Workshop

UNU-WIDER takes part in UN Youth of Finland's Youth Peace Week 21 September 2023. In partnership with UN Youth of Finland and Saferglobe, UNU-WIDER organizes Young voices in peace research.

Panel discussion

Workshop

From 8–9 May 2023, UNU-WIDER holds a research workshop bringing together an international group of researchers with expertise in conflict and peacebuilding to discuss new research that can support policymakers’ discussions on the stabilization...

Project workshop

Seminar

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Finland organise a special seminar on Violence, Inequality...

Project workshop

As part of the UNU-WIDER project Institutional legacies of violent conflict, project contributors under Theme A1: WWII and the legacies of fascism in Europe come together on 4 November 2021 at 3pm to present and discuss their research papers in...

Presentation

Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) organises their 17th Annual workshop on 11-12 October 2021 under the theme “Conflict, Migration, and Displacement“. UNU-WIDER's Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino is the co-founder and co-director of the...

Presentation

On 29 September 2021 Patricia Justino joins a virtual roundtable ‘The Future of Civil War Studies’ at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition. 117th American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting & Exhibition will be held on 30 September...

Presentation

Patricia 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 the EU...

Presentation

Tillman 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 paper...

Seminar

Presentation

On 4 February 2020, UNU-WIDER's Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino will be giving a presentation at an event organised by Sweden’s government agency for development cooperation Sida as part of their Department for Africa’s planning days. The...

Presentation

Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) is organising their 16th Annual workshop on 10-11 November 2020. UNU-WIDER's Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino is the co-founder and co-director of the HiCN and will co-host the conference. The event will...

Project workshop

Panel discussion

On 10 September UNU-WIDER will be participating in a panel at the 2020 APSA Virtual Annual Meeting & Exhibition, on the topic of Clientelist Politics and Development. The panel, chaired by UNU-WIDER's Senior Research Fellow Rachel M. Gisselquist...

Project workshop

Panel discussion

UNU-WIDER Special Session: Thursday 19 June, 2014, 16:00-17:30 Lessons from UNU-WIDER research: Research and Communication on Foreign Aid; Development Under Climate Change; and Learning to Compete

Workshop

Workshop organized by the South African National Biodiversity Institute to discuss climate change impacts and adaptation options in South Africa.

Workshop

The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana organized a two-day workshop on 'Modelling the Biophysical...

Seminar

South Africa announced in February 2012 that it will introduce a carbon tax to reduce the country’s high levels of greenhouse gas emissions and assist in the global effort to curb climate change. This makes South Africa one of the first countries...

Presentation

The meeting was convened by the Department for Development Policy at Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. UNU-WIDER presented an overview of its research and training activities in the area of climate change, and received comments from Nordic...

Seminar

For some, biofuels is a development opportunity that could generate economic growth and create jobs in the Africa's often-underperforming rural economies. For others, biofuels is yet another example of 'foreign land-grabbing' in Africa that could...

Workshop

United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) host a project on Climate Change. This workshop organized in Nairobi is to discuss and compile a curriculum...

Lecture

UNU-WIDER in collaboration with the African Economics Research Consortium (AERC) will hold a one week course on the 'Economics of Climate Change' at the School of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa. African and international lecturers...

Lecture

UNU-WIDER, in collaboration with the African Economics Research Consortium (AERC), held a three week online course on the 'The Science of Climate Change and Biophysical Modeling'. International lecturers introduced course participants to the science...

Workshop

UNU-WIDER's Development under Climate Change project held its second workshop at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

Presentation

James Thurlow, Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER gave a guest lecture on Cllimate Change and Economic Development' at the Master's course on Growth and Development at the University of Tampere.

Presentation

The lecture was held by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Finn Tarp, and the focus was on sustainable development of developing countries in a time of climate change.

Seminar

In anticipation of the Rio+20 Preparatory Meetings scheduled for March 2011, the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNU-WIDER jointly hosted a workshop to discuss the potential benefits and limitations of Green Growth for developing countries.

Seminar

Adapting to Climate Change: An Integrated Biophysical and Economic Assessment for Mozambique by James Thurlow & Impacts of Fair Trade in Coffee: Impacts on the Global Coffee Markets by Pertti Haaparanta.

Seminar

Approaches for analysing the implications of climate change and appropriate policy responses from the perspective of low-income economies will be presented drawing on detailed country work conducted in Bangladesh, Ghana, Ethiopia, Mozambique...

Workshop

The principal objective of the workshop was to evaluate the implications of climate change for developing countries including impacts, adaptation policies, mitigation policies, and their interactions with appropriate development strategies.