Dr. Kristof Titeca

The Global Initiative Network

GIN Member

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp

Dr. Kristof Titeca is a senior lecturer (associate professor) at the University of Antwerp, Institute of Development Policy. His interested in organised crime are rooted in his work on governance, conflict and smuggling in Uganda and DR Congo, issues on which he has published extensively in high-ranking journals. He has carried out extensive field research in this region since 2003.

He obtained his PhD in Political Sciences at Ghent University (Conflict Research Group, 2007), was a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics (2014), and Makerere University, Uganda (2004, 2011-2012). He has conducted policy work for a variety of donors, such as DFID, UNDP, Norwegian Refugee Council, International Alert, and so on. His latest books are ‘Negotiating Public Services in the Congo’ (with Tom De Herdt, Zed Books), and ‘Rebel Lives. Photographs from inside the Lord’s Resistance Army’. He tweets at @Kristof.Titeca.

Publications

Titeca, K., & Patrick, E. (2019) Outside the Frame: Looking Beyond the Myth of Garamba’s LRA’s Ivory–Terrorism Nexus. Conservation and Society 17(3): 258-269.

Titeca, K. and Edmond, P. (2019) The political economy of oil in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Corruption and regime control, The Extractive Industries and Society, 6(2): 542-551.

Titeca, K. (2019) Illegal ivory trade as transnational organized crime? An empirical study into ivory traders in Uganda, British Journal of Criminology, 59 (1): 24-44.

Titeca, K. (2018) Understanding the illegal ivory trade and traders: evidence from Uganda, International Affairs, 94(5): 1077-1099

Twijnstra, R., & Titeca, K. (2016) Everything changes to remain the same? State and tax reform in South Sudan. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 54 (2): 263-292.

Twijnstra, R., Hilhorst, D., & Titeca, K. (2014) Trade networks and the practical norms of taxation at a border crossing between South Sudan and Northern Uganda. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 8:3, 382-399

Titeca, K. (with C. Kimanuka) (2012) Walking in the dark. Informal cross-border trade in the Great Lakes Region. London: International Alert, 49p.

Schomerus, M., Titeca, K. (2012) Deals and Dealings: Inconclusive peace and treacherous trade along the South Sudan-Uganda border. Afrika Spectrum, 47(2): 5-31.

Titeca, K., Vlassenroot, K. (2012) Rebels without borders in the Rwenzori borderland? A biography of the Allied Democratic Forces. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 6(1): 154-176.

Titeca, K. (2012) Tycoons and contraband: informal cross-border trade in West Nile, north-western Uganda. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 6(1): 47-63.

Titeca, K., Joossens, L, & Raw, M. (2011) Cigarette smuggling and war economies in central and eastern Africa. Tobacco Control 20(3): 226-232.

Titeca, K., De Herdt, T. (2010) Regulation, cross-border trade and practical norms in West Nile, north-western Uganda. Africa 80(4): 573-594.

Titeca, K. (2010) Pouvoir et commerce: l’Ouganda et le commerce transfrontralier avec la RDC et le Soudan, in: Marysse, S., Reyntjens, F. et S. Vandeginste (eds.) L’ Afrique des Grands Lacs. Annuaire 2009-2010. Paris: L’Harmattan, 371-404

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