Workshop on Institutional legacies of violent conflict

Project workshop

Workshop on Institutional legacies of violent conflict

Thu, 12 May 2022 – Fri, 13 May 2022

The UNU-WIDER project Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict holds a workshop in Helsinki on May 12-13, 2022. 

The workshop brings together around 40 experts working in conflict analysis, peacebuilding, and related fields to present working papers they are currently completing as part of the project. The meeting is an opportunity for the project contributors to share, receive comments on, discuss, and debate their work in progress.

The two-day workshop includes six thematic sessions: Legacies of the Second World War, Peacebuilding and economic recovery, Democracy and social movements, Socio-political legacies, Armed groups, and Long-term effects.

The UNU-WIDER project Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict seeks to increase understanding among policymakers, academics and practitioners of how institutional dynamics that develop during violent conflicts shape state-building and economic development trajectories in the long run.

Workshop programme. 

See a list of collaborating researchers and research paper topics here.

TEAM

Focal point: Patricia Justino

Project support: Iina Kuuttila

Communications: Eeva Nyyssönen

PROGRAMME

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Thu, 12 May 2022 – Fri, 13 May 2022
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6b, Helsinki, Finland
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    Working Paper
    Indirect rule: armed groups and customary chiefs in eastern DRC

    This paper leverages a novel panel dataset covering the histories of 306 chiefs and 256 episodes of village governance and taxation by armed groups in 106 villages in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in order to analyse the relationship...

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    The legacy of Mexico’s Drug War on youth political attitudes

    We investigate the impact of childhood exposure to organized criminal violence on sociopolitical attitudes in Mexico, where an entire generation of youths has been raised amid the country’s most violent conflict over the past century. We fielded an...

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    Welfare losses, preferences for redistribution, and political participation

    This paper studies the effect of austerity on forms of political participation—including voting, appealing for reform, and peaceful protesting—and the role of preferences for redistribution in shaping the relationship between individual exposure to...

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    The political legacies of wartime resistance

    Can past wartime experiences other than violence have long-term effects on political attitudes and behaviours? How are these legacies sustained across generations and beyond those who directly experienced war?We explore these questions in Italy, a...

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    Windows of peace: the effect of ceasefires on economic recovery

    While much of the literature studies causes and consequences of war, the reverberations of peace have rarely been studied. By focusing on the universe of ceasefire agreements since 1993, we study the causal effect of peace on economic recovery using...

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    The violent legacy of fascism

    We still have limited knowledge about the long-term effects of fascism on European democracies. European countries experienced cycles of violence between the 1960s and 1980s. Can such violence be explained by legacies of mobilization during fascism...

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    Power, institutions, and state-building after war

    I examine whether and how the means through which a civil war ends affects the success of a country’s state-building strategy after conflict. I show that two distinct modes of conflict termination—military victories and negotiated settlements—lead to...

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    War violence, nationalism, and party support

    Under what conditions can legacies of past violence shape political behaviour? We propose a theory of how war victimization defines attitudes over the long run, and how these can be activated by changes in the political environment. We argue that...

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    'It's our turn (not) to learn': the pitfalls of education reform during post-war institutional transformation

    In this study, we investigate the relationship between education reform, institutional legacies of inequality, and changing political institutions in a poor, conflict-affected country. Burundi experienced a dramatic change in ethnic power relations...

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    Legacies of victimization

    How does wartime victimization shape victims’ political attitudes in the long run? We argue that violence increases politics’ salience to victimized communities, which in turn increases these communities’ political awareness and evaluation of...

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    Why are Mexican politicians being assassinated?

    When does organized crime resort to assassinating politicians? In narcocracies, criminal groups co-opt political elites through bribery in exchange for protection to traffic illegal drugs. When criminal groups compete, they may also resort to...

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    The legacies of authoritarian repression on civil society

    In this paper we examine the legacies on civil society of routine repressive activities carried out by authoritarian regimes, such as the targeting of opposition organizations. We focus on participation in voluntary associations in post-authoritarian...

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    The loser’s long curse: electoral consequences of a class conflict

    This paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years. We revisit the Finnish Civil War of 1918 and first trace out the impact of local conflict exposure on electoral outcomes over a quarter-century...

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    The legacy of church–state conflict

    A burgeoning literature on repression against civilians argues that exposure to violence changes victims’ identities by strengthening attachment to the in-group and creates downstream effects for political and social behaviour that persist across...

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    Elite murder and popular resistance

    Does repression of opposition elites prevent resistance against foreign-imposed regimes? On the one hand, elimination of elites can undermine the opposition’s capacity for anti-regime resistance. Yet killing opposition elites deprives the new regime...

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    Hidden hostility: donor attention and political violence

    Political violence is a worldwide problem that has been on the rise over the past decade. The international dimension of domestic repression and dissent is a particularly relevant factor yet surprisingly understudied. In particular, governments that...

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