Ceca Research Centre

CECA is funded by the Department of Politics and Society and the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Aalborg University (AAU), Copenhagen. CECA - Centre for Coercion and Accountability provides a multidisciplinary research environment concerned with understanding how coercion and accountability coexist, to gain insight into the global dynamics of coercion and demands for accountability, protection, and justice. As the phenomena are often researched separately or with disciplinary biases, CECA provides a new institutional hub for interdisciplinary research on coercion and accountability to facilitate a dialogue across disciplines. Hence, CECA’s research meets at the interface of international relations and security studies, political science/public administration, anthropology, sociology, history, and socio-legal studies, migration studies, criminology, and human rights scholarship. Methodological pluralism is central to the centre’s foundation with researchers contributing with quantitative and qualitative analyses. Altogether, CECA builds on an ecosystem of different research projects that share a concern with coercion and accountability, with the ambition of serving as a hub of excellence for collaborative and cutting-edge research on coercion and accountability.