⏰ DEADLINE THIS WEEK!
This week is your last chance to submit a paper to take part in the 2024 Annual Household in Conflict Network (#HiCN) Workshop!
This year's theme is "Trust and Development in Conflict-Affected Economies," exploring the critical role trust plays in conflict and post-conflict scenarios.
Find the full CfP 👉 https://hicn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CfP_HiCN-Annual-Workshop-2023.pdf
🗓️ Submission deadline: 1 September 2023
📧 Email submissions to: [email protected]
📖 #HiCN is a network of researchers that study the micro-level impacts of violent conflict.
Since 2005, the network has published 400 working papers and regularly hosts workshops to further how violent conflict shapes the lives of people around the globe.
Find out more at hicn.org!
📢 New #HiCN Working Paper!
The newest Households in Conflict Network Working Paper has just been released!
In it, Laia Balcells Ventura, Lesley-Ann Daniels, and Alexander Kuo study territorial issues in #Catalonia, #Scotland, and #NorthernIreland. Their research reveals intriguing findings about the weight voters place on territorial matters compared to other important political dimensions such as redistribution.
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3️⃣ Incorporating lessons learnt from impact evaluations into future programming
For everyone that missed the event, check out our newest #HiCN #WorkingPapers that dive into some of these topics:
‘How to conduct impact evaluations in humanitarian and conflict settings’ - https://hicn.org/working-paper/387/
‘Conducting (Long-term) Impact Evaluations in Humanitarian and Conflict Settings: Evidence from a complex agricultural intervention in Syria’ - https://hicn.org/working-paper/386/
And the newest #HiCN Working Paper is co-authored by Wim Naudé, Ernesto Amorós and @tilmanbrueck and investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. Their analysis supports two hypotheses:
1. state-based conflict has a negative association with productive and opportunity-motivated forms of entrepreneurship, and
2. a positive association with unproductive and necessity-motivated forms of entrepreneurship
You can find HiCN WP #384 here: https://hicn.org/working-paper/384/
In #HiCN Working Paper #383, Lelys Dinarte-Diaz et al. look at rebel #governance and #development in El Salvador.
During the civil war, guerillas displaced state authorities and implemented their own informal institutions that encouraged autonomy and self-sufficiency from the state and external actors.
Over the last 20 years, those areas have experienced worse economic outcomes and the paper suggests that this is connected to lasting distrust in out-groups.
Full paper: https://hicn.org/working-paper/383/
#HiCN Working Paper #382 looks at the impact of cash transfers on #conflict in Niger, with evidence from 4000 villages across 7 years.
The results suggest that the cash transfers did not (as hoped) result in greater pacification. Actually (if anything), they may have contributed to a short-term rise in conflict events, as rebel groups (like #BokoHaram) could have incentives to sabotage government programs.
Check out the full paper by Patrick Premand and @dominicrohner https://hicn.org/working-paper/382/
We have new #HiCN Working Papers to share!
If you don’t already know: The Households in Conflict Network brings together academics and pushes for more research on micro-level effects of violent conflict.
As part of that effort, we host a Working Paper Series and in this thread we’ll show you the newest additions!
🔊 CALL FOR PAPERS: War and Reconstruction in Ukraine 🔊
The Households in Conflict Network (#HiCN), Network of European Peace Scientists (#NEPS) and UNU-WIDER are inviting papers for an upcoming joint #workshop in Helsinki!
The workshop will be centered around three key topics:
1️⃣ Refugee return and reintegration
2️⃣ Livelihood reconstruction and recovery
3️⃣ Rebuilding the social contract
Find out more (and the full CfP) on our website 👉 https://isdc.org/events/war-and-reconstruction-in-ukraine-an-academic-workshop/
It is more important than ever that academic research informs and positively impacts policy. To develop academic research and policy solutions for the crisis in Ukraine, HiCN, NEPS, and UNU-WIDER are seeking papers for a two-day workshop in Helsinki, Finland, in early May. A full-day academic workshop (tentatively on 8th May) hosted by UNU-WIDER will […]
Another piece of #HiCN news: We've just published our final Working Paper of 2022 - #381, written by ISDC's own Dorothee Weiffen, Ghassan Baliki, and @tilmanbrueck!
They use an honest causal forest machine learning algorithm to examine the heterogeneous effects of an agricultural intervention in conflict-affected #Syria.
Full paper: https://hicn.org/working-paper/381/
Agricultural interventions are one of the key policy tools to strengthen the food security of households living in conflict settings. Yet, given the complex nat
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