rwanda concerning intergenerational resilience and anticipatory practices in conflict and natural disaster, and in Burundi exploring entanglements of cyclical conflict and mental health problems and care. Lidewyde is also the convenor of the ASCL Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Conflict continuities.
Associate professor
- African Studies Centre
- Scientific staff
- Berckmoes L.H. & Maagenberg M. (2024), Traces. ASCL occasional publications no. 49. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL).
- Berckmoes L.H. & Maagdenberg M.R., Afterlives of violent conflict. Afterlives. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). [blog entry].
- Tuyishimire B., Kwaks J.M. & Berckmoes L.H. (2024), “Our children are dead”: past and anticipated adversity shaping caregiving and cultural reproduction among Banyamulenge refugee families in Rwanda, Genealogy 8(3): 119.
- Berckmoes L.H. & Tize C. (Eds.) (2024), Family, generation and change in the context of crisis. Genealogy. Basel: M/DPI.
- Berckmoes L.H. (2024), Ter voorbereiding van het ergst denkbare: opvoeding te midden van oorlogsdreiging en hoop, Impact Magazine 8(4): 6-9.
- 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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