analysing conflict

Chitra Nagarajan engages in conflict analysis and research, in areas including climate security, civilian protection, gender, peace and security, and security force again. Some key research themes include:

• civilian protection and harm mitigation, including around armed groups, community militias, and state security forces;

• gender, peace and security dynamics;

• interactions between COVID-19 and conflict, gender, and social inclusion dynamics, including gender-based violence;

• intra- and inter-communal violence between farmers, fishers, and pastoralists;

• interactions between climate change and insecurity, for example in the Lake Chad Basin region, Mali, and Somalia;

• realities, challenges, and resilience of people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) in conflict-affected northeast Nigeria;

• intersections of feminist and queer perspectives on peace and security;

• relations between civil society and security forces in Chad, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and The Gambia; and

• reintegration of people formerly associated with armed groups.

As part of these processes, she has managed teams of up to 33 people to collect qualitative and quantitative data. She has also co-authored guidance on mainstreaming conflict sensitivity, gender, and social inclusion in conflict research.