“Polarization and Conflict”
Winter School and General PAC Meeting

Córdoba
November 22-25, 2006

Conference sponsored by the Community Sixth Framework Programme through Polarization and Conflict Project CIT-2-CT-2004-506084, with the support of the Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados de Andalucía (IESA).

Program
Students' list
Participants' list
Wed 22
Winter School
9.00-10.00
“Introduction: Polarization and Conflict” by Joan Esteban (Instituto de Análisis Económico-CSIC)
10.00-11.30
“Deprivation and Social Exclusion” by Conchita d’Ambrosio (Bocconi Univerisity)
11.30-11.45
Coffee Break
11.40-13.15
“Theories of Conflict: An Economist’s View” by Joan Esteban (Instituto de Análisis Económico, CSIC)

13.15-15.15
Lunch
15.15-16.45
“Theories of Conflict: A Polsci’s View” by Gerald Schneider (Konstanz University)
16.45-17.00
Break
17.00-18.30
“Civil Wars in Africa” by Jean Paul Azam (Université de Toulouse)
18.30-19.30
“Current Trends in Armed Conflict” by Nils Petter Gleditsch (PRIO-Oslo)
Thu 23
PAC Meeting sessions
9.00-10.30
Testing Models of Distributive Politics Using Exit Polls to Measure Voter Preferences and Partisanship” by Valentino Larcinese (STICERD-LSE), J. Snyder (MIT) and C. Testa (University of London).
10.30-12.00
“Ethnic Diversity and Human Rights Violations” by Katrin Kirschmann (Konstanz University) and Gerald Schneider (Konstanz University).
12.00-12.15
Coffee Break
12.15-13.45
Students Presentations
13.45-15.15
Lunch
15.15-15.45
Presentation of Workpackages 1 and 2.
15.45-17.15
Islam’s Bloody Innards: Religion and Political Terror, 1980–2000” by Indra de Soysa, (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway) and R. Nordas (CSCW and PRIO).
17.15-17.30
Coffee Break
17.30-19.00
The Armed Peace: A Punctuated-Equilibrium Theory of War” by Bahar Leventoglu (Stony Brook University) and Branislav L. Slantchev (University of California, San Diego).
21.00
Dinner
Fri 24
 
9.00-10.30
“The Implementation of Polarized Policies” by René Torenvlied (Utrecht University) and Asya Zhelyazkova (Utrecht University).
10.30-12.00
Strategic Risk, Civil War and Intervention” by Sylvain Chassang (MIT) and Gerard Padró i Miquel (Stanford University).
12.00-12.15
Coffee Break
12.15-13.45
Microcom Project Presentation by Julie Litchfield (University of Sussex)
Students Presentations
13.45-15.15
Lunch
15.15-15.45
Presentation of Workpackages 3 and 4.
15.45-17.15
Democratic Waves? Global Patterns of Democratization, 1800-2000” by Scott Gates (PRIO, Oslo and NTNU) and Kaare Strøm (University of California, San Diego and NTNU).
17.15-17.30
Coffee Break
17.30-19.00
All in Good Time”, A. Heifetz (The Open University of Israel) and Clara Ponsatí (IAE-CSIC, Barcelona).
21.00
Dinner
Sat 25
 
9.00-10.30
Consensual and Conflictual Democratization “ by Matteo Cervellati (Università di Bologna), Piergiuseppe Fortunato (United Nations Desa) and Uwe Sunde (IZA Bonn).
10.30-12.00
Does Corruption Undermine Political Systems?” by Håvard Hegre (PRIO, Oslo) and Hanne Fjelde (Uppsala University)
12.00-12.15
Coffee Break
12.15-13.45
Similarity and Heuristics in Consumer Expenditue” by Itzhak Gilboa (Tel-Aviv University), A. Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania) and D. Schmeidler (Tel-Aviv University)