3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference on
Order, Conflict and Violence
Harvard-Yale-MIT
Yale University
April 18-19, 2008
Room 119, 8 Prospect Place
New Haven, Connecticut
**Please note change in venue**
Conference Program (download)
Friday April 18
8.30 – 9am. Registration and Continental Breakfast
9 am – 10.30am. Panel 1- State Building and State Authority
Ryan Sheely (Yale University)
“The Micro-dynamics of State Authority in Africa”Andrew Radin (MIT)
“Better the Devil You Know: Third Party State-building After Conflict”Jeremy Allouche (MIT)
“The nation state confluence and conflict in post soviet and post colonial countries – Ivory Coast and Tajikistan as ‘non-nation’ conflict cases”Ahmed Saber Mahmud (John Hopkins University) & Juan F. Vargas (UCLA)
“The Politics of 'Resource Boom'"
Faculty Discussant: Matt Kocher, Yale University
Student Discussant: Adi Greif, Yale University
10.30am – 12pm. Panel 2 - Individual Dynamics
Stephen Shewfelt (Yale University)
“Forced Migrants and Those Left Behind”Yuhki Tajima (Harvard University)
“The Effects of Conflict on Economic Reintegration of Former Combatants: Counter-Insurgency and Access to Capital”Alex Fattal (Harvard University)
“FARC Demobilization: Where Military Intelligence, Marketing and Humanitarianism Meet”
Faculty Discussant: Elisabeth Wood, Yale University
Student Discussant: Paul Kenny, Yale University
12– 2pm. Lunch Break
2– 3.30pm. Panel 3- Postwar Landscapes
Regina Bateson (Yale University)
“Violent Peace: Exploring the Causes of Post-Conflict Violence”Peter J. Verovsek (Yale University)
“Haunted by the Past: A Conceptual Understanding of the Politics of Memory Based on Postwar Italy and Slovenia”Kedron Thomas (Harvard University) & Peter Benson (Yale University)
“Dangers of Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala: Gangs, Electoral Politics, and Structural Violence”
Faculty Discussant: Keith Darden, Yale University
Student Discussant: Cory McCruden, Yale University
3.30-5pm. Panel 4- Panel on Unusual Methods for the Study of Violence
Jen Ziemke (University of Wisconsin)
“Spatial Methods”José Luis Ledesma (Yale University & EUI):
“Archival Methods”
7pm. Group dinner at Scoozzi
(1104 Chapel St, New Haven)
Saturday April 19
10 – 10.30am – Continental Breakfast
10.30am – 12pm. Panel 5- Africa
Christine Cheng (Yale University & Oxford University)
“Extralegal Groups and the Rubber Sector in Liberia”Matthew Kustenbauder (Yale University)
“Advantages and Limits of Protracted Low Intensity Civil War: The Case of Northern Uganda”Austin Kilroy (MIT)
“Are the spatial configurations of cities in the developing world contributing to urban insecurity? – A case study of Bamako, Mali”Janet Lewis (Harvard University)
“Inequality and Conflict in Uganda”
Faculty Discussant: Nicholas Sambanis, Yale University
Student Discussant: Nathaniel Cogley, Yale University
12-2pm. Lunch Break
2-3.30pm. Panel 6- Dynamics of Conflict
Omar Wasow (Harvard University)
“What Effect Did Police Response Have on Urban Riot Severity?”Richard Nielsen (Harvard University)
“Policing Ethnic Conflict”Meghan Lynch (Yale University)
“The Micro-dynamics of Escalating Violence”Jen Ziemke (University of Wisconsin)
“From Battles to Massacres: Explaining the patterns of civil war abuse in Angola, 1961-2002”
Faculty Discussant: Monica Toft, Harvard University
Student Discussant: Leslie Hough, Yale University
3.30-4.30pm. Final Roundtable
Keith Darden (Yale University)
Stathis Kalyvas (Yale University)
Nicholas Sambanis (Yale University)
Monica Toft (Harvard University)
Elisabeth Wood (Yale University)
Note: presentations should not exceed 12 minutes to leave enough time for discussion
For more information, please contact:
Laia Balcells
Conference Student
Coordinator