“POLARIZATION AND CONFLICT”

General PAC Meeting

           Gaillac (France)

           June 7-9, 2007

“Conference sponsored by the Community Sixth Framework Programme through Polarization and Conflict Project CIT-2-CT-2004-506084”

 

Program        
Thursday 7 June
Summer Meeting
14.30-15.45

“Bullying or Buying? State Extractive Capacity, Public Spending, and Civil Peace, 1961–2001” by Hanne Fjelde (Uppsala University & Centre for the Study of Civil War) and Indra de Soysa (Norwegian University of Science and Technology & Centre for the Study of Civil War)

15.45-16.00
Break
16.00-17.15

"Gender Equality, good Governance, and Peace" by  Margit Bussmann (University of Konstanz)

17.15- 18.30
“The Roles of Foreign Aid and Education in the War on Terror” by Jean-Paul Azam (University of Toulouse- ARQADE       and IDEI-) and Véronique Thelen (University of Toulouse-ARQADE)
19.30
Wine Tasting training session at cellar
Friday 8
 
09.00-10.15

“Do Small States Get More Federal Monies? Myth and Reality About the US Senate Malapportionment” by Valentino Larcinese (London School of Economics and STICERD), Leonzio Rizzo (University of Ferrara and Catholic University) and Cecilia Testa (Royal Holloway University of London).

10.15-11.30  

“Feigning Weakness” by Branislav L. Slantchev (University of California, San Diego)

11.30-11.45
Coffee Break
11.45-13.00
“Identity, Dignity and Taboos: Beliefs as Assets” by Roland Benabou (Princeton University, NBER, CEPR and IZA), and Jean Tirole (Université de Toulouse and MIT).
13.00-14.30
Lunch

14.30-15.45

 “Support in an Asymmetric Social Dilemma: A Behavioral Game-Theoretic Approach” by Jeroen Weesie, Sonja Vogt, Vincent  Buskens and Werner Raub (ICS, Utrecht University)

15.45-16.00

Break
16.00-17.15
“Polarization, Fractionalization and Conflict” by Joan Esteban (IAE-CSIC) and Debraj Ray (NYU).
17.15-18.30
“A Global Risk Assessment Model for Civil Wars” by Nicolas Rost (UNHCR) and Gerald Schneider (Konstanz University).
20.30
Gala Dinner at Chateau de Salettes

Saturday 9

 

09.00-10.15

“Economic Deprivation and Civil War Events:  A Disaggregated Study of Liberia“ by Håvard Hegre (Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW), International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Gudrun Østby (CSCW, PRIO & University of Oslo) Clionadh Raleigh (CSCW, PRIO & University of Colorado at Boulder)

10.15-10.30

 Break
10.30-11.45
 “Identity Polarization and Conflict? State Building in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana” by Ragnhild Nordås (Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW), International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)).
 

Afternoon Visit to a Winery