Melodie Al Daccache has joined our Welfare Research Program, where she will be working alongside Ghassan Baliki, Ayşegül Kayaoğlu, Mariami Marsagishvili, and Dorothee Weiffen. Her research focuses on food security, nutrition, women’s health, livelihoods, and gender equity in developing contexts, especially in crisis-affected settings. Melodie is also a PhD candidate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, holds […]
ISDC’s Peacebuilding Research Program welcomes a new member: Theodora Benesch is our newest Junior Researcher! Theodora holds a Master’s Degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University in Sweden and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Goethe University. Her research interests relate to peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and gender as well as nonviolent movements, negotiations, and […]
Lame Ungwang from our Peacebuilding Program was scheduled to defend her PhD dissertation this April, and we’re delighted to announce she was successful! Everyone at ISDC could not be more proud of Lame. Lame’s dissertation is titled Essays in Behavioral Economics: Experimental Evidence on Explicit and Implicit Incentives and uses evidence from Uganda and Botswana […]
ISDC’s Damir Esenaliev moderated a presentation of former Kyrgyz Prime Minister Djoomart Otorbaev’s new book, ‘Central Asia’s Economic Rebirth in the Shadow of the New Great Game’ in Berlin on the 23rd of March, 2023. The book is a deep dive into Central Asia’s post-Soviet economic and political transformation and the challenges it faces as […]
Tilman Brück has been appointed Professor of Food Security, State Fragility and Climate Change at the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich. Tilman’s appointment at the NRI strengthens ISDC’s international networks and opens new collaborations for the analysis of how weak institutions, shocks and climate change shape lives and livelihoods around the world.
Dr Damir Esenaliev joined ISDC as a Senior Researcher in January 2019. He brings topical expertise on peace-building, social cohesion, human development, labor markets, inequality, and rural development, and regional expertise in Central Asian and transition economies. Damir also has extensive experience designing and conducting panel data collection and impact evaluations. He will continue his […]
