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News
Tuesday, 31 Mar 2020
Nils Weidmann Receives the Karl Deutsch Award
Although this years ISA Convention was cancelled, the annual awards have still been announced.
Nils Weidmann (former PRIO researcher and long-standing PRIO associate) has been awarded the prestigious Karl Deutsch Award, an annual mid-career award that recognizes scholars in International Relations under the age of 40 or within ten years of defending their dissertation.
The winner of the award ‘is judged to have made (through a body of publications) the most significant contribution to the study of International Relations and Peace Research.’
Congratulations to Nils!
Empowering activists or autocrats? The Internet in authoritarian regimes
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Violence and Election Fraud: Evidence from Afghanistan
Journal Article in British Journal of Political Science
Richardson in the Information Age: Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Data in International Studies
Journal Article in Annual Review of Political Science
Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time: Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset
Journal Article in Conflict Management and Peace Science
Violence “from above” or “from below”? The Role of Ethnicity in Bosnia’s Civil War
Journal Article in Journal of Politics
Horizontal Inequalities and Ethno-nationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison
Journal Article in American Political Science Review
Fortune Favours the Bold: An Agent-Based Model Reveals Adaptive Advantages of Overconfidence in War
Journal Article in PLoS ONE
Diffusion Patterns of Violence in Civil Wars
Journal Article in Political Geography
Mapping and Measuring Country Shapes: The cshapes Package
Journal Article in R Journal
Shared Space: Ethnic Groups, State Accommodation, and Localized Conflict
Journal Article in International Studies Quarterly
Nils Weidmann Receives the Karl Deutsch Award
Although this years ISA Convention was cancelled, the annual awards have still been announced.
Nils Weidmann (former PRIO researcher and long-standing PRIO associate) has been awarded the prestigious Karl Deutsch Award, an annual mid-career award that recognizes scholars in International Relations under the age of 40 or within ten years of defending their dissertation.
The winner of the award ‘is judged to have made (through a body of publications) the most significant contribution to the study of International Relations and Peace Research.’
Congratulations to Nils!
New Book: Transnational Dynamics of Civil War
The book Transnational Dynamics of Civil War (Cambridge University Press) presents research completed in 2010-12 by one of the working groups of PRIO’s Center for the Study of Civil War (CSCW). The authors take on the challenge of explaining how cross-border groups and interactions shape the course of civil wars and the potentials for ending the violence.
Conference on Paramilitaries, Militias, and Civil Defense Forces - Call for Papers
The Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale University MacMillan Center announces a conference on Conference on Paramilitaries, Militias, and Civil Defense Forces in Civil Wars, to be held 19-20 October 2012.
Paper by Shapiro and Weidmann presented in the Monkey Cage blog
Jake Shapiro and Nils Weidmann's paper "Talking About Killing: Cell Phones, Collective Action, and Insurgent Violence in Iraq" was presented on the frequently-read academic blog called the Monkey Cage. The question is, does improved communication as provided by modern cell phone technology affect the production of violence during insurgencies?
Special Issue of Journal of Conflict Resolution
The August issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution is a special issue dedicated to output from the Disaggregating Civil War project. This project (GROW) is a collaboration between CSCW (PRIO), University of Essex and ETH Zürich. This special issue is edited by Lars-Erik Cederman and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch.
Stuart A. Bremer Award 2008 to Nils B. Weidmann
We are delighted to announce that this year's Stuart A. Bremer Graduate Travel Award is given to Nils B. Weidmann, ETH Zurich, for his paper "Violence and the Changing Ethnic Map: The Endogeneity of Territory and Conflict in Bosnia" that was presented at the 2008 Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference in Amsterdam. Congratulations!
Social Media and Protest
GROW-Net Workshop
Facts and Myths about Civil Wars
Transnationalism, Mechanisms and Civil War
The Dynamics of Institutional Change and Conflict
