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Cross-cutting Activities

Cross-cutting Activities

Led by Halvard Buhaug

Cross-cutting Activities encourage a conscious focus on a variety of disciplines and methods. This includes application of state-of-the-art statistical methods from economics and political science to conflict as well as to other social phenomena. It includes linking important theoretical developments outside conflict research per se - for example, in IR, gender studies, psychology and religion or international law and ethics - to the study of civil war. It also includes linking related policy areas (sanctions, health policy, migration/refugees) to study of peacemaking and peacebuilding.

Data management is another major cross-cutting issue. CSCW is a significant user of data on conflict and explanatory variables. We will also collect our own data, contributing to the creation of better and more nuanced conflict data on the basis of definitional critiques and innovation. Casualty figures and spacial relationships are among the early areas for work; another is studies of social polarization as undertaken in a new EU-funded network coordinated in Barcelona are much more uncertain and ambiguous. The complex interaction between aid and peace policy will be explored, for example, through close collaboration on the new Human Security Report, a project undertaken at the Liu Center for the Study of Global Issues, UBC.

Centre associates are grouped here for reasons of the themes of inquiry mentioned above, or because they benefit all Centre WGs by virtue of their disciplinary and methodological pluralism.

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Publications
Barakat, Bilal & Henrik Urdal, 2009. 'Breaking the Waves? Does Education Mediate the Relationship Between Youth Bulges and Political Violence?', Policy Research Working Paper. Washington, DC: .
Binningsbø, Helga Malmin; Tove Grete Lie & Scott Gates, 2006. 'Post-Conflict Justice and Sustainable Peace', presented at Polarization and Conflict Workshop, Nicosia, Cyprus, 26–29 April.
Buhaug, Halvard, 2007. 'The Future Is More than Scale: A Reply to Diehl and O'Lear', Geopolitics 12(1): 192–199, January-March.
Buhaug, Halvard; Scott Gates, Håvard Hegre & Håvard Strand, 2007. 'Global Trends in Armed Conflict'. Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Gardín, Carlos; Debraj Ray & Joan Esteban, 2007. 'An Extension of a Measure of Polarization, with an Application to the Income Distribution of Five OECD Countries', Journal of Economic Inequality 5(1): 1–19.
Gartzke, Erik & Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, 2006. 'Identity and Conflict: Ties that Bind and Differences that Divide', European Journal of International Relations 12(1): 53–87.
Gates, Scott & Aysegul Aydin, 2008. 'Rulers as Mass Murderers: Political Institutions and Human Insecurity' in Stephen M. Saideman & Marie-Joëlle Zahar, eds, Insecurity in Intra-State Conflicts: Governments, Rebels, and Outsiders. London: (72–95).
Gates, Scott & Simon Reich, 2009. 'Think Again: Child Soldiers', Foreign Policy, May.
Gates, Scott & Simon Reich, 2009. 'Sannheten om barnesoldater' [The Truth about Child Soldiers], Dagbladet , 12 June.
Gates, Scott & Simon Reich, 2010. 'Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States. Introduction' in Scott Gates & Simon Reich, eds, Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States. Pittsburgh, PA: (3–13).
Gates, Scott & Simon Reich, 2010. 'Conclusion: Children and Human Security' in Scott Gates & Simon Reich, eds, Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States. Pittsburgh, PA: (247–254).
Gates, Scott & Simon Reich, eds, 2010. Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States. Pittsburgh, PA.
Gates, Scott, 2010. 'Recruiting Children for Armed Conflict' in Scott Gates & Simon Reich, eds, Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States. Pittsburgh, PA: (77–92).
Gleditsch, Nils Petter & Halvard Buhaug, 2006. 'Slett ingen fred i verden' [A Peaceful World?], Aftenposten, 26 October.
Gleditsch, Nils Petter, 2009. 'Updating the Battle Deaths Dataset', presented at XXVI International Population Conference, Marrakech, 27 September.
Gleditsch, Nils Petter; Bethany Ann Lacina & Bruce M. Russett, 2006. 'The Declining Risk of Death in Battle', International Studies Quarterly 50(3): 673–680.
Hegre, Håvard, 2005. 'Polarization and Interstate Conflict', presented at Polarization and Conflict (PAC) Winter meeting, Milan, 16­–17 December.
Killicoat, Phillip, 2006. 'Weaponomics: The Economics of Small Arms', MA thesis at the Department of Economics, Department of Economics, Oxford University, UK. Supervisor: Håvard Hegre. Defended September.
Lacina, Bethany Ann & Nils Petter Gleditsch, 2005. 'Monitoring Trends in Global Combat: A New Dataset of Battle Deaths' in . (145–165).
Lacina, Bethany Ann, 2006. 'Explaining the Severity of Civil War', Journal of Conflict Resolution 50(2): 276–289.
Lektzian, David, 2003. 'Making Sanctions Smarter'. Oslo: .
Mouhleb, Naima, 2005. Review of Bjørn Erik Rasch, ed., 'Islamistisk terrorisme' in Babylon - tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika 3(2): 168–170.
Mouhleb, Naima, 2006. 'Autentisitet og konflikt i det post-koloniale Algerie' [Authenticity and Conflict in Post Colonial Algeria], Babylon - tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika 4(1): 76–83, 2006.
Nordås, Ragnhild, 2011. 'Sexual Violence in African Conflicts', CSCW Policy Brief 1, Oslo: PRIO.
Ormhaug, Christin Marsh, 2006. 'Democracy, Human Rights, and Demand for Small Arms in Latin America', presented at Polarization And Conflict conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, 26 April.
Østby, Gudrun & Henrik Urdal, 2010. 'Education and Civil Conflict: A Review of the Quantitative, Empirical Literature'.
Østby, Gudrun & Henrik Urdal, 2011. 'Education and Conflict: What the Evidence Says', CSCW Policy Brief 2, Oslo: PRIO.
Østby, Gudrun, 2004. 'Do Horizontal Inequalities Matter for Civil Conflict?', presented at Polarization and Conflict (PAC) Winter Meeting, Barcelona, 10–11 December.
Østby, Gudrun; Ragnhild Nordås & Jan Ketil Rød, 2006. 'Regional Inequalities and Civil Conflict in 21 Sub-Saharan Countries, 1986-2004', presented at the 47th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), San Diego, 22–25 March.
Østby, Gudrun; Ragnhild Nordås & Jan Ketil Rød, 2006. 'Regional Inequalities and Civil Conflict in 21 Sub-Saharan Countries, 1986-2004', presented at the workshop on Polarization and Conflict (PAC), Nicosia, Cyprus, 26–29 April.
Pugel, James, 2010. 'Disaggregating the Causal Factors Unique to Child Soldiering' in Scott Gates & Simon Reich, eds, Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States. Pittsburgh, PA: (160–182).
Rød, Jan Ketil; Lars-Erik Cederman & Halvard Buhaug, 2006. 'Modeling Ethinc Conflict in Center-Periphery Dyads', presented at Polarization and Conflict conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, 26–29 April.
Urdal, Henrik & Kristian Hoelscher, 2009. 'Urban Youth Bulges and Social Disorder: An Empirical Study of Asian and Sub-Saharan African Cities', Policy Research Working Paper. Washington, DC: .
Urdal, Henrik, 2011. 'Demographic Aspects of Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Armed Conflict' in United Nations, ed., Population Distribution, Urbanization, Internal Migration and Development: An International Perspective. New York: United Nations Population Division (243–263).