Biography
Gauthier Marchais is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (see IDS profile here). His research centres on the effects of violent conflict on societies, with a particular focus on education. He is part of the Governance cluster at IDS.
Gauthier’s research combines several disciplinary approaches to study the impact of violent conflict and intersecting crises on societies. At IDS, he convenes two MA teaching modules and supervises MA and PhD theses.
Gauthier’s research focuses on education in crisis and conflict-affected contexts. He is the principal investigator of the EU funded research project entitled ‘’, and the co-Principal Investigator (with Professor Samuel Matabishi, ISP Bukavu) of the GPE-KIX funded project entitled ‘’.
Gauthier previously led the and research projects. The main outputs can be found in this (see ), and articles on , and the . Gauthier also co-authored a book on , which won the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award of the Comparative and International Education Society.
Gauthier is interested in the wider question of social and institutional transformation during war. He has worked on: 1) the communal dynamics of armed mobilization and social transformation (through his PhD, see this working paper on );Ìý 2) Historical continuities in violent conflict, see paper on , and working paper on ), 3) the environmental impact of violent conflict, see Working Paper on , and article on ; 4) methodologies to study violent conflict, for example on .
Gauthier has also written about race in society and research. He published a book in French on whiteness in contemporary society, Ìý, and wrote about race and contemporary academic research on the African continent, , and . He also contributed to a documentary on this question, , directed by Stephan Hilpert, which won the audience prize at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival.
He is a scientific advisor at Marakuja Kivu Research, a non-profit organization specialized in research in conflict-affected areas, based in Goma, DRC.
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Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies