Current research projects:
- Gangs and anti-gang policies in Central America (with Dr. Wim Savenije, FLACSO San Salvador / Buenos Aires).
- Contested state building in Kosovo.
- Political space of NGOs in partial democracies. A comparative study of Honduras, Guatemala, Indonesia and Philipines (with Dr. Carolijn Terwindt, Max Planck Instutite, Freiburg).