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UNU-WIDER at the World Village Festival 2022
Project workshop
Workshop on Institutional legacies of violent conflict
Working Paper
Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societiesTo date, there is limited understanding about the consequences of wartime dynamics for post-war state-building processes...
Political violence War ConflictPanel discussion
UNU-WIDER at ISA 2022 Annual ConventionUNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino and Research Associate Rute Martins Caeiro join in a virtual panel discussion Trust and Governance in Unstable Democracies on 29 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30 (UTC-5) as part of the International Studies...
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Superpowers, super-spoilers, and hybrid warfare: What the new Cold War means for global cooperation
Last week we woke up to a conflict that had echoes of the Second World War, the Cold War, and the last two decades of hybrid conflict all mixed into one. It is difficult to look beyond the immediate suffering and scale of violations in Ukraine...
Conflict War Armed conflictBlog
How will the Russia-Ukraine war be fought?: External support and insurgency tactics
The Ukrainian state, personified by its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy , has been heroic and has surprised many by its ' stiff resistance '. However, Ukrainian cities are increasingly under siege and Russia is sending in reinforcements...
Conflict WarBlog
The conflict in Ukraine - the role of civilians
While there is much to discuss about the geopolitics of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, let's not forget the men, women and children of Ukraine who now face utter devastation to their lives – they matter...
Conflict War Civic participationWorking Paper
The legacies of armed conflict: insights from stayees and returning forced migrantsHow does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the relative impact of exposure to violence on these indicators?...
Trust Conflict Forced migrationWorking Paper
An exploration of the association between fuel subsidies and fuel riotsBetween 2005 and 2018, 41 countries had at least one riot directly associated with popular demand for fuel. We make use of a new international dataset on fuel riots to explore the effects of fuel prices and price regimes on fuel riots...
Fuel subsidies Riots protestPanel discussion
How to get inclusive growth started in fragile contexts
Working Paper
The legacy of conflict: aggregate evidence from Sierra LeoneThis paper studies the general equilibrium impact of civil war in Sierra Leone. I first use an instrumental variable (IV) strategy and geographic conflict variation to estimate reduced-form effects...
Conflict Livelihoods Structural transformationPresentation
Patricia Justino presenting on COVID-19 and conflict dynamics at FIIA webinarPatricia Justino will present on COVID-19 and conflict dynamics at an online event organised by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) on 27 May 2021. The event, Covid-19 effects on peace and conflict dynamics – Implications for...
Presentation
Tillman Hönig presents at the European Meeting of the Urban Economics AssociationTillman Hönig , Research Associate at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting his ongong research The Legacy of Conflict: Aggregate Evidence from Sierra Leone at the 10th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association on 30 April 2021, 2pm CEST. His...
Seminar
Bruno Martorano on protests and social mobilization during the COVID-19 pandemic
Blog
Why do we see boom-and-bust growth in fragile and conflict-affected states?
One of the most pressing challenges in development policy is to bring about rapid, sustained, and inclusive growth in developing countries...
Fragile states Conflict Economic growthBlog
Our project on the institutional legacies of violent conflict One of the most critical challenges in international development today is to understand how best to support peace, security, economic recovery, and legitimate political authority in fragile and conflict-affected countries...
Institutions Conflict Post-conflict