“POLARIZATION AND CONFLICT”

  PAC Winter Meeting

 

          

Palma de Mallorca, December 10-11, 2007

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

 

Program        
MONDAY 10
 
09.00-10.00

The polarization of politics and society in multiparty democracies: discrepancy between political platforms and societal preferences on ethnic integration policy in the Netherlands

Annemarije Oosterwaal (Utrecht University / ICS)

 

René Torenvlied (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

 

10.00-11.00

Self-Enforcing Norms and Efficient Non-Cooperative Collective Action in the Prevision of Public Goods”

Kai A. Konrad (WZB and Free University of Berlin)

Wolfgang Leininger (University of Dortmund
11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-12.30

Inequality and a Repeated Joint Project

Olivier Dagnelie (Institut d’Anàlsi Econòmica-CSIC)

12.30-13.30

Feigning Weakness

Branislav L. Slantchev (University of California, San Diego)
13.30- 15.00
Lunch

                   

15.00- 16.00

  

Globalization and Terrorism: The Perpetrators´ Motives in a Dyadic  Perspective

Gerald Schneider (University of Konstanz)

Iris Stengel (University of Konstanz)

                  
16.00- 17.00
 

Population Pressure, Inequality and Political Violence: A Disaggregated Study of Indonesian Provinces, 1990–2003

Gudrun Østby (University of Oslo/ CSCW, PRIO)

Henrik Urdal (CSCW, PRIO)

Mansoob Murshed (Institute for Social Studies, the Hague)

Zulfan Tadjoeddin (Institute for Social Studies, the Hague) 

17.00-17.15
Coffee Break
17.15-18.15

Foliage and Fighting: Forest resources and the onset, duration, and location of civil war

Siri Camilla Aas Rustad (Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO)

Jan Ketil Rød (NTNU & Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO)

Wenche Larsen (Norwegian U. of Science and Technology, NTNU)

Nils Petter Gleditsch (Centre for the Study of Civil War,PRIO & NTNU)

 

21.00  
Dinner

         TUESDAY 11

 
09.00-10.00

A Cultural Theory of Limited Uprising

Jean-Paul Azam (Toulouse School of Economics (ARQADE and IDEI))

Zié Ballo (Institut Universitaire de France and IDEI)

Lorenzo Rocco (University of Padua)

               
                 10.00-11.00

Technological Cooperation Between Countries Against a Terrorist Threat

Sylvain Baumann (CERENE, University of Le Havre)

11.00-11.30
Coffee Break
11.30-12.30

Party polarization and electoral accountability

Cecilia Testa (Royal Holloway University of London)

12.30-13.30

Roots and Fruits of Democracy: Inequality, Violence in the Democratic Transition and Rule of Law

Matteo Cervellati (University of Bologna, IAE and IZA)

Piergiuseppe Fortunato (DESA UN New York)

Uwe Sunde (IZA, University of Bonn)

13.30-15.00

Lunch

15.00-16.00

Land Redistribution and Guerrilla Warfare

Giacomo De Luca (University of Namur)

Petros G. Sekeris (University of Namur)

16.00-17.00

Can Polarization benefit civil society? Re-defining the concept about Cleavage versus Issue

Klaus Jurgens (Bilkent University)