Program

Program of the Annual GROW-Net Conference on “Disaggregating Civil War: Transitions, Governance and Intervention” in Zurich, September 18-20, 2008

!!! UPDATED PROGRAM (Sep 16, 08) !!!

Thursday, Sep 18

20:00 Dinner Restaurant Frieden, 8pm

Accommodation: Hotel du Theatre

Friday, Sep 19

Transportation to the conference site Hotel Uto Kulm
(connection Zurich main station - Hotel Uto Kulm: S10, 9:06am, track 2)

09:50 Cederman, L.-E.: Welcoming remarks
10:00 Mack, A.: Introductory remarks on the study of civil wars

Panel 1: Regime transition and civil war

10:30 Autocratic transitions and democratization (Gleditsch, K.S. & Choung, Jinhee Lee)
11:00 Democratization and civil war (Mansfield, E.D. & Snyder, J.)
11:30 Discussion (Ward, M.)

12:30 Lunch at Hotel Restaurant Uto Kulm

Panel 2: Governance of divided societies and civil war

14:00 Understanding ethno-nationalist conflict: From factors to actors (Cederman, L.-E., Wimmer, A. & Min, B.)
14:30 Power-sharing and civil conflict (Gates, S. & Strøm, K.)
15:00 Early Conflict prevention in ethnic conflicts, 1990-1998: A new dataset (Öberg, M., Möller, F., and Wallensteen, P.)
15:30 - Coffee break -
16:00 Issue Indivisibility, Nationalism and Civil War Recurrence (Wucherpfennig, J.)
16:30 Discussion (Hug, S.)
17:30 End

18:00 GROW-Net business meeting

19:30 Dinner at Hotel Uto Kulm

Accommodation: Conference Hotel Uto Kulm

Saturday, Sep 20

Panel 3: Intervention in civil war

09:00 Into the lion's den: Local responses to UN Peacekeeping (Dorussen, H. & Gizelis, I.)
09:30 Third-party intervention as a cause of escalated violence against minorities (Grigoryan, A.)
10:00 Aid, mind and hearts in Afghanistan (Zürcher, C. & Böhnke, Jan R.)
10:30 - Coffee break -
11:00 Discussion (Mack, A.)

12:00 Lunch

Panel 4: Methods to study civil war

13:30 Ethnic Polarzation, Ethnic Salience, and Civil War (Bhavnani, R.)
14:00 From Rags to Riches: The economics of deprivation, conflict and the welfare state (Rohner, D.)
14:30 Spatial-temporal modeling of civil war: The example of Bosnia (Weidmann, N.B. & Ward, M.)
15:00 - Coffee break -
15:30 Discussion (Gleditsch, K. S.)

Panel 5: Data sources

16:30 Disaster Dataset (Buhaug, H. & Rød, J.K.)
16:40 Ethnic Power Relations (incl. GIS) (Cederman, L.-E., Wimmer, A. & Wucherpfennig, J.)
16:50 Peacekeeping Data (Dorussen, H.)
17:00 Non-State Actor Dataset (Gleditsch, K.S.)
17:10 Discussion
17:20 End

19:30 Dinner at Hotel Uto Kulm

Accommodation: Conference Hotel Uto Kulm