How to build peace locally?
Josefine Ulbrich , Rojan Bolling , Karlijn Muiderman | 03 March 2025Engaging with local non-state actors provides opportunities for peacebuilding, especially in places where the state is absent and solutions should be sought within communities. In the third online debate of the Knowledge Platform Security & Ru...
▶Practice, don’t preach: getting serious about inclusive development
Saskia Hollander, Rojan Bolling | February 25, 2025High levels of economic growth are not sufficient to reach the bottom 40%. Despite this being an increasingly accepted view, policies to promote inclusiveness often remain empty shells as existing power structures are unchallenged. If we want to r...
▶List of Frameworks for Conflict Analysis
Rojan Bolling | January 21, 2025List of sources for conflict and context analysis frameworks, outlining organisations with their corresponding analytical frameworks
▶A comprehensive overview of conflict and fragility
Rojan Bolling | January 19, 2025The review of 88 frameworks for doing context analysis, originating from a broad range of sectors including development, military, research, policy and economics, shows that there are four aspects of analytical models that cover the breadth and de...
▶Model or straitjacket? Doing context analysis on fragile or conflict-affected states
Rojan Bolling | January 19, 2025In the complex contexts of fragile or conflict-affected states, where international interventions can easily influence power relations, good context analysis is crucial. Systematically mapping these contexts allows international actors to work eff...
▶Rojan Bolling
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Rojan is a knowledge broker for Sahel Watch, the Inclusive Economy Africa, and the Inclusive Economy Europe programmes at The Broker. Rojan has a degree in social and cultural anthropology from VU University Amsterdam, where he gained a Master of Science specializing in Human Security. He is broadly interested in the field of international development, specific topics of interest include human security, peacebuilding, nationalist politics and conflict prevention. He has also been involved in The Broker's work for various knowledge platforms on Security Rule of Law, Inclusive Development (INCLUDE), and Food & Business.




