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Dickow, Dr. Helga

Position at ABI:
Senior Researcher
Coordination Cluster Conflict and Fragility
E-mail:
helga.dickow [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Phone:
+49 (0)761 888 78 40
Areas of research:
Ethnic and Religious Conflicts, Conflict Regulation, Transition and Democratization, Pentecostal Churches and Religious Movements, Political Role of Churches
Regional focus:
Subsaharan Africa, esp. Chad, South Africa, Burundi
Professional experience:
2002-2004
Expert of the GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit) in N’Djamena, Tschad (“Projet Education de Base”)
1999-2002
Head of Department „Wanderung“, Diakonisches Werk der EKD, Stuttgart
1996-1998
Research Assistant, Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung, DIPF, Frankfurt a. Main
Education:
1996
PhD in Political Sciences, University of Freiburg
1986-1988
Teacher Training, Institut für Schulpraxis, Bremen
1985
M.A. in German and History, University of Freiburg

Council Member of CARE Deutschland

(2022): Satisfaction With The Status Quo: Why has Religious Terrorism not yet Gained Ground In Chad? In: Contemporary Journal of African Studies 9(2022)2, pp. 147-186 https://www.ajol.info/index.php/contjas/article/view/239122. 

with Yonatan Gez and Nadia Beider (2022): African and Not Religious: The State of Research on Sub-Saharan Religious Nones and New Scholarly Horizons, online first: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00020397211052567; in: Africa Spectrum 51(2022)1, pp. 50-71.

with Benno Pokorny, Christian von Luebke, Sidzabda Djibril Dayamba (2019): All the gold for nothing? Impacts of mining on rural livelihoods in Northern Burkina Faso, in: World Development, Volume 119, July 2019, pp. 23-39.

(2014): Autoritäre Strukturen im Tschad: Macht aus der Sicht derer, die sie nicht haben, in: Sociologus 64(2014)1, pp. 53-78.

(2012): Religion and Attitudes towards Life in South Africa. Pentecostals, Charismatics and Reborns. Nomos: Baden-Baden.

(1996): Das Regenbogenvolk. Die Entstehung einer neuen civil religion in Südafrika. Nomos: Baden-Baden.

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Publications

Identité religieuse, cohabitation ethno-religieuse, et politique : le cas du Tchad

Dickow, Dr. Helga
Bulletin de l'Observatoire international du religieux N°50 [en ligne], août 2024
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Satisfaction With The Status Quo: Why has Religious Terrorism not yet Gained Ground In Chad?

Dickow, Dr. Helga
Contemporary Journal of African Studies (CJAS)
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ABI Working Paper No° 16

Religious Nones in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Do We Know and What Would We Like to Know?

Dickow, Dr. Helga with Beider, Nadia / Gez, Yonatan N.
ABI-Working Paper

African and Not Religious: The State of Research on Sub-Saharan Religious Nones and New Scholarly Horizons

Dickow, Dr. Helga / Gez, Dr. Yonatan N. with Beider, Nadia
Africa Spectrum
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Allein gelassen im Kampf um Demokratie? Der Tschad nach dem Tod seines Langzeit-Herrschers

Dickow, Dr. Helga
Geschichte der Gegenwart
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Idriss Déby Itno offered Chadians great hope, but ended up leaving a terrible legacy

Dickow, Dr. Helga
The Conversation
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How a popular movement could threaten Idriss Déby Itno’s 30 years in power

Dickow, Dr. Helga
The Conversation
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Terror ohne Ende: Tschads Sieg, Frankreichs Scheitern

Dickow, Dr. Helga
Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik
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Sahel: Implikationen und Folgen der Corona-Krise

Dickow, Dr. Helga
Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung - Schwerpunkt Sahel
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Burundi: Das Ende der Versöhnung?

Dickow, Dr. Helga
Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik
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Konfliktportrait: Tschad

Dickow, Dr. Helga
Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung
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Konfliktportrait: Zentralafrikanische Republik

Dickow, Dr. Helga
Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung
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Der Marschall und die Menschenrechte

Dickow, Dr. Helga
Geschichte der Gegenwart
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Gefährliche Wüste. Mauretaniens anderer Umgang mit dem Jihadismus, in: Geschichte der Gegenwart 2020

Dickow, Dr. Helga
Geschichte der Gegenwart
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ABI Working Paper No° 13

The Ambiguities of Cohabitation: Religious Attitudes between Tolerance and Fundamentalism in Chad

Dickow, Dr. Helga
ABI-Working Paper