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The Behavioural and Cultural Foundations and Consequences of Violence

Organised with the Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon


Monday 7 June 2010

09:00

Registration and coffee

 

 

09:30

Welcome

 

José Luis Cardoso (on behalf of the Director, ICS/UL)
Tilman Brück (ICS-UL, DIW Berlin, HiCN)
Susana Durão (ICS-UL)

09:45

Plenary Session: Violent Development in the Social Sciences

 

Tilman Brück (ICS-UL, DIW Berlin, HiCN)
Patricia Justino (Institute of Development Studies, HiCN)
Philip Verwimp (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, HiCN)

10:45

Coffee break

 

 

11:00-13:00

Session 1A: Identity, Social Capital and Trust

 

Chair: Pedro Magalhães (ICS/UL)

 

Risk and Trust Attitudes, Locus of Control and WWII Destruction

 

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel (Dalhousie University, Canada) and Mutlu Yuksel (IZA - Institute for the Study of Labour)

 

The Consequences of Violence on Political Identities: Evidence from Spain

 

Laia Balcells Ventura (Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica)

11:00-13:00

Session 1B: Deportation, Migration and Exile

 

Chair: Philip Verwimp (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, HiCN)

 

The Unintended Long-Term Consequences of Dismissal and Exile of Highly-Skilled Professionals: Evidence from Nazi Germany

 

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel (Dalhousie University, Canada)

 

Migrant Remittances and Household Labour Supply in Post-Conflict Tajikistan

 

Patricia Justino (Institute of Development Studies, HiCN) and Olga Shemyakina (Georgia Institute of Technology)

 

Life Histories of the Jews of Munich 1933-45: A Micro-Level Quantitative Approach

 

Alexandra Adveenko (DIW Berlin) and Tilman Brück (ICS-UL, DIW Berlin, HiCN)

13:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00-17:30

Session 2A (including 30 mins coffee break): Motivation

 

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

 

Motivations Behind Inter-Group Conflict: An Experimental Study of Greek Students After the 2008 Riots

 

David Hugh-Jones (Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena)

 

Between Spectacle and Banality: Trajectories into Islamic Radicalism in a Karachi Neighbourhood

 

Nicola Khan (University of Brighton)

 

Globalization Anger? Foreign Economic Liberalization and Social Unrest in Latin America and the Caribbean

 

Nina Weisehomeier (ICS/UL)

 

Ex-Combatants, Returnees, Land and Conflict in Liberia: 'If We Fight Again, We Will Fight About Land'

 

Jairo Munive (Danish Institute for International Studies)

14:00-17:30

Session 2B (including 30 mins coffee break): Perpetrators

 

Chair: Susana Durão (ICS/UL)

 

Those They Identified as the Enemy: The Use of Genocidal Massacres in a Counter-Insurgency Campaign

 

Christopher Sullivan (University of Notre Dame)

 

Psychological and Psychosocial Profile and Specific Characteristics of Young Sex Offenders in Portuguese Context

 

Ricardo Barroso (UTAD)

 

The Dark Side of Women: Female Violence in the Couple

 

Cláudia Casimiro (CIES/ISCTE-IUL)

 

Violence: Emergence of Hidden Social Secrets

 

António Pedro Dores (CIES/ISCTE-IUL)

18:00

Conference Dinner



Tuesday 8 June 2010

09:00-12:30

Session 3A (including 30 mins coffee break): Fears, Emotions and Memories

 

Chair: Tilman Brück (ICS-UL, DIW Berlin, HiCN)

 

Can Urban Violence Present New Opportunities for Grassrooted NGOs? Analysing Emotions and Experiences from Rio de Janeiro

 

Susana Durão (ICS/UL)

 

Threat and Fear of Reversion: Understanding Nazi War Criminality

 

Manus I. Midlarsky (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)

 

Memory, Justice and Human Rights: The East-Timorese Truth and Reconciliation Commission

 

Bruno Silva (ICS/UL)

 

Long-Term Enmities and Collective Memories of Violence: Understanding the Escalation of Communal Conflict on the Island of Ambon, Indonesia

 

Jeroen Adam (Ghent University)

09:00-12:30

Session 3B (including 30 mins coffee break): Effects of and Coping with Violence

 

Chair: Nina Wisehomeier (ICS/UL)

 

Ethnicity, Subjective Wellbeing and Armed Conflict: Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina

 

Olga N. Shemyakina (Georgia Institute of Technology)

 

Impact of Paramilitary Group Bloque Cacique Nutibara's (BCN's) Demobilisation on Homicides in Medellin

 

Fabio Sanchez Torres (Universidad de Los Andes-Bogotá) and Isabel Cristina Betancur Hinestroza (Universidad de Medellin)

 

A Political Conflict Trap: Consequences of Armed Conflict in the Middle East

 

Havard Hegre (University of Oslo) and Havard Mokleiv Nygard (PRIO)

 

Dropping Out of Coffee Under the Threat of Violence and Illicit Crop

 

Philip Verwimp (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, HiCN)

12:30

Lunch

 

 

13:30-16:30

Session 4A (including 30 mins coffee break): Conflict Regulation, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding

 

Chair: Jaime Reis (ICS/UL)

 

Peacebuilding or a Shot in the Dark? The DDR of Paramilitaries in Colombia

 

Kimberly Howe (Tufts University) and Fabio Sanchez (Universidad de los Andes)

 

Violence and Regulation in School

 

Alexandra Leandro (ISCTE-IUL)

 

UNSCR 1325: Is It Only About War? Armed Violence in Non-War Contexts

 

Rita Santos (CES-FEUC) and Tatiana Moura (CES-FEUC)

13:30-16:30

Session 4B (including 30 mins coffee break): Perceptions and Measurement

 

Chair: José Tavares (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

 

Gender and Victimization: Perceptions About Urban Violence in Rio de Janeiro

 

Maria Cláudia Pereira Coelho (Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro)

 

What Does it Take to Survive Armed Conflict? Rules of Conduct and Perceptions of Violence Among Victims in Colombia

 

Stine Finne Jakobsen (Research and Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims, Copenhagen)

 

Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

 

Tilman Brück (ICS-UL, DIW Berlin, HiCN), Patricia Justino (Institute of Development Studies, HiCN), Philip Verwimp (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, HiCN) and Alexandra Adveenko (DIW Berlin)

16:30

Departure

 

 

 

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