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Sabine Carey, Eline Drury Løvlien, Felix Olsowski, Christoph Steinert, Cosima Meyer, and Anna-Lena Hönig are participating in the fourth “Workshop on Conflict Dynamics”  held 28.09.-29.09.2020. The workshop is co-organized by Cosima Meyer (University of Mannheim), Anna-Lena Hönig (University of ...

Who are Our Experts? Predictors of Participation in Expert Surveys. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy . Ahead of print. doi.org/10.1515/peps-2020-0007 Who are the colleagues participating when asked to complete expert surveys? This research note systematically investigates ...

We are extremely pleased to announce that Dr Katrin Paula, former PhD student at the Chair, has received yet another prize for her PhD thesis “Micro-Dynamics of Mobilization: Evidence from the German Democratic Republic” – this time from the Foundation for Communication and Media Science! ...

On 27 July 2020, Julia Semmelbeck successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “The Illicit Business of Terrorism”. The examination committee consisted of Thomas Bräuninger, Sabine Carey, and Laura Dugan.

Cosima Meyer was invited to present her research and work in data science at Women in Data Science 2020, a global initiative to inspire and educate data scientists. The event was facilitated in collaboration with Stanford University, SAP Next-Gen, and the International Program in Survey and Data ...

Christian Gläßel successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Subversive Threats, Repression, and Stability” on 10 June 2020 with top marks. The examination committee consisted of Sabine Carey, Scott Gates and Nikolay Marinov. Christian has already started his new position as Postdoctoral ...

Katrin Paula has been awarded the Lorenz-von-Stein Prize 2019 for her doctoral thesis “Micro-Dynamics of Mobilization: Evidence from the German Democratic Republic”. The Lorenz-von-Stein Prize honors outstanding dissertations in Political Science, Social Psychology, and Sociology. Congratulations, ...

We are pleased to announce the 4th edition of the Workshop on Conflict Dynamics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 28–29 September 2020.   The aim is to bring together early career researchers working on armed conflict, broadly defined, to discuss and receive feedback on their research from ...

From March 16, 2020 the secretariat will be closed but can be reached via email (christine.krisch(at)sowi.uni-mannheim.de).

Carey, S. C. and González, B. (2020). The legacy of war: The effect of militias on postwar repression. Conflict Management and Peace Science : CMPS, 1–23. How do wartime legacies affect repression after the conflict ends? Irregular forces support the government in many civil wars. We argue that if ...