THURSDAY 16/12
10:30-12:00 Session I: Civilian Dimensions of Conflict
Christin Ormhaug: Civil War and Child Health
Discussant: Gudrun Østby
Henrik Urdal & Kristian Hoelscher: Urban Youth Bulges and Social Disorder: An Empirical Study of Asian and Sub-Saharan African Cities
Discussant: Håvard Wahl Kongsgård
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Session II: Political Economy of Conflict
Helge Holtermann: Economic Development and Insurgent Resource Mobilization in Nepal
Helge's ideas for changes to the paper
Discussant: Indra de Soysa
Eivind Berg Weibust: Relative Poverty, Political Exclusion and Oil Resources in Civil Conflict, 1960-2000: A Subnational Quantitative Analysis
Discussant: Håvard Strand
14:30-14:45 Break
14:45-16:15 Session III: Environment and Conflict I
Gerdis Wischnath: Climate Strange and Civil War? Variability of Climate Parameters and Internal Armed Conflict in Asia
Discussant: Henrik Urdal
Christian Webersik & Christian Klose: Environmental Change and Political Instability in Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Explaining the Divide
Discussant: Tor A. Benjaminsen
19:00- Dinner at Carls kjøkken
FRIDAY 17/12
09:00-10:30 Session IV: Environment and Conflict II
Sofie Hove Stene: Water Scarcity in the Middle East
Discussant: Nils Petter Gleditsch
Karina Barquet, Päivi Lujala & Jan Ketil Rød: Transboundary Conservation and Militarized Interstate Disputes
Discussant: Helga M. Binningsbø
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Session V: Subnational Dimensions of Conflict + Wrap Up
Rune Slettebak & Ole Magnus Theisen: Natural Disasters and Social Destabilization: Is there a Link between Natural Disasters and Violence? A Study of Indonesian Districts, 1990-2005
Discussant: Scott Gates
Karin Dyrstad, Tanja Ellingsen & Jan Ketil Rød:Ethnic Enclaves, Violence and Ethnic Intolerance in the Western Balkans
Discussant: Kristian S. Gleditsch
12:15-13:15 Lunch
This ends the formal workshop program but all participants are welcome to join the PRIO Winter Party, which begins at 19:00.
Dresscode: MadMen/1950s, whatever that means..