📖 #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!

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📢 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.

https://hicn.org/working-paper/394/

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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/

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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/

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/

And finally (for now!): #HiCN WP #380 by Sergio Perilla, Mounu Prem, @mpurroy and @jvargas - another paper with evidence from Colombia!

In "How Peace Saves Lives" they quantify the number of lives saved by the reduction of landmine accidents and study the institutional conditions under which peace agreements can significantly reduce landmine victimization.

Full paper: https://hicn.org/working-paper/380/

#HiCN WP #379 is by Gustav Agneman and is titled "Conflict Victimization and Civilian Obedience: Evidence from Colombia".

Gustav investigates how conflict victimization influences civilians’ likelihood of (dis)obeying armed actors.

Full paper: https://hicn.org/working-paper/379/

We have a few more exciting #HiCN Working Papers to share!

First up, #378: "Sending peace home?! The effect of political favoritism on conflict" by Kerstin Unfried and Andreas Kammerlander - a look at the the difference in the likelihood and intensity of conflict between regions in which citizens reside that belong to identity groups of political leaders and others over time in a global sample.

Full paper: https://hicn.org/working-paper/378/

For those who missed our running commentary, we've published a blog post recapping last week's Households in Conflict Network (#HiCN) Workshop on our website!

A big thank you goes out to Gudrun Østby and Kristian Gleditsch for their keynotes - and of course to Arzu Kibris for organizing!

We'll announce updates for the 2023 workshop in the coming months!

👉 https://isdc.org/the-2022-households-in-conflict-network-workshop/

For those who missed our running commentary, we've published a blog post recapping last week's Households in Conflict Network (#HiCN) Workshop on our website!

A big thank you goes out to Gudrun Østby and Kristian Gleditsch for their keynotes - and of course to Arzu Kibris for organizing!

We'll announce updates for the 2023 workshop in the coming months!

👉 https://isdc.org/the-2022-households-in-conflict-network-workshop/

As we move into the last session of this year’s #HiCN workshop, the topic has moved to “Armed Conflicts and Economic Activity”.

Our first presenter was Joseph Gomes, who looked at trade liberalization, ethnic remoteness, and civil conflict in different African countries.

Following this, Thomas Gautier showed the results of his evaluations of TRCs in post-Apartheid South Africa.

To cap off the workshop, ISDC’s own Wolfgang Stojetz looked at conflict coping strategies in North-East Nigeria.

Next up: “Economic Legacies of Armed Conflicts”.
Rahul Mehrotra took a look at the long-term economic impacts of the Khmer Rouge Genocide.
ISDC’s own Dorothee Weiffen then took over to present the heterogeneous results from her machine learning-based evaluation of an agricultural intervention in Syria.
Then, Amélie Godefroidt asked the question: “Who pays for peace?” specifically by looking at how public opinion plays a role in affecting peace agreements.
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We’re now watching our second Keynote by Kristian Gleditsch (University of Essex, PRIO) on the relationship between policy implications and research.
What is the difference between research outcomes and actual policy recommendations? What does “this research has important policy implications” really mean? When is research relevant for policymakers?

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Day 2 of the #HiCN Annual Workshop, quite literally, “kicked off” with a presentation by Eve Tokdemir on the relationship between conflict and football referee decisions in Turkey.

His presentation was the first of the session titled “The Elusive Peace” and was followed by Roberto Nisticò’s paper on fertility in post-conflict settings, specifically those secured by UN peacekeeping.

Jana Krause then took the stage to look at whether peacebuilding mediates vulnerability to renewed violence.

Our final session of the day is titled “Social and Political Legacies of War” and was kicked off by Resul Cesur’s presentation on precisely these legacies in former Turkish conscripts.

Amian Haran Diman then took over to look at ethnic minority behavior in the aftermath of the 1948 Israel-Palestine war.

And now Simon Hug is capping off day 1 with a presentation on the consequence of one-sided violence on inter-ethnic relations.

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