Program
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Thursday, January 21
9:00 Welcome
9:30-11:00 Academic panel “Environment, Aid and Conflict”
Discussant: David Backer
Aiding Peace: Donor Behavior in Conflict-Affected Countries
Susanna Campbell and Michael Findley
Environmental refugees: The impact of climate change on emigration
Zorzeta Bakaki
Explaining Participation in Violent Conflicts over Land
Nina von Uexkull
Modeling the Relationship between Development Aid and Intrastate Armed Conflict
Ravi Bhavnani and Karsten Donnay
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Keynote address followed by panel with practitioners “Policymakers and academic research”
Keynote speaker:
Paul Kenneth Huth
Panel participants:
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou (Graduate Institute and GCSP)
Simon Thacker (UK Government)
Brian McQuinn (ICRC)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Academic panel “One-sided violence”
Discussant: Margit Bussmann
Esteban F. Klor, Sebastian Saiegh and Shanker Satyanath
Armed Groups’ Side Switching and the Occurrence of Civilian Victimization
Sabine Otto
Civilian Victimization and Forced Recruitment
Simon Hug and Livia Schubiger
“Inside shock and awe” – How Aerial Bombardment during the 2009 Gaza War affected Palestinian Attitudes towards Militancy and Diplomacy
Daphna Canetti, Matt Longo and Nancy Hite-Rubin
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Academic panel “Ethnic inequality”
Discussant: Belgin San-Akca
Globalization, Exclusion, and Ethnic Inequality
Nils-Christian Bormann, Lars-Erik Cederman, Yannick Pengl and Nils Weidmann
Elise Must and Siri Aas Rustad
The Diffusion of Inclusion: An Open Polity Model of Ethnic Power Sharing
Lars-Erik Cederman, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Julian Wucherpfennig
Ethnic exclusion and the logic of political survival
Janina Beiser and Nils W Metternich
17:30-18:00 Presentations of new data collections
Monitoring Political Violence: Real-time Change Detection for Conflict Event Data
Philipp Hunziker
Hannah Smidt
How difficult is building peace? Measuring the latent difficulty of peace accord provisions
Constantin Ruhe
Political regimes and civil conflict onset – a reassessment employing a new empirical typology
Sebastian Ziaja
Constructing a Global Dataset on Ethno-political Organizations: The EPR-Organizations Data Project
Manuel Vogt
Thomas Wencker
18:00-19:00 Poster session on new data collections; wine and crisps
19:00 Dinner
Friday, January 22
8:30-10:00 Academic panel “Peace and peacekeeping”
Discussant: Lisa Hultman
Peacekeeping and Maternal Health in Post-conflict Environments
Theodora-Ismene Gizelis and Xun Cao
Peacekeepers against ethnic conflict
Jessica Di Salvatore
Why and How UN Peacekeeping Composition Matters
Vincenzo Bove and Andrea Ruggeri
Jacob Aronson, Paul Kenneth Huth, Mark Lichbach and Kiyoung Chang
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Keynote address followed by panel with practitioners “Future challenges of conflict research”
Keynote speaker:
Philip Schrodt
Panel participants:
Pascal Bongard (Geneva Call)
Heidrun Bohnet (BICC)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Academic panel “Elections etc.”
Discussant: Hanne Fjelde
Elections and Protests: International Diffusion, Learning and Collective Action
Håvard Strand and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
The composition of the security sector and the duration of counterinsurgency campaigns
Sabine C Carey, Neil Mitchell and Adam Scharpf
Ethno-political Competition and Pre-Election Violence in Africa
Carl von Schweinitz
The Politicization of Crime: Elections and Maritime Piracy
Ursula Elisabeth Daxecker and Brandon Prins
14:30-16:00 Academic panel “Monsters and autocracies”
Discussant: Dan Miodownik
Paramilitary Forces and Pro-Government Militias
Tobias Böhmelt and Govinda Clayton
Going Underground: Resort to Terrorism in Mass Mobilization Dissident Campaigns
Margherita Belgioioso
Information Wars: The Internet, State-controlled Mass Media, and Protest Diffusion in Autocracies
Espen Geelmuyden Rød and Nils B. Weidmann
Gods and monsters: Is there a global surge in religious violence?
Joakim Kreutz and Mihai Croicu
16:00-16:30 Concluding remarks
16:30-18:00 Wine and crisps followed by break-out sessions
19:30 Dinner