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First Annual Workshop

Sunday 15 January 2006

08:45

Arrival of Participants

 

 

09:00

The objective of HiCN a Network for the Economic Analysis of Households in Conflict

 

Tilman Brück (HiCN; DIW Berlin)

09:15

Keynote Address: Why focus on the household?

 

Robert Bates (Harvard University)

10:15

Coffee break

 

 

10:30

First Session: Quantitative and Qualitative Work

 

Chair: Patricia Justino (HiCN; Institute of Development Studies)

 

The Effect of Armed Conflict on Accumulation of Schooling: results from Tajikistan

 

Olga Shemyakina (University of Southern California)

 

Livelihood networks and decision-making among Congolese young people in formal and informal refugee contexts in Uganda

 

Christina Clark (University of Oxford)

 

Session Discussant

 

Mansoob Murshed (Institute of Social Studies)

 

Questions from the audience

 

 

12:00

Lunch

 

 

13:00

Second Keynote Address: Surveying Fighters

 

Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University)

14:00

Discussion Forum: Where does micro-level research on conflict stand today?
Moderator: Philip Verwimp (HiCN; Institute of Social Studies)

 

Tony Addison (World Institute for Development Economics Research)
Robert Bates (Harvard University)
Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University)
Mansoob Murshed (ISS)

15:00

Coffee break

 

 

15:30

Second Session: Conflict and Mortality

 

Chair: Tony Addison (WIDER)

 

War-related Deaths in the 1992-1995 Armed Conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Critique of Previous Estimates and Recent Results

 

Ewa Tabeau (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia)

 

Darfur: Counting the Deaths

 

Olivier Degomme (Université Catholique de Louvain)

 

Mortality in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge

 

Damien de Walque (World Bank)

 

Session Discussant

 

Michael Spagat (Royal Holloway College, University of London)

 

Questions from the audience

 

 

17:30

End of academic activities for the first day

 

 

19:00

Workshop dinner

 

 


Monday 16 January 2006

09:30

Third Session: Households, Wealth and Poverty

 

Chair: Ewa Tabeau (ICTR)

 

Civil War and Economic Sanctions: An Analysis of Anthropometric Outcomes in Burundi

 

Tom Bundervoet (Free University of Brussels) and
Philip Verwimp (HiCN; ISS)

 

Bridging for Peaceful Co-existence: What Role for Personal Wealth and Entitlement in Conflict Mitigation in Dry Lands of Eastern Ethiopia

 

Ayalneh Bogale (Alemaya University)

 

Poverty Dynamics and Violent Conflict in Rwanda

 

Patricia Justino (HiCN; IDS) and
Philip Verwimp (HiCN; ISS)

 

Session Discussant

 

Olga Shemyakina (University of Southern California)

 

Questions from the audience

 

 

11:00

Coffee break

 

 

11:15

Fourth Session: Conflict in Colombia

 

Chair: Tilman Brück (HiCN; DIW)

 


Conflict, State and Decentralisation: From Social Progress to an Armed Dispute for Local Control, 1974-2002

 

Fabio Sánchez (Universidad de los Andes)

 

From old wars to new wars and global terrorism

 

Michael Spagat (Royal Holloway College, University of London)

 

Session Discussant

 

Robert Bates (Harvard University)

 

Questions from the audience

 

 

12:45

Lunch

 

 

14:15

Summary of the Workshop: What have we learned?
Moderator: Patricia Justino (HiCN; IDS)

 

Tony Addison (WIDER)
Mansoob Murshed (ISS)

 

Questions from the audience

 

 

16:00

End of Workshop and departure

 

 

 

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