Everyday peace, (post-)conflict interventions, social cohesion, culture and intangible cultural heritage, everyday economics and consumption systems

Aurélie Broeckerhoff is a research fellow at the Centre for Peace and Security at Coventry University. Her research focuses on everyday life, culture and social relations in societies affected by conflict and division. Aurélie is dedicated to understanding how policies and practices designed to address conflict dynamics impact the lived experiences of communities recovering from violence.

Her work spans research, policy, and practice, utilising various critical philosophies and methodologies, including ethnographic and arts-based approaches.

Aurélie has engaged in multiple participatory research projects related to intangible cultural heritage in the occupied Palestinian territory, funded by the British Council and the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport. She is also investigating traditional agricultural and cultural practices among minoritised communities in post-IS Iraq, with funding from USAID.

Additionally, Aurélie has received funding from the Transformative Consumer Research Society to study small-scale and subsistence farmers at the intersection of culture and resistance. She has researched consumer boycotts in the Palestinian West Bank post-Oslo through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchange programme. Her doctoral research examined the role of consumption spaces in shaping social relations within conflict-affected communities and their potential to foster or undermine societal cohesion.

Aurélie has consulted on community-informed policy development for the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations, the British Council's Intercultural Dialogue programme, and the Kenyan National Cohesion and Integration Commission's community engagement strategy. She has also designed staff training programmes for the UK Home Office.

Prior to her academic career, Aurélie worked in international relations and policy with organizations such as the British Council, the Institute of Community Cohesion, and the British Embassy in Berlin, as well as during a fellowship with the Institute of Foreign Cultural Relations.