Between June 26-28 the 2023 Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference was held at the University of Bologna. VIEWS researcher Paola Vesco presented The underreported death toll of wars: a probabilistic reassessment from a structured expert elicitation co-authored with Håvard Hegre, David Randall and Stina Högblad. David Randahl is also one of the authors of Explaining Restraint in Civil War: Predicting Counterfactuals and Identifying Causes, which was presented by Corinne Bara.

Another paper by David Randahl will be presented during the ESRA 2023 conference that will take place July 17-21 at the University of Milan-Bicocca in Milan, Italy. The theme of this years European Survey Research Association conference is Survey research in times of crisis: Challenges, opportunities, and new directions. The paper will be presented on Wednesday afternoon and is called Democrats Under-report and Republicans Over-report: What this Means for Measuring Public Opinion on Controversial Political Topics and will be presented by co-author Sophia Hatz.