With 10 years of experience in conflict analysis and International Studies, I research and analyze Identity mobilization in African politics. I am also interested in discourse analysis, the security and development nexus, and peacekeeping in Africa.
Currently, I am a Member at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. I worked as a Program Officer with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the US-based Social Science Research Council (SSRC). I obtained my PhD from the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.
My book Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023) is available now.
I hope you will enjoy learning more about my work on this website.
I do love salsa dancing.
Interests
International Relations Theory
Comparative Politics, & Development Studies
African Politics & Security Studies
War & Identity in Global Politics
Discourse Analysis
Race, Decoloniality and Postcoloniality in Global Politics
Avec 10 ans d'expérience dans l'analyse des conflits et les études internationales, je recherche et analyse la mobilisation identitaire dans les politiques africaines. Je m'intéresse également à l'analyse du discours, au lien entre sécurité et développement et au maintien de la paix en Afrique.
Je suis actuellement Commissaire à la Commission de l'immigration et du statut de réfugié du Canada. J'ai travaillé en tant que chargé de programme pour le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSH) et le Social Science Research Council (SSRC) basé aux États-Unis. J'ai obtenu mon doctorat à l'École d'études politiques de l'Université d'Ottawa.
Mon livre Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023) est disponible dès maintenant.
J'espère que vous apprécierez découvrir mon travail sur ce site web.
J'adore danser la salsa.
Interêts
Théorie des Relations Internationales
Politique Comparée et Études de développement
Politique Africaine et Études de sécurité
Guerre et Identité
Analyse de discours
Race, décolonialité et postcolonialité
Cover of my book with the University of Wisconsin Press
Butterfly wing design of the CAR flag, design by Jordan Wannemacher
Focusing on violent struggles in the Central African Republic between 2012 and 2019, Gino Vlavonou explores the social practices, discursive strategies, and government policies that emerged in the relentless project of African state building.
Read my latest co-authored report / Accédez à mon plus récent rapport corédigé
Read my latest academic article / Accédez à mon plus récent article académique
Academic article / Article académique
“A State of (Dis)unity and Uncertain Belonging: The Central African Republic and its Muslim Minority.”
27 May 2022
Academic article / Article académique
12 July 2023
8 October 2020
“La Centrafrique : Un conflit mouvant entre rupture et continuité.” Diplomatie: Affaires Stratégiques et Relations Internationales, no. 48 : 75-77.
Central African Republic: From Sectarian Violence to Progress on Religious Freedom by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
9 July 2021.
The two rounds of presidential elections in December 2020 and March 2021 resulted in the re-election of Faustin Archange Touadéra as President of the Central African Republic. Armed groups disrupted the electoral process in several areas, but the armed forces of CAR with support from the UN mission, Russia and Rwanda were able to sufficiently stabilise the situation for the elections to be successfully concluded.
14 Avril 2021
In late May 2021, CIPS scholars hosted a virtual workshop on the topic of middle powers, liberal internationalism, and the changing geopolitical environment around UN peace operations. Workshop participants joined us from six different countries to present original research papers. These papers addressed a variety of questions about how changes in global order are likely to affect the politics of peacekeeping, with a primary focus on their implications for ‘middle powers’ like Canada. The four blogs in this symposium are based on those research papers and they explore the normative, institutional, and practical implications of these changes more deeply.
13 September 2021
Review of the book Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic, by Louisa Lombard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 253 pp. CAD$114.95 (hardback). ISBN: 9781108478779, Africa Spectrum.
10 June 2021
International Sociological Association (ISA)
African Studies Association (ASA)