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* * * NEW CALL FOR PAPERS * * *
HiCN's Fourth Annual Workshop
Links between micro and macro-level conflict processes
Yale University, USA, 5-6 December 2008
Click here for the Call For Papers
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 lastest HiCN Research Design Notes:
HiCN RDN7 'Vulnerability to Conflict: a micro-perspective' (Verwimp, P.).
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HiCN WP50 'Votes and Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria' (Collier, P. and Vicente, P. C.) investigates the Nigerian general election of 2007, to date the largest election held in Africa and one seriously marred by violence, by designing and conducting a nationwide field experiment based on randomised anti-violence grassroots campaigning.
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HiCN WP47 'Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide' (Akresh, R. and de Walque, D.) examines the impact of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on children's schooling by combining two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide.
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HiCN WP46 'Poverty and Violent Conflict: A Micro-Level Perspective on the Causes and Duration of Warfare' (Justino, P.) argues that endogenous mechanisms linking processes of violent conflict and household poverty provide valuable micro foundations to the ongoing debate on the causes and duration of armed conflicts.
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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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