Lucas Leopold

Lucas Leopold joined the Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD) in October 2020 after obtaining his Master’s degree in Political Science from Heidelberg University. His research interests comprise horizontal inequalities and their role as catalysts for conflict in ethnically diverse societies. In his PhD project, Lucas specifically focuses on individual perceptions of group-based inequalities in two multi-ethnic countries, Nigeria and Kenya, and their relationship with more objective indicators of inequality. While his approach is mainly based on collecting original survey data, the project makes use of both qualitative and quantitative research methods.