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* * * NEW CALL FOR PAPERS * * *
Thematic workshop
Entrepreneurship and Conflict
INCORE, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, 20-21 March 2009
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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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 latest HiCN Research Design Notes:
HiCN RDN7 'Vulnerability to Conflict: a micro-perspective' (Verwimp, P.).
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HiCN WP51 'Rivalry and Revenge: Making Sense of Violence against Civilians in Conventional Civil Wars' (Balcells, L.) argues that an understanding of the determinants of violence in civil war requires a theory combining both political cleavages and wartime dynamics
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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 WP49 'Unbundling Institutions at the Micro Level: Conflict, Institutions and Income in Burundi' (Voors, M. J. and Bulte, E.H.) uses a new dataset from Burundi to analyse the role of local institutions as determinants of income
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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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