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HiCN's Sixth Annual Workshop will be on the theme of Conflict, Crime and Illicit Activities. It will be held at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, on 2-3 December 2010. The Call for Papers is now available.
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HiCN and the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), Lisbon, are organising an International Research Workshop on The Behavioural and Cultural Foundations and Consequences of Violence, on 7-8th June 2010. The Workshop Programme is now available.
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HiCN is organising a workshop at the World Bank on 10 June 2010, in order to present the results of research on gender and conflict. More details
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HiCN is performing research on Gender and Conflict for the World Bank. The work will be used as background research for the two forthcoming World Development Reports on Security and Conflict and on Gender. More details here.
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Gabriela Guerrero Serdán's research on Iraqi children was recently covered by the BBC. It found that under-fives from the most violent areas were on average 0.8cm shorter than other children. Some of Gabriela's research was published as HiCN WP55.
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About HiCN
Violent conflicts are a substantial barrier to economic development. Almost one third of the world's population lives in conflict-affected low income countries. Yet little is known about the effects of conflict on household behaviour, household welfare and poverty. The Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) brings together researchers interested in the micro level analysis of the relationship between violent conflict and household welfare.
The purpose of the HiCN is to undertake collaborative research into the causes and effects of violent conflict at the household level. In particular, the researchers affiliated to the Network are committed to:
- characterise various forms of conflict from a household level perspective;
- identify channels through which households are affected by conflict-induced shocks;
- quantify the impact of conflict at the household level, such as the loss of household members, livestock and land;
- analyse the feedback mechanism from household welfare to violent conflict, such as the effects of inequality and poverty on the incidence of conflict;
- develop methods best suited to analyse the impact of conflict on household welfare;
- derive policy recommendations based on research findings for supporting households and communities affected by conflict.
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If you would like to subscribe to the Households in Conflict Network Quarterly Newsletter, please register here.
The HiCN is funded by The Leverhulme Trust and supported by the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex, the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin and the University of Antwerp.
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Research highlights...
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Download the latest HiCN Research Design Notes:
HiCN RDN13 'Identifying Conflict and its Effects Using Micro-Level Surveys' (Bozzoli, C. and Brück, T.)
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HiCN WP79 'Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys' (Brück, T., Justino, P., Verwimp, P. and Avdeenko, A.) aims to to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict.
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HiCN WP78 'Strategic Mass Killings' (Esteban, J., Morelli, M. and Rohner, D.) provides a model to identify what makes mass killings more likely to occur, and to distinguish conditions under which mass killings and military conflict reinforce each other.
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HiCN WP77 'Violent Conflict and Inequality' (Bircan, C., Brück, T. and Vothknecht, M.) analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction.
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MICROCON A Micro Level Analysis of Violent Conflict is a 5 year European Commission funded project, which takes a micro level, mulitdisciplinary approach to studying the cycle of conflict.
www.microconflict.eu
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