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Welcome to the website of MCCRAfrica! The project brings together co-investigators at the Department of Government and Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex (UK), in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Nigeria and Uganda, as well as ODI Global in London. The project is generously funded by the ESRC (2.5 million GBP, 2023-2027). On this website, you can learn more about the project, the team members, our research, and events we organise.
There are five principal project objectives which we pursue in three Work Programmes (WP):
1. To develop new insights on multilingualism and conflict drawing on existing data.
2. To present theoretically-rooted arguments on how multilingual practice, language ideology, and policy can affect conflict onset and its resolution.
3. To produce a major, original dataset on multilingualism in Sub-Saharan Africa that is compatible with prominent conflict datasets and can be used by other scholars across fields.
4. To use diverse qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection including linguistic ethnography, interviews, focus groups, surveys and experiments to shed new light on practised multilingualism, conflict and its resolution.
5. To work with co-investigators at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and local collaborators, to develop and implement best practices related to multilingualism for preventing conflict onset, helping bring conflict to an end, and reducing the likelihood that conflict recurs.
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