Dr Krijn Peters

Research Highlights

1. Jenkins, J., Mokuwa, E., Peters, K., & Richards, P. (2021). Rural–urban connectivity strengthens agrarian peace: Evidence from a study of gender and motorcycle taxis in Sierra Leone. Journal of Agrarian Change, 21(4), 776-795.

   https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12423, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56922
2. Jenkins, J., Peters, K., & Richards, P. (2020). At the end of the feeder road: Upgrading rural footpaths to motorcycle taxi-accessible tracks in Liberia. NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 92, 100333

   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.njas.2020.100333, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55183
3. Jenkins, J., Mokuwa, E., Peters, K., & Richards, P. (2020). Changing women's lives and livelihoods: motorcycle taxis in rural Liberia and Sierra Leone. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport, 173(2), 132-143.

   https://doi.org/10.1680/jtran.18.00162, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51812

   http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jtran.18.00162
4. Afukaar, F., Damsere-Derry, J., Peters, K., & Starkey, P. (2019). Rural Transport Services Indicators: Using a new mixed-methods methodology to inform policy in Ghana. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 3, 100074

   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2019.100074, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51813
5. Mustapha, S., Peters, K., & Tunis, N. (2018). Rural Transport Diagnostic Study in Sierra Leone - Final Report

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51973

   https://www.gov.uk/dfid-research-outputs/rural-transport-diagnostic-study-in-sierra-leone-final-report

All Research

• Victory Secured, Peace Ensured? Evaluating the medium-term impact of a 'security-first' approach in 20th Century British Counterinsurgency Campaigns. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Dennis Schmidt

• Assessing Transitional Justice Mechanisms and their potential for supporting the Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Continuum in Postwar Sierra Leone – A missed opportunity (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Gerard Clarke

• Analysing Contemporary land tenure and the impact of Land Reforms on Rural peoples’ Livelihood in face of Customary Land in Zambia. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Alison Hann

  Other supervisor: Dr Gerard Clarke

• Untitled (current)

  MSc

  Other supervisor: Prof Matthew Davies

• EG-D10 Team Project & Individual Dissertation

  The module is where this program ultimately culminates with the final development stages and realisation of a team based project (as defined at the recruitment stage) with individual aspects considered and assessed as a final dissertation submission. The nature of the dissertation will be dependent on the nature of the specialisation of the participant. During the period of this module, a preparatory period will be followed by participants spending (or utilising remote engineering techniques) a period of circa. 3 weeks in-country delivering the project, with support from academic team leads and other supporting staff, stakeholders or collaborators. This will be concluded with a debrief and final dissertation writing period.

• EG-D11 Team Project & Individual Dissertation (Engineers)

  The module is where this program culminates with the final development stages and realisation of a team based project with individual aspects considered and assessed as a final dissertation submission. The nature of the dissertation will be dependent on the nature of the specialisation of the participant. During this module, a preparatory period will be followed by participants spending (or utilising remote engineering techniques) a period of circa. 3 weeks in-country delivering the project, with support from academic team leads and other supporting staff, stakeholders or collaborators. This will be concluded with a debrief and final dissertation writing period, a group presentation and an individual viva voce.

• PO-3330 Genocide

  Genocide is considered by most to be the gravest crime against humanity. Various authors have estimated that during the twentieth century between 60 million and 120 million people were killed by premeditated acts of genocide, which targeted specific ethnic, religious, racial, or class-related groups. But why do people kill? And what can be done to prevent, punish and/or overcome this `odious scourge¿ of humankind? This module explores the nature of genocide and mass violence and seeks to discover the common historical, political, and sociological threads that unite these tragedies. In this module, students will engage with theories of genocide and mass violence and discuss a series of case studies including, among others, the near extermination of First Nations people by colonisers of the New World, the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the period of the First World War, the Holocaust (Shoah), Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and Rwanda in 1994. Further, this module will ask questions such as: why did the twentieth century witness so many occurrences of deliberate genocide, on such an unprecedented scale? What is the context for these acts of mass violence? How should genocide be defined in order to differentiate it from other forms of mass destruction? Should we consider the killings of millions of people by Communist regimes forms of genocide or do they amount to other forms of crimes against humanity?

• PO-M25 Dissertation

  Individual research based, under the guidance of appointed supervisor.

• PO-M96 Development in Practice

  We are increasingly moving towards a globalised world. Nevertheless, there are still huge socio-economic and political differences between countries and within countries. A key question for many nations in the Global South is how to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development and reduce poverty. The scholarly discipline of Development Studies has studied this important question of how to develop countries for the last 70 years or so. Over these decades many different models and approaches have been tried, by national governments, by supra-national bodies such as the World Bank or the IMF as well as by Non-Governmental Organisations and Civil Society groups, such as Oxfam or Action-Aid. In this module an overview of Development as a planned intervention is provided, and the different development models and approaches are critically assessed. Furthermore, this module offers practical skills and an introduction to development tools, aimed at enhancing the planning and management capabilities of those already working in development or wishing to become development professionals. An important focus is on skills acquisition, and there is a strong emphasis on student-led learning, planning exercises, individual and group presentations, and case-study work.

• PO-M97 Development in Practice II: Liberia fieldtrip

  PO-M96 Development in Practice - the pre-requisite to this module - offered an introduction to international development and to a variety of `tools¿ (methodologies) used within the field of development research and projects aimed at enhancing the planning and management capabilities of those already working in development or wishing to become development professionals. This module ¿ Development in Practice II: Liberia fieldwork - offers the opportunity to put these research and project skills into practice, contributing to an international development intervention focused on improving access for rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. During a three week visit to Liberia, you will have the opportunity to meet international donors, government ministries, local and international Non-Governmental Organisations, and work together with Liberian student counterparts on conducting `action¿ research in deep rural Liberia. After two or three days in the capital Monrovia, meeting with programme stakeholders, we will travel upcountry to Cuttington University, Bong County, which will be our base of operations. From here you have the opportunity to visit the rural access projects and conduct your research/contribute to the development programme. Our research projects focus on `gender mainstreaming¿; `social enterprises¿; `village savings and loans associations¿; `agricultural development¿; `livelihood diversification¿ among others. To ensure your research findings can have a real impact/influence on development practice, and to mimic development practice more generally, you will be required to formulate a Terms of Reference for your research prior to departure and deliver a project report after return from the field trip.

• PI on an ESRC/DFID funded research on Finding traction: using an 'upgrading footpaths to motorcycle taxi accessible tracks' construction and maintenance manual to increase impact and reach. 2020

• PI on a CHERISH-Digital Economy funded research on Smart and innovative transport and value-chain solutions in Kenya 2019

• Co-I on a GCRF SU funded research on Infrastructure improvements and e-mobility to enhance sustainable livelihood development in the mountain and hill regions of Nepal. 2019

• PI on a GCRF SU funded research on Urban food security, small holder farmers and motorcycle taxis. 2019

• PI on a GCRF SU funded research on At the end of the Feeder road (pilot II): assessing the socioeconomic impact of upgrading rural footpaths (baseline study). 2019

• Co-I on an Impact Initiative/DfID funded activity on the relation between urban food security in Africa’s secondary cities and rural-urban mobility using intermediate forms of transport: informing policy. 2019

• PI on a GCRF SU funded research on Marginalised Youth, Peacebuilding and Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa: how to Assess and Unlock the Potential of rural and peri-urban Motorcycle Taxi Riders to contribute to the Achievement of the Sustainable Developmen 2019

• PI on a ReCAP/DfID funded research looking at Opportunities and Obstacles for Gender Mainstreaming in rural Motorbike Taxi Services in Sierra Leone and Liberia. (2017-18) 2017

• Co-I on an EPSRC funded SU Research Impact Fund on First Aid and “Last Mile” Transportation for Burns Patients in Africa 2017

• Co-I on an EPSRC funded SU Research Impact Fund on Identifying Engineering Challenges and Potential Solutions for Track Construction for Intermediate Means of Transport as part of Sustainable and Community Driven Development in Liberia. 2017

• ReCAP/DfID International Technical Advisor for the diagnostic study on rural transport services in Sierra Leone. 2017

• ReCAP/DfID International Technical Advisor for the diagnostic study on rural transport services in Ghana. 2016

• PI on an ESRC/DfID funded research on Assessing the Impact of Track Construction for Motorbike Taxis on Poverty Alleviation and Peacebuilding in Post-war Liberia. 2015

• Associate Prof in post-war reconstruction, rural development, Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University

  2013 - Present

• Visiting Research Fellow, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping and Training Centre, Accra Ghana

  2012 - Present

• Lecturer in armed conflict and post-war reconstruction, Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University

  2010 - 2013

• Visiting Fellow International Crimes and Criminology, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, VU University, Amsterdam The Netherlands

  2010 - 2011

• Lecturer in International Development and Head of PG Teaching, Centre for Development Studies, Swansea University

  2005 - 2010

• Research Assistant, Wageningen University & Research Centre

  2001 - 2005

• Research Coordinator, Save the Children Fund UK

  2000 - 2001

• Blog: Urbanisation, motorcycle taxi transport and food-security in Africa’s ‘secondary cities’(2019) The Impact Initiative for International Development Research.
• Policy Brief (2018): Upgrading Footpaths to Motorcycle Taxi accessible Tracks: Accelerating Socio-economic Development in rural Sub-Saharan Africa
• Motorcycle taxis – the fast track to prosperity for Liberian villages (January 2019)
• At the end of the feeder road: assessing the impact of track construction for motorbike taxis on agrarian development in Liberia (The Impact Initiative)
• Policy Brief (2018): Enabling women to become Motorcycle Taxi Operators: Opportunities and Obstacles in Rural Sierra Leone
• Policy Brief (2018): Enabling women to become Motorcycle Taxi Operators: Opportunities and Obstacles in Rural Liberia 
• Motorcycles and Rural Transport in Africa (2017) video by TheWaterChannel.
• Improving rural lives through the Liberian motorbike boom (PDF, The Impact Initiative) 
• Youth, Jobs and the Role of the Public Sector in Developing Countries. Salzburg Global Seminar Newsletter.

• 2006 Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany.
• 2006 Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway.
• 2007 University of Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
• 2007 Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
• 2008 Dutch association for Criminology, the Netherlands
• 2008 International Peace Research Institute, Norway
• 2009 VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• 2009 Institute for Security Studies, South Africa
• 2009 German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Germany
• 2009 NWO-Wotro Science for Global Development, Ethiopia
• 2009 University of York, United Kingdom
• 2010 Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
• 2010 University of Sussex, United Kingdom
• 2010 University College London, United Kingdom
• 2010 Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark
• 2010 International Catalan Institute for Peace, Spain
• 2011 University of Vienna, Austria
• 2012 Sabbatical/Visiting Fellow Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Centre
• 2013 IISS, United Kingdom
• 2015 Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria
• 2016 ESRC/DFID Impact Initiative, South Africa
• 2016 Clingendael Institute for International Relations, the Netherlands
• 2017 Ministry of Roads and Highways, Ghana
• 2017 Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority, Sierra Leone
• 2017 ESRC/DFID Putting Children First, Ethiopia
• 2017 ReCAP/DFID Inter-Regional Implementation Meeting, Uganda
• 2018 Global Challenges Research Council Meeting, Kenya
• 2018 Gender Summit 14, Rwanda
• 2018 Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority, Sierra Leone
• 2018 Ministry of Public Works, Liberia
• 2018 ESRC/DFID Impact Initiative, India
• 2019 Impact Initiative for International Development Research, Kenya

• Amaechi Okonkwo: Agency or Structure? Nigerian University Students' Perspectives of Influences on Sexual Risk Taking. (PhD awarded 2009)
• Olatunji Olateju: 'Neo-Communitarianism and Speconomy as models for development in Sub-Saharan Africa. (PhD awarded 2013)
• Ibrahim Alomari: Primary Education, Conflict and Policy Implications in the Gaza Strip. (PhD awarded 2014)
• Emrah Ozdemir: Post-Conflict Statebuilding as an International Counterinsurgency Policy: a Critical Analysis of Afghanistan. (PhD awarded 2017)
• Patience Bentu: Promoting Development through Gender Equality in Politics: A case study of UNDP's "Democratic Governance for Development" Project in Nigeria. (MPhil awarded 2017)
• Benedict Koledoye: Decentralisation and the Challenges of Sustainable Development in Nigeria. (PhD awarded 2018)
• Rakiya Mamman: Social Analysis and the Development Enterprise: A case of World Health Organisation Country Programme in Nigeria' (awarded 2018)
• Ulas Inci: A Political Economy Analysis of Turkey's Agricultural Structure in the Conflict-affected region of South-eastern Anatolia. (PhD awarded 2019)
• Jack Jenkins: From Weapons to Wheels. Assessing the Impact of Track Construction for Motorbike Taxis on Rural Youth and Peacebuilding in Liberia (PHD awarded 2019)
• Christopher Morris: British Counterinsurgency and Security Sector Reform: The Long-term Consequences of Prioritising Security over Development (ongoing)
• Chanda Mwamba: Analysing Contemporary land tenure and the impact of Land Reforms on Rural peoples’ Livelihood in face of Customary Land in Zambia: a case study of Southern Province (ongoing).
• Hadson Kargbo: Assessing Transitional Justice Mechanisms and their potential for supporting the Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Continuum in Post – War Sierra Leone (ongoing).
• Joe Rees: Evaluating how governments gentrify their cities for major world-stage events – The case studies of Rio de Janeiro, London and Cardiff (ongoing).