Amélie Godefroidt

I am an Assistant Professor in Conflict Management at IESEG School of Management (France) and a Senior Researcher at the KU Leuven (Belgium). My research examines how political violence and social contention — including war, terrorism, and protest — shape public opinion, trust, and support for conflict resolution. I combine comparative and cross-national designs with quantitative and mixed methods to study these processes across contexts such as Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Belgium, and the United States. I am also a strong advocate of open and transparent research, co-founding initiatives such as the Violence, Instability, and Peace (VIP) Workshop, #MethLab, and ReproducibiliTea Leuven. My work has received several awards and appeared in leading journals including American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Peace Research, and Journal of Communication.