Laurens Bakker is an anthropologist and associate professor at the University of Amsterdam. He works mainly on Indonesia, especially on issues such as law and justice, militias, discourses of authority and non-state violence and undocumented migration to Europe. Furthermore, he focuses on land use, resource conflict and mining.
At present, he studies the role of non-state security groups in countering the threat of extremist violence and in providing ‘human security’. This is a comparative project that takes places simultaneously in Kenya, Nigeria and Indonesia and that is funded by NWO-WOTRO through its Security and Rule of Law Program.
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