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During the international and interdiciplinary workshop Climate, Environment and Food connections at Uppsala University 19-21 September, Paola Vesco gave one of the public keynote lectures. Her topic covered Climate, conflict, and vulnerabilities: insights from the Societies at Risk Project. In the session on Societal responses towards climate and environmental change, also VIEWS member Stefan Döring…

Title: “Could vote buying be socially desirable? Exploratory analyses of a ‘failed’ list experiment” Authors: Sophia Hatz, Hanna Fjelde, and David Randahl Year: 2023 Publisher: Quality & Quantity International Journal of Methodology Abstract: List experiments encourage survey respondents to report sensitive opinions they may pre- fer not to reveal. But, studies sometimes find that respondents…

Title: “Predicting armed conflict using protest data” Authors: Espen Geelmuyden Rød, Håvard Hegre, and Maxine Leis Year: 2023 Publisher: Journal of Peace Research Abstract: Protest is a low-intensity form of political conflict that can precipitate intrastate armed conflict. Data on protests should therefore be informative in systems that provide early warnings of armed conflict. However,…

Interested in an R package that allows you to model and draw inferences from extreme value inflated count data? Check out evinf by VIEWS member David Randahl.

We are starting off September with many new additions to the VIEWS teams in Oslo and Uppsala, who we are happy to present below! At PRIO, Chandler Williams continues on the VIEWS team after his two years as Research Assistant. Since August, he is a Doctoral Researcher working on developing forecasting methods on armed groups’…

New episode from the Uppsala University “Researching Peace” podcast, featuring the VIEWS researcher Stefan Döring.

Title: Spatial patterns of communal violence in sub-Saharan Africa Authors: Stefan Döring and Katariina Mustasilta Year: 2023 Publisher: Journal of Peace Research Abstract: Communal violence is a major source of insecurity within and across borders, sparking significant displacement flows and disturbing livelihoods. While conflict literature has shed light onto its causes, the existing research has paid…

Title: Drought exposure decreases altruism with salient group identities as key moderator Authors: Stefan Döring and Jonathan Hall Year: 2023 Publisher: Nature Climate Change Abstract: Previous research on climate change impact regularly considers conflict outcomes, thereby disregarding cooperative behaviour such as altruism. Drought has the potential to fuel inter-ethnic cleavages, thus contributing to conflicts. Yet this…

Stefan Döring was elected on a four-year mandate as an associated researcher with the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) International Research Working Groups. FBA is the Swedish government agency for peace, security and development and Stefan will be part of the Climate Security group. Elected researchers are expected to strengthen the agency’s ability to take proactive…

Between August 31 and September 3 the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition will be held in Los Angeles, California. Several members from the VIEWS team will present and discuss the conference theme “Rights and Responsibilities in an Age of Mis- and Disinformation.” See the full program here. Time and Location Session Presentation Authors…