Truth is the first casualty of war, as the ancient Greeks observed. Hence conducting rigorous analyses about the relationships between socio-economic development and security – and how to improve these outcomes – requires, in the first instance, collecting reliable information. This raises conceptual, methodological, practical and ethical, concerns. ISDC develops quantitative and qualitative methodologies to address these concerns and thereby to enable high quality research in settings shaped by war, disaster or weak institutions. We also provide innovative techniques to measure these conditions, focusing on the exposure of individuals, households and firms to such circumstances. We regularly employ mixed methods to triangulate our research designs and findings and we stress the importance of longitudinal (or panel data) designs to account for unobservable characteristics.
Micro-Data Collection
- Welfare Effects of Smallholder Export Participation: Evidence from Panel Data in Kyrgyzstan
- Exposure to collective gender-based violence causes intimate partner violence
- How to conduct impact evaluations in humanitarian and conflict settings
- Conducting (Long-term) Impact Evaluations in Humanitarian and Conflict Settings: Evidence from a complex agricultural intervention in Syria
- Mental Health in the West Bank and Gaza
- Violent conflict moderates food security impacts of agricultural asset transfers in Syria: A heterogeneity analysis using machine learning
- The Life with Corona Survey
- Ethnic inequality and forced displacement
- Weather shocks across seasons and child health: Evidence from a panel study in the Kyrgyz Republic
- Data Options for Assessing Gender Dimensions of Forced Displacement : A Background Note
- Social Cohesion, Ethnicity and Well-Being: Results from an Intervention Study in Kyrgyzstan
- Life With Corona: Increased Gender Differences in Aggression and Depression Symptoms Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic Burden in Germany
- Inter-relationships between Fragility and Poverty: A Micro-level Analysis in Kenya
- A White Paper on Identifying Priority Variables on Households, Firms and Markets for Understanding Micro-Dynamics of Food Security in Insecure Situations
- The Wisdom Of Seeking Crowd Wisdom. Reflections on the ethics of using crowdsourcing and crowdseeding to collect data in conflict zones
- New Report: Life with Corona – Shared Global Sentiments and Stark Generational Divides
- What Works And What’s Next For Social Stability In Jordan?
- The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace in Kyrgyzstan
- Long-term behavioural impact of an integrated home garden intervention: evidence from Bangladesh
- ADB Country Diagnostic Study: Kyrgyz Republic: Improving Growth Potential
- Conflict and development: Recent research advances and future agendas
- On the Legacies of Wartime Governance
- Household survey data for research on well-being and behavior in Central Asia
- The Microeconomics of Violent Conflict
- Measuring Violent Conflict in Micro-Level Surveys: Current Practices and Methodological Challenges
- New Developments in Measuring the Welfare Effects of Conflict Exposure at the Micro-Level
- A Micro-Level Perspective on the Dynamics of Conflict, Violence and Development
- Peacebuilding Fund Impact Evaluation, Learning and Dissemination: Phase 2 (PeaceFIELD2)
- Support for the FAO Impact Analysis of the “Restoring food and nutrition security of affected Farming and pastoral communities in Sudan” project
- Impact Evaluation of OCHA’s Anticipatory Action in Bentiu, South Sudan
- Impact Evaluation of a Social Safety Net Intervention in the Republic of Congo
- Resilience in North-East Nigeria
- Mental Health in the West Bank and Gaza
- Women’s Action Committees and Local Services
- Peacebuilding Fund Impact Evaluation, Learning and Dissemination: Phase 1 (PeaceFIELD1)
- Life with Corona in Africa
- SEEDS: Long-term Impacts of a Complex Agricultural Intervention on Welfare, Behaviour and Stability in Syria
- Inequality and Governance in Unstable Democracies: The Mediating Role of Trust
- Child Development in the Context of a School Feeding Program in Kyrgyzstan
- Data Gap Analysis for Sustainable Development Goals 16 in Uganda
- Seeds of Resilience: A Quasi-experimental Impact Analysis of an FAO Emergency Intervention in Syria
- Measuring Violent Conflict in Micro-Level Surveys: Training Course
- Crowdsourcing Conflict and Peace ‘Events’ in the Syrian Conflict
- An Impact Evaluation of ‘Living Side By Side’ in Kyrgyzstan
- Post-war Intimate Partner Violence in Angola
- War and Reconstruction in Ukraine – an Academic Workshop
- 7th Annual ‘Life in Kyrgyzstan’ Conference
- 17th Annual Workshop of the Households in Conflict Network: Conflict, Migration, and Displacement
- HG4RR Webinar Series: Nutrition Income Generation Intervention, Uganda
- 15th Annual HiCN Workshop “New Methods in Empirical Conflict Research”
- 2019 Life in Kyrgyzstan Conference