- Email Address:
- bruno.braak@minbuza.nl
- Phone Number:
- +31703487548
- Occupation:
- Senior Policy Researcher
Bruno Braak has joined IOB as senior policy researcher in September 2024. He defended his PhD at Leiden University based on ethnographic research on war, displacement, and traditional authorities in South Sudan and Uganda. He conducted research on and in Kosovo, Sudan, South-Sudan, Uganda, and Libya, mostly on war and peace, displacement, access to justice, local dispute resolution and legal systems.
IOB studies
- Evaluation of the Dutch contributions to maritime security in the Red Sea
- Evaluation of the Dutch military contributions to the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria
IOB publications
Other publications
- Braak B.J. & Ibrahim S.M.K. (2025). ‘Women’s disinheritance in Libya: how women in Benghazi claim long denied inheritance rights’. The Journal of North African Studies. 30(1): 92-114.
- Braak B.J. (2024). ‘Witchcraft, disputes, and trials among the Azande (2014–2016)’. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 14(3): 647-661.
- Braak B. (2023). ‘Graves, trees, and spray-paint: Land tenure formalisation and five normative repertoires in post-conflict South Sudan’. Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis. 55(1): 58-76.
- Hillary I.W. & Braak B.J. (2022). ‘‘When the World Turns Upside Down, Live Like a Bat!’: idioms of suffering, coping, and resilience among elderly female Zande Refugees in Kiryandongo refugee settlement, Uganda (2019–20)’. Civil Wars. 24(2-3): 159-180.
- Braak B.J. (2022). ‘Overcoming ruptures: Zande identity, governance, and tradition during cycles of war and displacement in South Sudan and Uganda (2014-2019)’. PhD Dissertation. Leiden University.
- Ibrahim S.M.K., Braak B.J., and Otto J.M. (2022). ‘The Long and Winding Road: Justice seeking and access to justice in Libya’ (PDF). Leiden/Benghazi: Van Vollenhoven Institute/Benghazi Centre for Law and Society Studies.
- Braak B.J. (7 September 2020). ‘Warlord politics guides peace in South Sudan’. Africa at LSE Blog. The London School of Economics and Political Science.
- Braak B. & Kenyi J.J. (2018). ‘Customary Authorities Displaced: The experience of Western Equatorians in Ugandan refugee settlements’ (PDF). Nairobi: Rift Valley Institute.
- Braak B.J. (2016). ‘Exploring Primary Justice in South Sudan: Challenges, concerns, and elements that work’ (PDF). Leiden: Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University.