Programme for the ENCoRe Network Meeting
Barcelona, 1-2 October 2015
Day 1 October 2015
9:30 – 11:10 Academic Panel I
Adam Scharpf, Regimes, Rivalry, and Repression in Counterinsurgency Wars.
Gerald Schneider, The Multi-Level Sanction Paradox: Economic Coercion by the EU and the United
States in Comparison.
Sophia Hatz, When does Coercion Provoke? Experimental Evidence in the Context of the IsraelPalestine Conflict.
Felix Haass, The Political Economy of Foreign Aid, Power-Sharing Cabinets and Post-Conflict
Political Development.
11:10 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:10 Academic Panel II
Halvard Buhaug, Mihai Croicu, Hanne Fjelde and Nina von Uexkull, Climate, Agriculture and Armed
Conflict in Asia and Africa 1989-2014.
Sebastian Ziaja, What’s the beef with fried chicken? Local Exposure to Globalization and Domestic
Conflict in Africa.
Seraina Ruegger and Lars Erik Cederman, Explaining the Causes of Irredentist Violence.
Ursula E. Daxecker and Brandon Prins, Financing Rebellion: Piracy as a Rebel Group Funding
Strategy in African and East Asian Conflicts.
13:10 – 14:10 Lunch
14:10– 15:10 Keynote Lecture:Shanker Satyanath,Using Individual Data to Understand the Logic of
Political Repression.
15:10– 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:50 Academic Panel III
Lars-Erik Cederman, Simon Hug and Julian Wucherpfennig, Autonomy, secession and conflict: a
strategic model.
Hanne Fjelde and Desirée Nilsson, Falling to Pieces: Battlefield Outcomes and Rebel Movement
Fragmentation.
Bert Ingelaere and Marijke Verpoorten, Trust in the Aftermath of Mass Violence: Insights from
Large-N Life Stories.
Boban Petrović and Janko Međedović, Two forms of radicalization: Militant Extremists Mind Set as
a conservative ideology mediated by Ethos of conflict.
16:50 – 17:15 Break
17:15– 18:15 Keynote Lecture: Mathias Thoenig, Networks in Conflict Theory and Evidence from
the Great War of Africa.
18:30 – 20:00 Working Group Meeting
20:30 Dinner
Day 2 October 2015
9:30 – 11:10
Academic Panel IV: Parallel Session 1
Sebastian Schutte, Introducing the RMS System for Conducting Large-Scale Reimbursed Surveys
Through SMS with an Application to India.
Daphna Canetti, Aviad Rubin, Ibrahim Khateeb, Carly Wayne, Framing Conflict – The Role of Conflict
Perceptions in Attitudes towards Reconciliation.
Hannes Mueller and Christopher Rauh, Predicting Civil Wars with Newspaper Text.
Christoph Trinn and Thomas Wencker, The Power of Law. Power Laws, the Rule of Law, and the
Prevention of Violent Conflicts.
Academic Panel IV: Parallel Session 2
Dragana Vidovic, State and Social Movements: Losing the Support, Attracting the Masses.
Ohad Shaked, The Different Effect of Simulated Virtual Intergroup - Contact on Political Attitudes
Depending on the Participant's Political Ideology.
Suso B. Baleato and Nils B. Weidmann, Digital Discrimination? Ethnicity and Internet Access in a
Global Perspective.
Stefano Costalli and Andrea Ruggeri, The long-term Electoral Legacies of Civil War of Africa.
15:30 – 16:50 Academic Panel III
11:10 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:10 Academic Panel V
Carl von Schweinitz& Philipp Hunziker,Imputed Identities: New Spatial Data on Ethnicity in Africa.
Annerose Nisser and Nils B. Weidmann, Ethnic Salience in a Post-Conflict Blogosphere.
Nicholas Sambanis, MichaGermann and Andreas Schädel, A New Data Set on Self-Determination
Movements.
Katerina Tkacova, Ethnically Motivated Terrorism and Civil Wars.
13:10 – 14:10 Lunch
14:10 – 15:10 Keynote Lecture: Jacob Shapiro, Suicide Vests and Spreadsheets: Why Terrorists
Need Bureaucracy and What That Means for the Rest of Us.
15:10 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:50 Academic Panel IV
Sinem Arslan, Why Negotiate in Favourable Conditions: Transnational Dimensions of Peace
Negotiation.
Margit Bussmann and Levke Aduda, Mediation and the Dynamics of Civilian Victimization in Civil
Wars.
Constantin Ruhe, Agreement Without Peace or Agreement with Peace for Some Time? Reevaluating
the Mediation Dilemma.
Jessica Di Salvatore, Criminal Violence and Peacekeeping – A Complex Nexus.
16:50 – 17:20 Break
17:20 – 19:00 Working Group Meetings
20:30 Dinner