Over many years and several projects, understanding food security in Syria has been part of ISDC’s work. One of our closest partners during this time was Dr. Mike Robson, who is the FAO Representative in Syria. We were delighted to be able to welcome Mike in Berlin last week and thrilled that he also agreed […]
In June, Behavior Research Program Director Wolfgang Stojetz traveled to Palermo to speak as a Senior Expert at ‘“Working & Networking” on Climate Change and Innovation for Sustainable Agrifood Systems’. Wolfgang discussed compounding climatic and non-climatic challenges in North-east Nigeria, based on the work we are doing for a project funded by the Food and […]
Behavior Researcher Piero Ronzani and Welfare Senior Researcher Aysegül Kayaoglu traveled to Bologna, Italy this June to present at the 22nd Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference. The annual conference gives researchers the opportunity to speak on any issue broadly related to peace and security and is hosted by the Network of European Peace Scientists […]
Tilman Brück, Wolfgang Stojetz, and Mekdim Regassa presented the results of our joint Life with Corona – Africa project at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) this week. We presented at the BMBF’s Status Seminar, where all the projects funded under the “Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects (ELSA) of Modern Life Sciences” […]
Peacebuilding Researcher Lame Ungwang and Welfare Researcher Dorothee Weiffen traveled to Gothenburg, Sweden this month to participate in the Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE). Spread over 3 days, the annual conference brought together 100 participants in development economics from across Europe. Doro presented early-stage work from our project in South Sudan in a session […]
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 […]
