Peace Science Society Workshop:
Advancing Measurement in the Study of Conflict and Political Violence
Thursday, November 8, 2018
University of Texas at Austin
Organizers: Johannes Karreth, Elizabeth Menninga, Rob Williams
Schedule
This schedule refers to clusters of projects; please find cluster assignments at the end of this document. The workshop takes place at the San Jacinto Hall Conference Center, Room 204.9:00 Light refreshments
9:20-10:00 Brief introductions of the workshop, its goals, participants, and projects
10:00-11:30 Cluster-specific workshops
11:30-12:00 Group meeting
12:00 Lunch
1:15-1:45 Q&A with Michael Colaresi, co-editor of International Interactions
1:45-2:30 Cluster-specific writing sessions
2:30-2:45 Coffee break and light refreshments
2:45-3:15 Concluding group meeting
Project clusters
Cluster 1
- Kyosuke Kikuta: A New Geography of Civil War: A Machine Learning Approach to Measuring the Zones of Armed Conflicts
- Juan Tellez and Howard Liu: Transportation networks and insurgent tactics
- Rob Williams: Measuring State Capacity at the Local Level
Cluster 2
- Megan Stewart: Dimensions of Rebel Governance
- Daniel Hill and Sabrina Karim: The Study of Gender and Women in Cross-National Political Science Research: Rethinking Concepts and Measurement
- K. Chad Clay: Using Expert Surveys to Measure Human Rights: An Introduction to the HRMI Civil & Political Rights Metrics
- Amelia Hoover Green: Multiple systems estimation of civilian casualties as dependent variables: The case of El Salvador
Cluster 3
- Eric Dunford: Switching It Up or More of the Same? Measuring Tactical Adaptation by Militant Organizations
- Eleonora Mattiacci: Measuring Volatility in Foreign Policy
- Bailee Donahue: Measuring economic adaptation overtime in sanctioned countries
- Johannes Karreth: Measuring IGO engagement in conflict countries
Cluster 4
- Susanna Campbell: Measuring Peace in War
- Kaitlyn Webster: A New Empirical Approach to Estimating Civil War Onset and Escalation
- Elizabeth Menninga: Tainting the Well or Priming the Pump: Cooperation in Civil Wars