The Geographic Representations Of War-net conducts a two-day workshop in Oslo on February 10-11. The research paper presentations on Friday February 10 have been moved from Operasjonssentralen at the Red Cross to the adjacent Henry Dunant room. Saturday February 11 is reserved for administrative discussions with a smaller group.

GROW-net

The Geographic Representations Of War network consists of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, the Centre for the Study of Civil War at PRIO, the University of Essex and the Ludvig-Maximilian-University in Munich. GROW-Net aims at uncovering the causal mechanisms that generate civil violence within relevant geographic and historical configurations. The current literature suffers from its focus on national-level attributes while at the same time neglecting historical and geographical contexts. To overcome these limitations, the network has adopted three guiding principles: First, both theoretically and empirically, to move below the national level and focus on regions and groups. Second, to analyze cross-border linkages, i.e. refugee flow and external support for peripheral groups. Third, to endogenize institutions and identities, which often depend on conflict processes.

Workshop Location

NEWS! The workshop has on Friday been moved from Operasjonssentralen at the Red Cross to the adjacent Henry Dunant  room. The Red Cross is located right next to PRIO. For information about how to find PRIO/the Red Cross click here. The workshop venue entrance is located in the backyard behind PRIO. You enter an iron gate, and will see the entrance when you are inside. To reach the Henry Dunant room in stead of Operasjonssentralen, you simply walk straight forward in stead if turning left once you are inside the building. Saturday's workshop discussion will still be conducted in Operasjonssentralen.

The workshop hotel is Radisson SAS Plaza Hotel Oslo.  When you land at Gardermoen, take the airport train in to Oslo Central Station. At the station you do not need a taxi. Walk inside the station, turn right up the escalator, and keep walking the same direction right through the station – you will see the tall hotel when you exit on the other side.

Workshop Program

The  workshop program can be viewed here. Friday 10 other researchers are also invited, and there will be paper presentations from 09:15 to 18:00, followed by a dinner at 20:00 at restaurant Arakataka. Saturday 11 is reserved for the core group, which will meet for administrative discussions from 09:15 to 18:00 followed by dinner at SüdØst at 19:30.  

Workshop Papers

These are the available workshop papers:

D. Cunningham, K. S. Gleditsch & I. Salehyan	Dyadic Interactions and Civil War Duration
M. Austvoll	Structure and Power in Transnational Ethnic Affinities: An Application to Foreign Interventions in Civil Conflict
H. Dorussen & H. Ward	Inter Governmental Organizations and the Kantian Peace - A Network Perspective
J. Ziemke	How Violence Can Sputter Along and then Surge: Understanding the Logic of Escalation in the Angolan War
C. M. Ormhaug	Health Consequences of Civil War
L.-E. Cederman, J. K. Rød & N. Weidmann	Geo-Referencing of Ethnic Groups: Creating a New Dataset
H. Mehlum, E. Miguel, R. Torvik (& K. O. Moene)	Instrumenting and Clustering - the Case of Poverty and Crime Across Bavaria (and Afghanistan)

   

Workshop Participants

The list of workshop participants can be viewed here.

Previous GROW-net Meetings

September 15-17 2005 the GROW-net researchers met in Zürich: Mapping the Complexity of Civil Wars. March 7-8 2005 the GROW-net researchers met in La Jolla, California: Disaggregating the Study of Civil War and Transnational Violence.