Environmental Factors of Civil War

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Time: Thu 16 (10:30) - Fri 17 (15:00) December 2010
Place: PRIO, Hausmanns gate 7, Oslo

​Workshop for the CSCW Working Group on Environmental Factors of Civil War.

 

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..