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The latest call of the MICROCON INCO Training Fund is now open. This fund is intended to allow researchers from developing countries to participate in MICROCON, an EU-funded research programme studying violent conflict at the micro-level. The deadline for applications is 30th September.
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DIW Berlin are looking for a research assistant to work on a consultancy basis to help draft a background paper on violence, conflict and development. Click here for full details.
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A Special Issue of the Journal for Peace Research has been published. It is on the Micro-Level Dynamics of Violent Conflict and is co-edited by HiCN Co-Directors Philip Verwimp, Patricia Justino and Tilman Brück.The issue also contains a number of articles by other HiCN affiliates, including Stathis Kalyvas, Tom Bundervoet, Carlos Bozzoli, Mathias Czaika, Abbey Steele, Ana María Ibáńez and Andrea Velasquez.
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A Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Conflict will be held at INCORE, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland on 20-21 March 2009. It will be co-hosted by UNU-WIDER, HiCN and INCORE.
The Workshop Programme is now available.
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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 WP61 'The Impact of Armed Civil Conflict on Household Welfare and Policy Responses' (Justino, P.) offers a framework for analysing the effects of armed conflicts on households and the ways households respond to conflicts, giving policy recommendations for national and international levels.
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HiCN WP60 'Winners and Losers Among a Refugee-Hosting Population' (Maystadt, J-F. and Verwimp, P.) seeks to understand how refugee inflows affect the goods and labour markets of the local economy, based on a hypothesis formulated during a two-month iterative field research.
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HiCN WP59 'The Human Capital Consequences of Civil War: Evidence from Guatemala' (Chamarbagwala, R. and Morán, H.) examines how the worst period of the civil war in Guatemala, between 1979 and 1984, affected human capital accumulation.
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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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