As of April 2023, ISDC Director Tilman Brück has joined the board of the Passau International Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (PICAIS). The appointment is for two years. The Passau International Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (PICAIS) is the central platform for interdisciplinary research and networking of visiting scholars from Germany and abroad at the […]
Peacebuilding Research Program Director Neil Ferguson’s newest article with Alicia Barriga, Nathan Fiala, and Martin Leroch has been published in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. The article, titled “Ethnic Cooperation and Conflict in Kenya,” examines the effects of ethnic divisions and violence on social capital and economic interactions in Kenya. The authors conducted […]
Peacebuilding Researcher Paulina Rebolledo traveled to Guatemala this June as part of our flagship PeaceFIELD project to participate in two workshops on site. The purpose of these workshops was to empower United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) recipients, implementing partners, and community leaders. The first workshop, held in Guatemala City, focused on capacity building with PBF […]
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 […]
Globally, one in three women experience intimate partner violence (IPV) over their lifetimes. Yet, the factors that cause men to commit IPV remain poorly understood. In a newly published open access paper in the Journal of Development Economics, Wolfgang Stojetz and Tilman Brück propose a causal long-term link from past exposure to gender-based collective violence […]
Ghassan Baliki, Dorothee Weiffen, Tilman Brück, and Gwendolyn Moiles‘ paper ‘Home garden interventions in crisis and emergency settings’ has been published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. While home gardens are popular among donors and NGOs, the evidence base for their impacts is weak. Using a three-pronged approach (triangulating evidence from academic literature, expert discussion […]
Damir Esenaliev’s research on welfare effects of export participation by household farms in Kyrgyzstan is published at The Journal of Development Studies. In this article, Damir uses the Life in Kyrgyzstan data for 2010-13 and analyses if small farms in Kyrgyzstan improve their welfare by selling their products to export markets. He finds no evidence […]
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 […]
We are pleased to invite the submission of proposals for individual research papers and panel sessions at the 9th Annual ‘Life in Kyrgyzstan’ Conference (LiK) to be held in the Park Hotel in Bishkek on October 11-12, 2023. In addition to two keynote speeches and two days of thematic panel sessions, the conference includes the […]
ISDC Director Tilman Brück is presenting preliminary results from a joint project with the International Trade Centre (ITC) at a joint HiCN-UNU WIDER-NEPS Workshop titled ‘War and Reconstruction in Ukraine’ in Helsinki on 8 May, 2023. The workshop and subsequent policy panel will link stakeholders across research and policy communities to build up combined capacities. […]
More than 10 years after the publication of the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA): Women in agriculture report, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published a new report: The status of women in agrifood systems. The 2010/2011 SOFA report went into detail describing the costs of gender inequalities for […]
ISDC Director Tilman Brück‘s recent article (with Mekdim Regassa from the Leibniz Institute for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops) in Food Security is now also available in print. The article surveys efforts that track food security in Africa using phone surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors recommend that the scientific community focuses on countries (and […]
ISDC’s Director of the Peacebuilding Research Program, Neil Ferguson, frequently examines what impacts experiencing conflict has on prosocial behavior – and how these dynamics could help peacebuilding efforts. In a new blog published by Vision of Humanity, Neil reflects on his research and the current state of micro-level literature. He connects the existing trends with […]
We’re happy to announce that our research on North-east Nigeria has been published as a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper. The paper analyzes how the intersectionality of gender, forced displacement, and collective violence shapes coping behaviors in conflict crises, paying particular attention to household composition by gender and age. Drawing on survey data from […]
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 […]
Registrations have opened for our upcoming training session on conducting Rigorous Impact Evaluations (RIEs) in Humanitarian Emergencies and Conflict Settings (HECS) The free training will include 3 separate sessions and run on 14 / 15 / 16 March 2023. You can find the full details on our event page or register by filling out our […]
The German magazine on science and society DUZ recently portrayed ISDC Founder & Director Tilman Brück. The portrait goes into the research interests that have influenced Tilman’s academic career – from the micro-level impacts of conflict, over the economics of war, to the founding of a new Zero Hunger Lab. Through this, it shows how […]
Building on our FAO Impact Evaluation in Syria, Ghassan shared insights on how we developed unique approaches to account for the ongoing crisis in our study. The session took place on the 23rd of February, 2023 and will also featured contributions from Jeannie Annan (International Rescue Committee), Marcella Vigneri (London School of Hygiene and Tropical […]
ISDC Founder and Director Tilman Brück appeared in the newest episode of the detektor.fm podcast “Zurück zum Thema”. In reaction to recent political developments in Germany, the interview questions how pacifist it can be to supply weapons for an active conflict. Tilman makes the argument that the goal of pacifism is not absolute non-violence. Sometimes, […]
More than half of the adult population in the West Bank and Gaza screen positive for depression. In Gaza specifically, the rate climbs to 71%. This is shown in the new report Mental Health in the West Bank and Gaza – a joint effort by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the World Bank, […]
