Staff
Clara Schmitz-Pranghe
Researcher
bicc - Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies
Clara Schmitz-Pranghe
Researcher
Contact by phone
+49 228 91196-78
Contact by e-mail
schmitz-pranghe@bicc.deBiography
Clara graduated in Regional Sciences of Latin America at the University of Cologne, a course of studies which combines political science, economics, Ibero–American history and Spanish. During her studies she spent one semester in Spain and several months in Mexico and Peru. In her thesis, she examined the structural change of violence in the post-conflict context of Central America analysing Central American youth gangs. In 2006, she joined bicc and worked since then on various projects in the field of conflict studies and forced migration studies.
Research profile
Clara's research focuses on the topic of forced migration, in particular, on local integration, return and reintegration as well as on transnational mobility and networks and has conducted field research in Germany, Peru, Ecuador, Uganda, Thailand, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. Over the past years, she investigated reintegration trajectories of returnees to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia in the framework of the multi-year qualitative research project “Trajectories of reintegration: The impact of displacement, migration and return on social change”. She's currently working on the qualitative research project “Return and belonging after conflict-induced displacement (RE-MIG) focusing on Western Balkan countries.
- Forced displacement, local integration, return and (re-) integration
- Transnational networks and mobility
- Non-state armed actors
Project involvement
Past projects
- Conference “Migration and Displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Security Migration Nexus II”
- African migrant organizations (MO) in North Rhine-Westphalia – Forms of organization and activities
- Ethnic Federalism – Institutional preconditions for stability and conflict settlement
- Commercial provision of security in development countries
- The Security-Migration Nexus - Challenges and Opportunities of African Migration to EU Countries
- Protected rather than protracted—Strengthening refugees and peace
- Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change
- Return and belonging (RE-MIG) - Notions of return after conflict-induced conflict
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