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Jairo Munive Rincon

PhD, Social Science in Development Studies and Public Administration
Project researcher, research unit on Migration
T: +45 3269 8707, E: , F: +45 3269 8600

Expertise

Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants; Youth employment and socio-economic reintegration in fragile states; forced migration and displacement; Liberia, Sudan, Colombia.

Selected projects and programmes

Ex-combatants in South Sudan: Exploring the link between socio-economic reintegration, armed violence and security. Read more about the project here.

The political and economic dimensions of the DDR program in Liberia. Analysis of ex-combatants cross-border mobility and networks and their importance for conflict, security and development in West Africa (PhD-project).

Selected publications

Munive, Jairo (2011) A Politic Economic History of the Liberian State, Forced Labour and Armed Mobilization. Journal of Agrarian Studies, 11, (3) Special issue edited by Paul Richards and Christopher Cramer, Blackwell

Munive, Jairo (2010) Questioning Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia. Armed Mobilization, Localized Histories of Conflict and The Power of Labels. PhD Dissertation, Saxo Institute, Copenhagen University.

Munive, Jairo (2010) The Army of Unemployed Young People. In: Young, 18, (3) Sage.

Frederiksen, Bodil and Jairo Munive (2010) Young Men and Women in Africa: Conflicts, enterprise and aspiration. Introduction to a special issue on African Youth. With Folke Bodil. In: Young, 18, (3).

Munive, Jairo (2010). If we fight again, we will fight about land. Working Paper, 05. Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies.

Selected commissioned works

Munive Jairo (2011) Youth Economic Empowerment in Fragile and Post-Conflict States. A guide to a Rapidly Moving Field. Plan Finland.

Munive Jairo (2008) Youth Employment in Fragile States, commissioned by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen

Munive Jairo (2006) Employment Opportunities and Working Conditions of Rural and Peri Urban Youth in Liberia; International Labour Organization and United Nations Development Program, Monrovia.

Selected research related activities

Collaborate with the United Nations Disarmament Research Unit
(UNIDIR)

Participate in the international research network “Conflict
Research Group” directed by Mr. Koen Vlassenroot-University
of Ghent

Member of the Households in Conflict Network

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