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The latest updates from the VIEWS consortium
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Posted on 4 Dec 2023
Fulbright Scholarship
Congratulations to Chandler Williams for receiving a Fulbright Research Fellowship from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Based in Kosovo, he will explore the relationship between armed conflict and conflict-related destruction during the Kosovo War. Through statistical analysis and interviews, he aims to provide insights on when destruction is used…
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Posted on 1 Dec 2023
Households in Conflict Network Workshop
During the 23-24 of November VIEWS members Thorsten Rogall and Sofia Nordenving participated in the 19th annual workshop of the Households in Conflict Network in Brussels. The theme was on “Trust and Development in Conflict Affected Countries” and they presented one working paper called “Women’s Empowerment and Post-Conflict Recovery after Mass Killings” and one called…
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Posted on 28 Nov 2023
VIEWS featured on German TV
Members of the VIEWS team were recently featured on an episode entitled “The Science of War and Peace” on the show “Leschs Kosmos” of German TV station ZDF. The episode is available here, and VIEWS is featured from minutes 2–6.
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Posted on 2 Nov 2023
VIEWS at #Data4Peace conference
Last week’s Data for Peace Conference hosted by the NYU CIC in New York was filled with interesting sessions on state-of-the-art research and expert discussions on how we can leverage data for sustainable peace. Watch Operations and Outreach Manager Angelica Lindqvist-McGowan and Senior Researcher Simon Polichinel von Der Maase present VIEWS here. Simon also participated…
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Posted on 2 Nov 2023
VIEWS presentation at #Data4Peace Conference
Operations and Outreach Manager Angelica Lindqvist-McGowan and Senior Researcher Simon Polichinel von Der Maase presenting VIEWS at Data4Peace. Presentation slides are available here.
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Posted on 1 Nov 2023
AI, Conflict and Early Warning Panel at PRIO AI Days
Several members of the VIEWS Team contributed to the panel “AI on Conflict and Early Warning” at the PRIO AI Days on 25 October 2023. The panel discussed opportunities and challenges brought about by language-learning models that are used for conflict early-warning systems. It reviewed state-of-the-art methods to extract information on political events from large…
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Posted on 1 Nov 2023
Prediction Competition Workshop 2023
From 9-11 October 2023, the VIEWS Prediction Competition Workshop took place in Berlin, Germany, hosted by the German Federal Foreign Office.
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Posted on 16 Oct 2023
Podcast Episode with Jim Dale and Mert Can Yilmaz on AI, Peace & Conflict
New episode from the Uppsala University “Researching Peace” podcast, featuring the VIEWS programmer Jim Dale.
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Posted on 6 Oct 2023
“Emerging Best Practices for Predictive Model Development and Use” – VIEWS panel at the NYU CIC Conflict Early Warning/Early Action workshop in May 2021
VIEWS panel at the NYU CIC Conflict Early Warning/Early Action Workshop in May 2021 on advancements in predictive model development for violence prevention, addressing the need for improved early warning systems, broad collaboration, actor layer details, and how accurate predictions can augment policy decisions and preventative strategies.
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Posted on 6 Oct 2023
Lightning Talk on VIEWS at the “Emerging Technologies in Peacebuilding and Prevention” Virtual Practitioners Workshop 2021
At the 2021 Emerging Technologies in Peacebuilding Workshop, VIEWS Director Håvard Hegre discussed the use of quantitative early-warning systems for predicting political violence, advocating for the ‘continuous multi-period incidence target’.
