RJ announces 39.7M SEK grant for 'Societies at Risk'
2022-02-09
Uppsala University awarded a 39.7M SEK grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) to study the effect of armed conflict on human development
Research programme: Societies at Risk – the effect of armed conflict on human development
Principal Investigator: Håvard Hegre
Participating researchers: Håvard Hegre, Ashok Swain, Paola Vesco, Magnus Öberg, Nina von Uexkull, and Jonathan Hall at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University; Johan von Schreeb and Anneli Eriksson at Karolinska Institutet; Debarati Guha-Sapir at CRED; Tilman Brück at ISDC; Hannes Mueller at the Barcelona School of Economics; Michael Colaresi at University of Pittsburgh, Staffan Lindberg at University of Gothenburg, and Christopher Rauh at University of Cambridge.
Programme period: 2022-01-01 – 2027-12-31
Abstract: Armed conflict is human development in reverse. The full scale of conflicts’ impacts remains unknown, however, and fragmentation of research into multiple academic fields limits our understand- ing. This multi-disciplinary programme brings together scholars from economics, epidemiology, political science, and conflict research to study the impacts in much more detail and comprehensiveness than earlier studies. It takes a risk-analysis perspective, assessing the expected impact as a function of hazard, exposure, and vulnerability, and consider effects at both the macro and micro level, on economies, health, water security, political institutions and human rights, and forced migration. It will model exposure to conflict events by accounting for how effects of observed, overt violence are transmitted to locations far from the violence itself and over time, identify conditions that make local communities, marginalized groups, and women particularly vulnerable to the effects, and study how conflict increases their vulnerability to other shocks such as natural disasters. Hazard will be modeled through an early-warning system, expanding the well-established ViEWS system, to also alert observers to particularly detrimental occurrences of violence. Throughout, the programme will study how the various impacts and vulnerabilities identified work to reinforce each other, and formulate policy recommendations for parties seeking to reduce the impact on human development.
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Stream the launch of "Societies at Risk"
2022-10-19
Did you miss the launch of Societies at Risk this spring and want to learn more about the team's upcoming research on the impacts of armed conflict on human development? You can now stream the recording from the event via the project's YouTube channel.
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Welcome to the launch of the new research project 'Societies at Risk' on 20 May 2022
2022-04-12
We are pleased to invite you to the launch of a new six-year research project at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research: ‘Societies at Risk: the Impact of Armed Conflict on Human Development’.
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RJ announces 39.7M SEK grant for 'Societies at Risk'
2022-02-09
Uppsala University awarded a 39.7M SEK grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) to study the effect of armed conflict on human development
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Call for applications: Programmer, Department of Peace and Conflict Research
2020-06-26
The Department of Peace and Conflict Research seeks a programmer to work with the project ViEWS and The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP).
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Call for applications: Researcher, ViEWS
2020-02-06
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Prediction competition
2020-02-04
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ViEWS featured in the November/December issue of MIT Technological Review
2019-11-04
In the article 'We are finally getting better at predicting organized conflict', MIT Technological Review looks into advancements in the field of conflict prediction. The article features ViEWS and the Early Warning Project from the US Holocaust Museum and Dartmouth College.
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Open Access - ViEWS overview article in Journal of Peace Research
2019-06-27
ViEWS published its overview article in Journal of Peace Research 56(2), pp. 155–174. The article is openly available and can be accessed here.
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Policy Dialogue Day
2019-03-08
The Policy Dialogue Day is an event organized by the V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Institute, the QoG (Quality of Government) Institute, GLD-Gothenburg (Program for Governance and Local Development), UCPD (Uppsala Conflict Data Program) and ViEWS (a Political Violence Early- Warning System). The conference aims to provide insight on questions relating to democracy and governance, and to serve as a meeting platform for practitioners, policy makers, and academics.
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New blog post in Monkey Cage: "U.N. peacekeeping really can be effective."
2018-06-28
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First public forecasts from ViEWS: a political Violence Early-Warning System
2018-06-08
The challenges of preventing, mitigating, and adapting to largescale political violence are daunting, particularly when violence escalates where it is not expected. With funding from the European Research Council, ViEWS is developing a system that is rigorous, data-based, and publicly available to researchers and the international community. On 7 June, ViEWS released its first public forecasts for Africa.
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Policy Dialogue Day
2018-04-19
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ViEWS welcomes new researcher
2017-10-10
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First annual ViEWS workshop
2017-09-27
ViEWS held its first annual workshop 25-26 September in Uppsala. The workshop consisted of a total of 30 participants who over the course of two days discussed forecasting advances in the field as well as within the project.
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Håvard Hegre receives the Lilly and Sven Thuréus award
2017-08-29
The Department congratulates Håvard Hegre who received the Lilly and Sven Thuréus award, the technical-economic class, on 29 August.
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Håvard Hegre elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science Letters
2017-05-03
Dag Hammarskjöld Professor Håvard Hegre was elected into the Norwegian Academy of Science Letters in March 2017.
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Kick-off meeting for the ViEWS project
2017-01-18
In the photo from the left: Lisa Hultman, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Desirée Nilsson,
Jonas Nordkvelle, Hanne Fjelde, Stina Högbladh, Nina von Uexkull, David Randahl,
Mihai Croicu, Håvard Hegre, Frederick Hoyles, Halvard Buhaug, Sayeed Auwn MuhammedThe ViEWS project started up with a kick-off meeting on 17–18 January. The project, directed by Håvard Hegre and involving Hanne Fjelde, Lisa Hultman, Desiree Nilsson, as well as an international team of researchers, will develop, test, and iteratively improve a pilot Violence Early-Warning System (ViEWS).
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Håvard Hegre elected Vice-President of the International Studies Association
2017-01-01
In the recent elections in the International Studies Association, Håvard Hegre, Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University was elected Vice-President for the 2018-19 term.