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Techniques of violence in civil war

Final program now available (Updated)

Papers | Program

13:00

Welcome - Scott Gates, PRIO/CSCW

 

 

13:05

Introduction - Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University

The range of techniques/What we know and don’t know

 

 

Violence against Civilians, Panel I

13:30

 

 

 

13:45

 

 

14:00

 

14:15

Michael Spagat/Jorge Restrepo, University of London

Techniques of conflict in the Colombian Civil War

 

Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University

Techniques of violence in the Sierra Leone Conflict

 

Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University

Techniques of violence in Greece and Vietnam

 

Selma Belaala, IEP, Paris

Techniques of violence in the case of the Algerian civil war (1991-2003): Violence as a technique for mobilizing civilians against the enemy

 

 

14:30

 

Discussion: Robert Bates, Harvard University

15:00

Coffee break

 

Violence against Civilians, Panel II

15:30

 

 

15:45

 

 

16:00

Lisa Hultman, Uppsala University

Civilians as Pawns in the Game of Civil War?

 

Stephanie McWhorter, UC San Diego

Killing the Citizenry: Understanding the Correlates of State Violence

 

Erin M Simpson, Harvard University

Government Counter-insurgency Strategies in Colombia and Peru

 

 

16:15

 

Discussion: Robert Bates

16:45

Coffee break

 

 

Child Soldiers

17:00

 

 

17:15

Scott Gates, PRIO

Recruiting Child Soldiers

 

Susan Shepler, UC Berkeley

The Social and Cultural Context of Child Soldiering in Sierra Leone

 

 

17:30-18:00

Discussion: TBA


Workshop on Techniques of Violence in Civil War

21 August 2004

 

Torture, Mutilation and Sexual Violence

9:30

 

 

 

9:45

 

 

10:00

Jago Salmon, Humboldt University

Massacre and Mutilation in the Lebanese Forces: Understanding Armed Groups through their Use of Violence

 

Darius Rejali, Reed College

Torture and Democracy: Singing the World Electric

 

Elisabeth Wood, Yale University (TBC)

Sexual Violence during War: Explaining Variation

 

 

10:15

Discussion: Greg Reichberg/Inger Skjelsbæk PRIO 

11:00

Coffee break

 

 

Kidnapping and Suicide Bombing

11:30

 

 

11:45

 

 

12:00

 

 

12:15

 

Mauricio Rubio, Universidad Carlos Tercero, Madrid

Kidnapping and Armed Conflict in Colombia

 

Luca Ricolfi/Paolo Campana (paper available but no presentation), Università di Torino

The suicide missions in the Palestinian area: a new database

 

Jon Elster, Columbia University

Kidnapping and Hostage Taking as Techniques

 

Michael Biggs, University of Illinois

Hunger Strikes by Irish Republicans, 1916-1923

 

 

12:30

Discussion: Diego Gambetta

 

 

13:00

Lunch

 

 

14:30-

16:00

Roundtable discussion