New research on how rural youth experience political violence, conducted by Ghassan Baliki (Senior Researcher at ISDC), Tilman Brück (Director at ISDC), Neil Ferguson (Senior Researcher at ISDC) and Wolfgang Stojetz (Senior Researcher at ISDC) has been highlighted in the 2019 edition of IFAD’s Rural Development Report, “Creating Opportunities for Rural Youth”. The research shows that rural youth are disproportionately affected by conflict, with at least 350 million, per year, living in countries that are affected by conflict. In turn, already constrained rural young people are more likely to face adversities associated with conflict than other groups. In particular, education accumulation, transition to employment and career development are likely to be further harmed. The background paper can be found here.
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Ghassan Baliki presenting at the Annual Workshop of the AFK Methods Working Group
Ghassan Baliki presented his working paper Crowd-seeding conflict and peace event data in Syria at the Annual Workshop of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK) Methods Working Group. The conference this year was devoted to papers that explore new qualitative and quantitative data in peace and conflict research. The workshop took place […]
New Article: Can rigorous impact evaluations improve humanitarian assistance?
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New Publication: Peace and Conflict 2016
An authoritative source of information on violent conflicts and peacebuilding processes around the world, Peace and Conflict is an annual publication of the University of Maryland’s Center for International Development and Conflict Management and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva). The publication includes an overview of recent advances in scholarly research on […]