Abstract
ABSTRACT Analyses of universities in peace and conflict studies predominantly draw on micro-, meso- or macro-level lenses which portray universities as conflict-prone or peace-conducive. While these perspectives only allow for a limited understanding of higher education as a conflictual field, I propose that the methodology of situational analysis is better suited to understand the complex dynamics of peace and conflict in universities. Building on ethnographic research in three Senegalese universities, the situational analysis of student housing reveals how conflicts over political power, access to resources and competition in a precarious lifeworld emerge situationally. Simultaneously, the conflictual field of higher education is characterised by practices of cooperation and solidary relations. By allowing for complexity and contradictions, the situational analysis thus reveals important potentials for peace in the conflictual field of higher education.
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