Research Interests
- Religion, ethnicity and conflict
- Institutional development
- State- and peacebuilding
- Aid allocation
- Social and political trust
- Migration and refugees
Background
Patrick is a Master`s Student particularly interested in how religion, ethnicity, and migration affect conflicts and institutional development. As part of the TRUST Project, his MA Thesis investigates how ethnic composition and refugee arrivals affect attitudes of social trust in African host-communities.