My research is situated at the intersection of political geography, political ecology and conflict studies. It focuses on the interplay between resource conflicts, environmental and climate change and armed mobilization in areas of protracted violence, and how representations of this interplay feed into policy discourses and practices. I have examined, for instance, the militarization of conflicts around nature conservation and (semi)industrial mining, and conducted critical analyses of environmental peacebuilding and UN peacekeeping. My main empirical focus is on eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, specifically the Kivu provinces, where I have conducted intermittent fieldwork since 2010.