Events

HiCN workshops are held every year in December/January.

Fifth Households in Conflict Network Workshop

HiCN's Fifth Annual Workshop will be held at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), on 1-2 February, 2010 and will be organised in collaboration with the German Institute for Economic Research, with funding from the German Foundation for Peace Research. This year's workshop will focus on the global costs of conflict.

The Call For Papers is now closed.

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Fourth Annual Workshop, Households in Conflict Network

HiCN's Fourth Annual Workshop will be held at Yale University, New Haven CT, USA, on 5-6 December, 2008 and will be organised in collaboration with Yale's Program on Order, Conflict and Violence. This year's workshop will focus on the relationship between micro and macro-level conflict processes.

The Call For Papers is now closed.

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Third Annual Workshop, Households in Conflict Network

HiCN's Third Annual Workshop will be held at the Institute of Development Studies, at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, on 10-11 December, 2007. This workshop will focus on the relationship between micro-level conflict processes and institutions. Professor Scott Gates, Director of the Centre for the Study of Civil War at PRIO, Oslo, will deliver the keynote speech.

Please click here for the Call For Papers.
Please note: The Call For Papers has now closed.

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Second Annual Workshop, Households in Conflict Network
The Unit of Analysis and the Micro-Level Dynamics of Violent Conflict

HiCN's Second Annual Workshop will be held at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp, City Campus, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium, on 19-20 January, 2007. This workshop will address key issues in the micro-level analysis of causes, functionings and consequences of violent conflict, with “the unit of analysis” as the central focus. Key-note speakers include, Stephan Klasen (Development Economics, University of Göttingen), Debby Bonnin (Industrial Organisation and Labour Studies, University of Natal) and Debarati Guha-Sapir (Refugee Studies and Epidemiology, Université Catholic de Louvain).

Please click here for the Call For Papers. A selection of the best papers will be submitted to a peer-reviewed international journal after the workshop for a potential special issue.
Please note: The Call For Papers has now closed.

Please click here for the Workshop Programme and papers.

First Annual Workshop, Households in Conflict Network

HiCN's First Annual Workshop will be held at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) in Berlin, on 15-16 January, 2006. Invited speakers include, Robert Bates (Center for International Development, Harvard University), Klaus Deininger (World Bank), Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University) and Mansoob Murshed (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague).

Please click here for the Call For Papers.
Please note: The Call For Papers has now closed.

Please click here for the Workshop Programme and papers.

Gender and Conflict Research Workshop
World Bank, Washington, D.C., 10 June 2010.

This workshop will present analytical research work commissioned by The World Bank on gender and conflict. The work was carried out by a group of HiCN researchers and will be used as background research for the two forthcoming World Development Reports on Security and Conflict and on Gender.

Women and men experience violent conflict differently, as actors, perpetrators and victims. Empirical analysis of the gender-differential is necessary to gain recognition of and muster support for a gendered approach in programs targeted at populations in conflict areas. Gender inequalities which existed before a conflict can be aggravated because of the conflict, but they can also radically alter. Under the direction of Philip Verwimp, six country case studies address the same set of questions and use similar methods.

Please click here to view the draft workshop schedule.

The Behavioural and Cultural Foundations and Consequences of Violence
Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), Lisbon, Portugal, 7-8 June 2010.

The Institute of Social Sciences (ICS, Lisbon) and the Households in Conflict Network are organizing an international research workshop on the behavioural foundations and consequences of violence. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different social science disciplines and countries and to compare current theoretical, empirical and methodological research perspectives. Violence and conflict are both fundamental options for human social interactions, and are omnipresent in any society at many levels of analysis. It is, therefore, surprising that the social sciences have developed such different degrees of sophistication in measuring and accounting for violence between people, and there are a range of analytical traditions in explaining violence.

For that reason, the ICS in Lisbon and HiCN will organize an international research workshop in which scholars from many disciplines and at all levels of seniority can present recent work that is related to the theoretical, empirical and methodological analysis of the behavioural and cultural foundations and consequences of violence.

Please click here for the Call for Papers.

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Entrepreneurship and Conflict
INCORE, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, 20-21 March 2009.

United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) and the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) will co-host a two-day thematic workshop on the relationship between entrepreneurship and violent conflict. Entrepreneurs are often adversely affected by violent conflict such as civil war. At the same time though entrepreneurs may contribute to or even benefit from violent conflict. Therefore, the purpose of this workshop is to deliberate on the nature of entrepreneurship and conflict, exploring how entrepreneurship should be promoted for the establishment and maintenance of peace, security, and development.
Please click here for the Workshop Programme.
Please click here for the Call for Papers. The deadline for submissions was 5 January 2009.

Poverty Reduction in Conflict and Fragile States: Perspectives from a Household Level
Washington D.C., United States, 8-9 November 2006.

USAID's Office of Poverty Reduction (PR), the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) will co-sponsor a two-day international conference on the special challenge of poverty reduction in conflict and fragile states. Examining the relationship between conflict and state fragility at the household level provides an opportunity to understand how these factors affect household behaviour, welfare and poverty. This, in turn, is important for shaping successful programmatic and policy responses.
Please click here for further details on the conference, registration and the call for papers.
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Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association

HiCN Co-Directors, Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino and Philip Verwimp, attended the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association in Philadelphia on 7-9 January 2005. At the session, "Poverty, Inequality and Conflict", presided by Frances Stewart of the University of Oxford, Tilman presented his paper 'The Welfare Effects of Farm Household Activity Choices in Post-War Mozambique', Philip presented his paper 'An Economic Profle of Genocide. Micro-level Evidence from Rwanda', Patricia presented her paper 'Redistribution and Civil Unrest' and Frances Stewart presented her paper 'Policies towards Horizontal Inequalities in Post-Conflict Reconstruction'. These stimulated lively discussions with over 50 people attending. Discussants of the session were Klaus Deininger of the World Bank and Hartmut Lehmann of Bologna University.

Making Peace Work, UNU-WIDER Conference

On 4-5 June 2004 in Helsinki, the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) held a conference, 'Making Peace Work', to increase the focus of economists on conflict issues, and to facilitate interaction between economists and other social scientists working on conflict and post-conflict reconstruction. HiCN Co-Directors, Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino and Philip Verwimp, and HiCN Affiliates, Tony Addison, S. Mansoob Murshed and Pablo Querubin, presented papers at the conference. For further details on 'Making Peace Work', please click here.

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