Peer Schouten

Peace and Development Research
PhD candidate

About

Peer Schouten (1983) is a PhD researcher specialized in research on security governance and resource extraction in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is also the editor-in-chief of Theory Talks

Peer has studied Language philosophy (BA) at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), Portuguese Studies (BA) at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) and the University of Coimbra (Portugal), and holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). He has done consultancy work for a variety of NGO’s and international organizations on conflict, security, and mining in South Sudan and the DRC.

Speaks Dutch (Native), English, Portuguese, Spanish and French.

Areas of interest

Sub-Saharan Africa, Security governance, private security companies, extractive industries, gold mining, illicit mining, informal economy, Democratic Republic of Congo, international relations theory.

Current research

PhD thesis on private security companies in post-conflict DRC and interrelations with mining, state-building, and post-conflict transformation.

Teaching and tutoring

International relations theory; conflict, natural resources and poverty; private security companies; South Sudan, African Great Lakes Region.