Maurice Beseng is Assistant Professor at the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham. He was formerly Research Associate at the University of Sheffield's Institute for Global Sustainable Development (IGSD), and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in African Politics and Economics of Wildlife Trade at the University of Oxford, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit.
Maurice has held research fellowships from the Association of Commonwealth University (ACU) and AHRC. In 2019, he used the ACU Blue Charter Fellowships to work on the topic of Plastic Pollution in Fisheries. Since 2019, he has also been a visiting fellow at the Centre for Trust, Peace & Social Relations at Coventry University working on Maritime Security and Ocean Justice issues.
Maurice's research interest include natural resources and justice, marine environmental crimes, political ecology of the oceans.
Experience
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2023–presentTeaching Fellow, IDD University of Birmingham
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2021–2022Research associate , Institute for Global Sustainable Development. The University of Sheffield
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2020–2021Postdoctoral research associate, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford
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2018–2019Research assistant, CTPSR, Coventry University
Education
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2019Coventry University, Ph.D Security & Development
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2008Coventry University, MA Conflict Studies
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2007Universities of: Cadiz, Algarve & Plymouth, , Erasmus Mundus Joint European MSc in Water & Coastal Management
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2004University of Buea, Cameroon, Postgraduate Diploma, Gender & Development Studies
Publications
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2023Africa Spectrum,, Beseng, M., Crawford, G. and Annan, N., 2023. From “Anglophone Problem” to “Anglophone Conflict” in Cameroon: Assessing Prospects for Peace. 58(1), pp.89-105.
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2021African Security, The Nature and Scope of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing and Fisheries Crime in Cameroon: Implications for Maritime Security, https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2021.1982241
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2021Conflict, Security & Development, Nancy Annan, Maurice Beseng, Gordon Crawford & James Kiven (2021) Civil society, peacebuilding from below and shrinking civic space: the case of Cameroon’s ‘Anglophone’ conflict, Conflict, Security & Development, 21:6, 697-725, DOI:10.1080/14678802.2021.1997454
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2021Conflict, Security & Development, Maritime security and the securitisation of fisheries in the Gulf of Guinea: experiences from Cameroon, DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2021.1985848
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2019Marine Policy, Cameroon's Choppy Waters: The Anatomy of Fisheries Crime in Marine Fisheries Sector- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103669
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