PhD research: Urban insecurity in the Katanga copper belt

Date
January 2024 to December 2028
Keywords
organisations
security & insecurity
cities
Institutions
Université de Lubumbashi (DRC)
Research fields
Law and Political Science

The research seeks to understand how responses to urban insecurity are organized in two cities in the Katanga copper belt. It is part of a comprehensive inductive-qualitative approach and uses semi-structured interviews as a technique for collecting empirical data from key stakeholders, including public security officials, government officials, local managers, and residents of certain neighborhoods in the cities of Lubumbashi and Kolwezi. Its objective is to analyze the co-production of security through mapping the strategies and means implemented and the mediatization of this insecurity.