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Third Annual Workshop


Monday 10 December 2007

08:45

Arrival and coffee

 

 

09:00

Introduction

 

Patricia Justino (Institute of Development Studies)

09:15

Keynote Address: Communal violence and property rights

 

Scott Gates (Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO)

10:15

Coffee break

 

 

10:30

First Session: Groups, Local Institutions and Alliances

 

Chair: Koen Vlassenroot (Ghent University)

 

Reputation, group structure and social tensions

 

Dominic Rohner (University of Cambridge)

 

The Opec Boys and the political economy of smuggling in Northern Uganda

 

Els Lecoutere & Kristof Titeca (Ghent University)

 

Inter-elite competition and access to land in Hila, Eastern Indonesia

 

Jeroen Adam (Ghent University)

 

Borders of everyday life: Congolese young people's political identification in contexts of conflict-induced displacement

 

Christina Clark (St Paul University)

12:30

Lunch

 

 

14:00

Second Session: Dynamics of Armed Conflict

 

Chair: Stathis Kalyvas (Yale University)

 

Does inequality make us rebel? A renewed theoretical model applied to South Mexico

 

Jean-François Maystadt (Université Catholique de Louvain)

 

Where and when does violence pay off? The Algerian civil war

 

Roman Hagelstein (Universität Tübingen)

 

The formality in property rights: determinant in the military strategy of armed actors

 

Andrea P. Velásquez Guijo (Universidad de los Andes)

16:00

Coffee break

 

 

16:15

Third Session: Household Welfare and Coping Strategies

 

Chair: Philip Verwimp (University of Antwerp)

 

Private and public transfers as a coping strategy under armed conflict: the case of Tajikistan

 

Olga Shemyakina (Georgia Institute of Technology)

 

Migration, violence and welfare in rural Colombia

 

Alice Mesnard (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

 

Violence, forced displacement and chronic poverty in Colombia

 

Patti Petesch (World Bank)

18:15

End of academic activities for the first day

 

 

20:00

Workshop dinner in Brighton

 

 



Tuesday 11 December 2007

09:00

Arrival and coffee

 

 

09:15

Keynote Address: The paradox of governance in civil war

 

Stathis Kalyvas (Yale University)

10:00

Coffee break

 

 

10:15

Forth Session: Reconstruction and Integration in Post-conflict Settings

 

Chair: Andy McKay (University of Sussex)

 

Health outcomes and displacement: evidence from Northern Uganda

 

Carlos Bozzoli (German Institute for Economic Research)

 

Reducing intergroup prejudice and conflict with the media. A field experiment in Rwanda

 

Elizabeth Levy Paluck (Harvard University)

 

Conflict displacement and labour market outcomes: evidence from post-war Bosnia & Herzegovina

 

Florence Kondylis (Columbia University)

12:15

Lunch

 

 

13:30

Fifth Session: New Data and Methods

 

Chair: Scott Gates (Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO)

 

The Bosnian book of dead: assessment of the database

 

Philip Verwimp (University of Antwerp)

 

Bias in epidemiological studies of conflict mortality

 

Michael Spagat (Royal Holloway College, University of London)

 

Surveying armed violence, arms and victimisation in southern Sudan: findings and challenges       (Questionnaire)

 

Robert Muggah (Small Arms Survey)

 

Iraqis in Jordan; their number and characteristics

 

Kristin Dalen (Fafo)

15:15

Coffee break

 

 

15:30

Summary of the Workshop

 

Chair: Philip Verwimp (University of Antwerp)

16:00

End of Workshop

 

 

 

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