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Gauthier Marchais is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science and has a background in political science and development studies. His research concentrates on how societies transform in war, with a multi-disciplinary perspective. He is part of the Governance Cluster at IDS.
Gauthier’s research combines several disciplinary approaches and uses qualitative and quantitative methods to study how societies transform in war. His doctoral work focused on communal dynamics of violent mobilization and social transformation in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is finalizing two papers on the determinants of participation in violent collective action and institutional transformation in contexts of protracted violent conflict.