The consortium of the Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC) organised its first meeting on 31 October - 3 November 2011 at DIW Berlin. The Kick-Off Workshop brought together core and associated partners of the network as well as TAMNEAC Marie Curie fellows. Participants included academics, policymakers, NGO staff and private sector representatives.The first two ...
On 15th September 2011, the Kyrgyztsan project team organised a workshop on "Panel Data and the Life in Kyrgyztsan Survey" in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The workshop was hosted by the American University of Central Asia and was funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Fifty representatives of the Kyrgyz government, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, universities, ...
The call for proposals in Security research and Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Research in the 7th Framework Programme has been published. The Department of Development and Security is seeking cooperation with potential project partners to form a consortium and to contribute with the research into the economics of poverty, war, reconstruction (in particular in Central Asia and Africa), terrorism, ...
The project Economic Transformation, Household Behavior and Well-Being in Central Asia: The Case of Kyrgyzstan started in 2010 and aims to collect panel survey data in Kyrgyzstan, to investigate well-being and household behaviour in this country, and to improve research capacity within the Central Asian region. Currently, members of the project team are in Kyrgyzstan to prepare the second wave of the ...
The project PiraT (Piracy and Maritime Terrorism as a Challenge for Maritime Trade Security: Indicators, Perceptions and Options for Action) was declared BMBF project of the month June. PiraT aims to provide a forum in which representatives of politics, business and academia can exchange views and share knowledge on maritime trade security. These exchanges will serve as case studies for examining and ...
Together with the Open Knowledge Foundation, Guo Xu won the third prize at the Worldbank competition "Apps for Development". Their interactive app allows you to sum up human development according to your own criteria and, through a short quiz, choose how important different dimensions of development are to you. You can then participate in constructing a multiple-dimension index of human development. ...
Anja Shortland und Olaf de Groot in the Economist ("Brigands seeking harbours: Why pirates like a little law and order")Tilman Brück in the Handelsblatt ("Warum Al Kaida ein florierendes Terror-Unternehmen bleibt")
The Project "Economic Transformation, Household Behaviour and Well-Being in Central Asia: The Case of Kyrgyzstan" funded by the Volkswagen Foundation has been launched in September 2009. The aim of the project is to extend the available knowledge about the socio-economic processes in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia and improve research capacity (concerning both methodology and analysis) within ...
Just published: special issue on the "Micro-Level Analysis of Violent Conflict" of the "Journal of Peace Research" guest-edited by Philip Verwimp, Tilman Brück and Patricia Justino. For further information, see Sage Publications website and HiCN website.