Matthew Pflaum
Position
Postdoctoral fellow
Affiliation
Short info
Research
Matthew Pflaum is a postdoctoral fellow in the project at the at the University of Bergen. He is involved in the SmallFishClim project studying small fish value chains in East Africa, especially related to climate change impacts and inputs and outputs during the value chain. He recently completed his PhD in geography at the .
In his dissertation, Matthew studied pastoralist insecurity in the Sahel as it relates to factors like borders, space, urbanization, and compared to other livelihood groups. He developed a model for empirically studying heterogeneities and vulnerabilities among civilians in violence against civilians, providing some of the first empirical evidence of heterogenous impacts of violence against civilians.
Teaching
Population geography, violence and civil wars, Africa, migration and mobility
Publications
2025 Pflaum, Matthew. 鈥淚nternational responses to the glocalized conflict in Mali. In A. Bah (Ed.), African States: Domestic and External Security Challenges. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
2023 Radil, S.M., O. Walther, N. Doward, and M. Pflaum. 鈥淯rban-Rural Geographies of Political Violence in North and West Africa.鈥 African Security, 16(2-3), 199-222.
2021 Plaum, M. Pastoralist Violence in North and West Africa. Paris, OECD Publishing.
Projects
"Reimagining food systems for climate change adaptation, mitigation, and social justice" ()