James Igoe Walsh

@jamesigoewalsh
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Studies bad things: the causes of armed conflict and its consequences for civilians

Professor of Political Science, Data Science, & Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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James Igoe WalshDec 13, 2022

Present your research on conflict at the 4th meeting of the Carolinas Conflict Consortium in lovely Boone, NC on April 20-21, 2023

We encourage papers about any type of conflictual or unconventional political behavior between or within states. In past years, most papers employ large-N statistical analysis, experiments, and/or game theory

If you are interested in participating as a discussant, presenter, or attendee, please complete this form by January 31st, 2023:

https://forms.gle/DikxiiY61zBMWvf99

Carolinas Conflict Consortium 2022 Call for Proposals

The fourth annual meeting of the Carolinas Conflict Consortium will be held at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC on the afternoon of April 20, 2023, and the morning of April 21, 2023. Our goal is to provide a friendly and constructive space for faculty and graduate students in the southeastern United States to present research. We encourage paper submissions about any type of conflictual or unconventional political behavior between or within states, broadly construed. In past years, most papers presented at the CCC have employed large-N statistical analysis, experiments, and/or game theoretic approaches. Eight papers will be selected for ~40 minute slots for presentation and discussion/feedback. While papers need not be finished products, they should be sufficiently complete for circulation to a discussant. If you are interested in participating as a discussant, presenter, or attendee please complete the form below by January 31st, 2023. You will be notified about if your paper is selected by mid-February, 2023. If you have questions, please contact the organizers of the CCC: Chelsea Estancona ([email protected]), Peter Thompson ([email protected]), and James Walsh ([email protected]).

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Show threadJames Igoe WalshNov 30, 2022
@egtewinkel That's great--I hope you find it useful!
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We hope other researchers will build on this data collection effort to produce new findings about the causes of human rights abuses. 🙏 to the many graduate and undergraduate students who collected the data (and hopefully learned something about human rights), as well as the Minerva Research Initiative, Director of National Intelligence, Army Research Office, UNC Charlotte, & the Center for International Trade & Security at the University of Georgia for providing support that made this possible
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And that overall rebel violations have not declined noticeably over the past 30 years
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We also find that killings are the most common allegation of rebel human rights violations
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are less common that one might think:
Show threadJames Igoe WalshNov 30, 2022
Similar to the Sexual Violence in Armed Confict dataset, the RHRV dataset includes a larger number of human rights violations and only those committed by rebel groups.
http://www.sexualviolencedata.org
Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict

Show threadJames Igoe WalshNov 30, 2022
We extend the approach used to measure human rights abuses by governments– such as the Political Terror Scale and the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project– to rebel groups The RHRV dataset codes human rights reports from @DOS & Amnesty to identify allegations of nine human rights violations: killings, torture, detention, property crimes, forced recruitment, sexual violence, forced displacement, and restrictions on movement.
James Igoe WalshNov 30, 2022
First substantive Mastodon post! I hope I’m doing this properly 🤫 Beth Whitaker, Justin Conrad, and I have released the Rebel Human Rights Violations (RHRV) dataset, which documents allegations of human rights violations by rebel groups around the world in each year from 1990 to 2020. You can find a pre-print of the paper, forthcoming in @JPR_journal, and the data on Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KT3PZS
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The Rebel Human Rights Violations Dataset

This is the repository for the Rebel Human Rights Dataset, which measures violations of nine international human rights by rebel groups engaged in ...

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James Igoe WalshNov 18, 2022
Richard LittlerNov 18, 2022
People grumbling that #Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax!
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